Bloomberg Pervez Musharraf, the former four-star Pakistani army general who governed the South Asian nation for nearly a decade after coming to power in a 1999 bloodless coup, has died. He was 79. He died after a long ailment in Dubai, said Raza Bokhari, a former spokesman and close aide. Musharraf, who was Pakistan’s fourth military leader, was a ...

  Bloomberg Ukraine’s government expects Russia’s new offensive to start this month, defense minister Oleksii Reznikov said at a press briefing in Kyiv. The one-year mark of Moscow’s invasion of its neighbor will be Feb. 24. Reznikov said the main directions of Russia’s attack are likely to be from the east and south. He discounted the possibility of an invasion ...

  Bloomberg Swiss prosecutors are investigating a data leak involving thousands of former Credit Suisse Group AG clients who’d reportedly held $100 billion with the bank, in a case set to further discourage whistleblowing in the secretive country. The Attorney General’s Office confirmed it’s investigating suspected acts of corporate espionage, breach of trade secrets and violations of banking secrecy laws ...