Bloomberg As Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi meets Russia’s Vladimir Putin and attends a summit with China’s Xi Jinping on Friday, he’ll need to avoid looking too chummy with the US’s two top adversaries. Modi’s face-to-face meeting with Putin will take place Friday in Uzbekistan, where a host of leaders are gathering for a summit of the Chinese-founded Shanghai Cooperation ...

Bloomberg Swedish right-wing opposition parties are stepping up negotiations on forming a new government, after Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson tendered her resignation on Thursday. The Social Democrat leader has conceded defeat in Sunday’s election, and Moderate Party leader Ulf Kristersson will now try to forge an agreement with three parties that backed his candidacy. They include the anti-immigrant Sweden Democrats, ...

  Bloomberg US railroads and unions reached a tentative deal on Thursday, a breakthrough that looks to avert a labour disruption that risked adding supply-chain strains to the world’s largest economy. After 20 straight hours in the latest round of talks — which included President Joe Biden and other administration officials — the companies and union negotiators reached a preliminary ...