Bloomberg Gordon Sondland, the US ambassador to the European Union, on Tuesday cancelled his scheduled testimony before House impeachment investigators looking into President Donald Trump’s activities involving Ukraine. The State Department directed Sondland to cancel his scheduled testimony on Tuesday, according to a letter from his attorney. Robert Luskin, the lawyer representing Sondland, said his client was ready to appear ...

Bloomberg The blame game over the likely failure to reach a Brexit deal escalated, with Downing Street accusing German Chancellor Angela Merkel of making an agreement effectively impossible. The pound fell. According to a British official, Merkel told Prime Minister Boris Johnson that Northern Ireland must remain part of the EU’s customs union if he wants to secure a divorce ...

Bloomberg Russia’s government denied it has any troops in Mozambique, after reports that a Russian soldier was killed in the southern African country. “There are no Russian soldiers in Mozambique,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Tuesday in Moscow. Portuguese news agency Lusa reported that Mozambique received military equipment from Russia to help battle IS-linked insurgents. The support will assist ...