The presidents of Ukraine and Belarus, the two countries most affected by the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, used the meltdown’s 30-year anniversary on Tuesday to make political statements. It looks like neither of them — nor Russian President Vladimir Putin — has drawn the right conclusions from the tragedy, which probably hastened the Soviet Union’s demise. Unit 4 of the …

  Britain is asking itself whether quitting the European Union would be good or bad — for Britain. President Barack Obama is advising Britain to stay — presumably because he thinks that would be good for the U.S. But what if Brexit would be good for Britain and the U.S. mainly because it would be good for Europe? I’m led …

  London / Reuters Barclays reported a worse than expected 33 percent slump in pretax profits for the first three months of the year, as the lender followed its US peers in reporting falling investment banking revenues in a weak global market environment. Barclays said first quarter pretax profits fell to £793 million ($1.15 billion), just below the average forecast …