Bloomberg The US condemned the Taliban’s launch of a new spring offensive in Afghanistan as the world’s biggest military power continues to pursue peace talks with militants in the war-torn country. Calling the Taliban move “reckless,” US Special Envoy on Afghan Reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad said on Twitter that the insurgents demonstrated their “indifference” to the peace demands of the Afghan ...

Bloomberg Secretary of State Michael Pompeo blamed China and Russia for spreading “disorder” in Latin America by funding failing development projects and supporting leaders such as Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, who the US insists must step down from power. Pompeo, speaking in Chile at the start of a three-day South American tour, said Beijing and Moscow have fuelled corruption and ...

Bloomberg Theresa May will stay on as British prime minister to get Brexit done, even if that means remaining in the job until the end of October, Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond said. May promised to step aside once the divorce agreement has been passed in parliament, so a new leader can take charge of the next phase of ...