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  Bloomberg Electricite de France SA plans to sell about €4 billion of new shares and deepen cost cuts to bolster its finances as the company works to decide whether to move forward with a controversial nuclear power plant project in the U.K. EDF will submit a plan for the capital increase by the closing date of its 2016 accounts, ...

  Hanover / AFP Opponents of a proposed transatlantic trade deal hope to draw tens of thousands onto German streets Saturday, on the eve of a visit by US President Barack Obama. Obama’s trip — to open an industrial technology fair in the northern city of Hanover and hold talks with Chancellor Angela Merkel and other European leaders — was intended ...

  HARRINGTON / AP Top aides spent the week gingerly courting Republican insiders at a seaside resort in Florida, but front-runner Donald Trump was busy railing against them. While it may seem counterproductive, Trump’s foot-stomping has served as a rallying cry to boost voter turnout and allowed him to continue to appeal to voters who feel disenfranchised. The “rigged” system ...

  PARIS / AP Overnight clashes between French police and about 100 people have led to 12 arrests in eastern Paris. The Paris police said the clashes took place from Friday night to early Saturday around the Place de la Republique on the sidelines of the “Night Rising” protest movement. A police car was set on fire and projectiles were ...

  SEOUL / AP South Korea says North Korea has fired what appeared to be a ballistic missile from a submarine off its northeast coast. Seoul’s Defense Ministry couldn’t immediately confirm where the projectile landed after Saturday’s launch. North Korea has fired a slew of missiles and artillery shells into the sea in an apparent protest against ongoing annual military ...

  LONDON / AP President Barack Obama on Saturday urged the next generation of British leaders to give serious thought to how they solve problems, turning a light-hearted question about priorities for his successor into a treatise on his preference for diplomacy over military conflict. Obama said keeping US citizens safe is his top priority and he suggested that it ...

  Washington / AFP Eight members of one family, including a teenager, were shot dead in rural Ohio, just before gunmen killed five people in Georgia. In Ohio, seven bodies were found at three houses close to eachother and an eighth was later found at a separate site, Sheriff Charles Reader told reporters. The victims were “all adults except for ...

  Juba/ AFP South Sudan rebel chief Riek Machar eas expected to miss an international deadline on Saturday to return to the capital to take up the post of vice president, the government said, with his arrival now expected next week. UN chief Ban Ki-moon has urged Machar to return to Juba “without delay”, while the US, Britain and Norway—key ...

  Johannesburg / AFP The firebrand head of South Africa’s radical opposition Economic Freedom Fighters, Julius Malema, has warned he could seek to remove the government “through the barrel of a gun.” “We are not scared of the army. We are not scared to fight. We will fight,” he told the pan-Arab Al-Jazeera network in an interview to be broadcast ...

  Bloomberg Boeing Co. is pitching some of the largest US airlines on a potential upgrade of its smallest 737 Max as it battles Airbus Group SE and Bombardier Inc. for lucrative single-aisle jet orders, people familiar with the matter said. The US planemaker is studying a potential redesign that would lengthen the frame and range for the 737 Max ...