Bloomberg Mark Esper, President Donald Trump’s nominee for defense secretary, said the US needs more bases “throughout the Indo-Pacific region” to counter China’s “significant technological advancements.” “Alternate operating locations” will be sought as the Pentagon works “to develop new concepts, build a distributed and resilient force posture and field new capabilities to counter these threats,” Esper, who had been serving ...

Bloomberg A meeting of chief Brexit negotiators was one of the most difficult encounters of the last three years, according to European officials, who are bracing for talks to become more hostile under the next British government. The EU side is weighing up possible concessions it could offer the UK to avoid a chaotic no-deal Brexit, according to European officials ...

Bloomberg Deputy PM Matteo Salvini said that a probe into a plot by Ukranians to kill him led to the seizure of an air-to-air missile in the northern city of Turin. Police detained an alleged neo-Nazi and two other suspects in an investigation into weapons trafficking that uncovered the missile, authorities said in a statement. “The secret services alerted me ...