Bloomberg U.K. unemployment rose for the first time in seven months and employers added far fewer jobs than forecast, suggesting the labor market is cooling. The number of people looking for work climbed by 21,000 to 1.7 million in the three months through February, the Office for National Statistics in London said on Wednesday. That left the jobless rate …

  Bloomberg A plan to expand a natural gas pipeline from Russia to Germany is driving a wedge into the European Union, with some eastern members feeling their needs are being overlooked by the richer and more energy-diversified west, the bloc’s top energy official said. The €10-billion Nord Stream 2 pipeline isn’t aligned with the principles of the bloc’s laws …

  Bloomberg Ukraine’s new finance minister said the next tranche of a delayed $17.5 billion International Monetary Fund loan could arrive as early as May. A mission from the Washington-based lender may visit within a month, said OleksandrDanylyuk, appointed April 14 after weeks of wrangling over a new government. Ukraine understands its IMF commitments and will implement a delayed increase …