Bloomberg President Donald Trump promised a “major announcement” on the government shutdown as he and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi headed into a long holiday weekend with no sign their increasingly acrimonious standoff is any closer to an end. The president plans to renew his demand for a wall on the US border with Mexico, but also offer incentives for congressional ...

Bloomberg Hungarian labour unions are staging nationwide protests and threatening the first general strike since the end of communism to pressure Prime Minister Viktor Orban into repealing a controversial new law on overtime. Rallies were planned in Budapest and more than a dozen other cities on Saturday against what critics have dubbed the “slave law”, which allows companies to ask ...

Bloomberg The wife of missing ex-Interpol Chief Meng Hongwei has applied for asylum in France because she is scared for her life, Reuters reported, citing her lawyer. Grace Meng was followed by strangers, received suspicious phone calls and had her car license plates photographed by mysterious people, according to the report, which cited an interview she did with France Info’s ...