Bloomberg Time is running out for 83-year-old Mahmoud Abbas. Foreign aid to the Palestinians has dropped nearly 80% over the past 10 years, the political outlook is bleak after a half-century of Israeli occupation and his people’s campaign for statehood risks sinking into irrelevance. To salvage his legacy, the Palestinian Authority (PA) president has called — again — for the ...

Bloomberg The Kremlin warned that time is fast running out to negotiate a fresh strategic nuclear weapons deal with the US before the current New START treaty expires. “There is no progress, there are no signals from the Americans about their readiness to start discussions” on replacing or extending the treaty, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, told reporters ...

Bloomberg A Bulgarian accused of spying for Russia who was freed on bail was allowed by a court to visit Moscow, where he received an award from President Vladimir Putin. Despite being barred from foreign travel as part of a $28,000 bail agreement two months ago, Nikolay Malinov was able to go to Russia on November 1, according to prosecutors. ...