Bloomberg US President Donald Trump met families of Japanese citizens abducted by North Korea, pledging to help solve an emotive decades-old issue that has been a major policy concern of PM Shinzo Abe’s government. After a meeting focused on trade and security in Tokyo, Trump and Abe met relatives of those taken captive, with Trump saying the two men were ...

Bloomberg Brexit upended Britain’s established political order in European Parliament elections, with both the ruling Conservatives and the main opposition Labour Party scoring their worst results in decades. Voters backed politicians with clear pro- and anti-European Union agendas, fuelling demands for a second referendum on one side of the divisive national debate, and a hard, no-deal split from the EU ...

Bloomberg Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz is on track to be ousted on Monday after his erstwhile coalition partners in the nationalist Freedom Party lined up behind a motion to dismiss him. The Freedom Party’s acting chairman, Norbert Hofer, told public broadcaster ORF that his group “will probably support” the no-confidence vote against Kurz and his cabinet that was expected to ...