Bloomberg A US airstrike killed 11 suspected IS militants in southern Libya, US Africa Command said, its second reported raid in a week against the extremist group that once controlled a key coastal city. The strike was carried out around the town of Murzuq, the same location where a September 19 attack was assessed to have left eight extremists dead, ...

Bloomberg A private army linked to Russian President Vladimir Putin has begun fighting on the front lines of the Libyan war, according to people familiar with the matter, the latest projection of Russian power following a decisive military intervention in Syria. More than 100 mercenaries from the Wagner group headed by Yevgeny Prigozhin, also known as “Putin’s chef” for his ...

Bloomberg Britain’s top judges moved out of the Houses of Parliament a decade ago. The 11 Supreme Court justices declared their independence from the building across the road by delivering a stinging rebuke to Boris Johnson. The panel, sitting in its own building in Westminster, positioned itself as the ultimate arbiter in a constitutional clash and reasserted that parliament is ...