Bloomberg The death toll from an attack on an army post in eastern Mali rose to 54, making it one of the deadliest assaults on security forces since separatists and radical insurgents seized swathes of the nation’s north in 2012. The latest estimate of casualties was announced by government spokesman Yaya Sangare in a statement on Twitter. Reinforcements dispatched to ...

Bloomberg In the week Boris Johnson became British PM, two men in northeast England were jailed for throwing bricks through the office windows of their local member of parliament in a politically motivated attack. The lawmaker, Helen Goodman, voted to stay in the European Union. People in her district of Bishop Auckland voted overwhelmingly to leave and she says she ...

Bloomberg Alibaba Group Holding Ltd is deciding between launching a sharply reduced $10 billion Hong Kong share sale in November or delaying the deal till next year as global uncertainty mounts, people familiar with the matter say. China’s largest company is weighing its options for the city’s biggest first-time sale of stock since 2010, but the window for pulling off ...