Bloomberg A pipeline explosion north of Mexico City killed at least 66 people, confronting President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador with the biggest crisis since he took office pledging to crack down on graft and fuel theft. Petroleos Mexicanos said its specialists and local officials were working to deal with a fire caused by the illegal tap on the gasoline line ...

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 ...