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Deposed Catalan President Carles Puigdemont demanded the Spanish government recognize his victory in Thursday’s regional election and drop an arrest warrant, to let him end a self-imposed exile in

Two days after firing her closest political ally Damian Green, Theresa May remains under pressure over claims about his behavior.

Every year, world leaders must confront new disruptors – unforeseen forces that suddenly consume their every decision.

With Venezuela starving and its opposition in tatters, disenchanted voters are investing their hopes in a billionaire who gained fame putting food on their tables.

Normally right about now, many on Wall Street would be packing their bags for the Caribbean or the slopes. Not this year.

The threat of nuclear war with North Korea has raised the stakes when it comes to defending against EMPs.

Colleges are rushing to help wealthy donors lock in a federal tax break, which subsidizes the sales of college sports tickets and costs taxpayers $200 million a year.

Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko, who’s labored for years under the title of Europe’s last dictator, is making a bid for a shiny new image as the continent’s freewheeling cryptocurrency king.

A financing program that’s let more than 180,000 homeowners pay for solar panels and clean-energy appliances through their local tax bills is poised to survive an effort by Republicans to add

Louisiana is finalizing a plan to move thousands of people from areas threatened by the rising Gulf of Mexico, effectively declaring uninhabitable a coastal area larger than Delaware.

The Republican-controlled Congress managed the bare minimum task of keeping the government open before the holiday recess, yet made little progress on a medley of divisive fiscal and social issues it

A split between Gary Cohn and Steven Mnuchin helped preserve a loophole that benefits investment fund managers.

The European Union should drop plans to discipline Poland for failing to uphold democratic values because Hungary will use its right to block the procedure, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said Friday.

It’s all about seats, not votes. Parties supporting Catalan independence from Spain won back control of the regional assembly, taking 70 of 135 seats after a record 82 percent turnout. Still, they got

Pro-independence parties have won back control of Catalonia and handed Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy a historic defeat in yesterday's regional election. The three separatist groups claimed 70 seats in

Richard Lewis, founder and chief executive officer at Port Shelter Investment Management, discusses the House passing the stopgap bill and the tax reform bill. He speaks on "Bloomberg Markets: Asia."

China has signaled it’s ready to back another round of United Nations sanctions that will slash exports of fuel to North Korea, according to people familiar with the matter.

Peruvian President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski survived a pell-mell impeachment effort over allegations that he lied about dealings with Brazilian construction company Odebrecht SA, which is at the center

Tour agencies in China’s Shandong province said they received notification from the government of a ban on group trips to South Korea, in a further signal that Beijing isn’t adopting a fast approach

Joakim Tiberg, global macro strategist at UBS Securities Australia, discusses the election in Catalonia and its impact on the Euro zone and markets. He speaks on "Bloomberg Daybreak: Australia."