BLOOMBERG US President Joe Biden will leave for Europe in a week to firm up ties with key Nato allies, including the UK, in the wake of the last month’s abortive uprising in Russia. Biden plans to hold talks with UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak before heading to Vilnius, Lithuania, for the 74th Nato summit, and ending in Finland with …

BLOOMBERG Bosnia-Herzegovina’s international overseer revoked two laws adopted by ethnic Serbs as unconstitutional, the latest standoff threatening stability in the country’s fragile postwar balance. Christian Schmidt, the Western-backed envoy with powers to change legislation that harms Bosnia’s complex power-sharing set up after ethnic warfare in the 1990s, struck down laws adopted by lawmakers in the Republika Srpska entity that denied …

BLOOMBERG The invasion of Ukraine has had a “corrosive effect” on Russian society and President Vladimir Putin’s regime, creating an “opportunity” for the US, said William Burns, director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). The top US spy made rare public comments, delivering a lecture at the Ditchley Foundation in Chipping Norton, northwest of London. “Disaffection with the war will …