Bloomberg The Afghan government is too weak to win a negotiated settlement without a new military strategy, the US envoy to the war-ravaged country said. “The situation is very concerning, and our expectation is that both the government and the Talibs would focus on a political settlement,” Zalmay Khalilzad, the US special representative for Afghanistan, said at the Aspen Security ...

Bloomberg Malaysia’s Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin said his government has the numbers needed for him to remain premier and there is no reason for him to offer to resign. His comments on Wednesday followed a meeting with the nation’s monarch and after the largest political party in the country’s ruling coalition retracted support for the embattled premier’s government. “Yet, I ...

Bloomberg An opposition leader who ripped up her passport to stop officials expelling her from Belarus went on trial on Wednesday as President Alexander Lukashenko steps up his campaign to crush dissent ahead of the first anniversary of disputed elections. Maria Kalesnikava, a flute player who became one of the public faces of the effort to defeat Lukashenko at last ...