Bloomberg The UK government plans to move quickly to “fix” the Northern Ireland Protocol despite the election victory of the Irish nationalist party Sinn Fein, which favours keeping the contentious post-Brexit trade agreement. “It must be dealt with,” Dominic Raab, the UK’s deputy prime minister, told Sky News. Raab declined to comment on a report in the Telegraph that ...

Bloomberg The Russian invasion of Ukraine has spurred a rush of loans to help tiny Moldova defray the economic hit from the war raging next door. Things are so perilous that the International Monetary Fund is now calling on nations to send cash. The conflict is piling pressure on the ex-Soviet nation, just as it started trying to fix graft ...

Bloomberg The two candidates for Australia’s next prime minister were grilled on cost-of-living issues, corruption and rising inflation at a second leaders’ debate less than two weeks from a national vote to be held on May 21. During the debate, held in Sydney, the conversation often deteriorated into a yelling match between PM Scott Morrison and opposition Labor leader Anthony Albanese, ...