Bloomberg As the partial US government shutdown enters a third day, lawmakers have left Washington for the Christmas holiday with no sign of urgency to resolve the fight over President Donald Trump’s demand for border wall money. Unlike shutdowns of the past, Congress and the White House aren’t racing to reopen the government. Offices of congressional leaders who are responsible ...

Bloomberg Suicide bombers struck the Libyan Foreign Ministry’s headquarters in Tripoli, killing three people, officials said, in the latest blow to efforts to stabilise the war-ravaged North African nation. Gunmen opened fire on the ministry and one of them blew himself up, the Foreign Ministry said. At least 18 others were wounded, Interior Minister Fathi Bashagha said in a televised ...

Bloomberg At least 43 people were killed and 10 injured after militants detonated a car bomb before storming government offices in a building in Afghan capital Kabul, said Wahid Majrooh, a spokesman of the nation’s Ministry of Public Health. The gunmen also took hostages in the building of the National Authority for Disabled People and Martyrs’ Families, said Najib Danish, ...