Now that Secretary of State John Kerry has become the highest-ranking American official to visit Hiroshima, the door has been opened for U.S. President Barack Obama to make a far more momentous decision to visit the site of the American atomic bombing during his visit to Japan next month. The president came close to such a visit in his …

The new Ukrainian cabinet, confirmed by the parliament on Thursday, is more interesting for the people it doesn’t include than for those it does. Ukraine’s experiment with bringing foreign reformers and private sector professionals into the government is now officially over, and it has failed. President Petro Poroshenko tapped his long-time protege and ally, former parliament speaker Volodymyr Hroisman to …

BLOOMBERG Saudi Arabian stocks led declines across most Gulf Arab equity markets as investors await the outcome of a gathering of major oil producing nations in Doha. The Tadawul All Share Index dropped 1.5 percent, the most in two weeks. Dubai’s DFM General Index lost 0.7 percent as the Bloomberg GCC 200 Index, which tracks the largest and most liquid …