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Seoul says North Korea has fired an unidentified projectile

North Korea on Thursday fired an unidentified projectile, South Korea’s military said, three days after the North said its troops conducted artillery drills near its disputed sea boundary with South Korea. A brief statement Thursday from Seoul’s Joint…

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North Korea Launches Two Missiles in New Test for Trump

(Bloomberg) — North Korea fired what appeared to be two short-range ballistic missiles on Thursday, a move that comes as it has threatened to walk away from sputtering nuclear talks unless President Donald Trump offers up concessions by year end.The m…

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For These Hunters, Every Day Is Turkey Day

Got turkey on the brain? Not as much as these fanatical hunters, who spend all year “dreaming and scheming and thinking about turkey.”

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Modern Black Friday Work Force: Postal Clerk, Influencer, Robot

They’re still selling you stuff, but the e-commerce era has redefined who, exactly, works in retailing.

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Turkey: 2 soldiers killed in mortar fire from Syria

Turkey’s defense ministry says a mortar attack killed two soldiers at a border post in the town of Akcakale on the Syria-Turkey border. A ministry statement Thursday said Turkish artillery units returned fire immediately after the attack, which took p…

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Iran condemns burning of its consulate by Iraqi protesters

Iran has condemned the burning of its consulate in southern Iraq by anti-government protesters hours earlier. Iran’s official IRNA news agency said Thursday that Abbas Mousavi, a foreign ministry spokesman, called for a “responsible, strong and effect…

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Is Jeremy Corbyn an Anti-Semite? It No Longer Matters

(Bloomberg Opinion) — A lot of things about Britain today are what psychologists might describe as complex. Brexit? Don’t get me started. The social care crisis? A mess. Addressing the climate emergency and homelessness? Neither is straightforward.Lab…

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U.K. House Prices Rise at Fastest Pace in More Than a Year

U.K. House Prices Rise at Fastest Pace in More Than a Year(Bloomberg) — Want the lowdown on European markets? In your inbox before the open, every day. Sign up here.U.K. house prices increased at their fastest pace in more than a year this month, according to Nationwide Building Society.Values rose 0.5% in November from October, the biggest advance since July 2018, the mortgage lender said Thursday. From a year ago, values rose 0.8%, the highest since April, but still registering sub-1% growth for an 12th straight month.U.K. housing activity has been undermined by Brexit since the 2016 referendum, and the increased uncertainty caused by successive delays to the withdrawal from the EU has hurt the economy and taken a further toll on the market.The election next month may bring some clarity, although Nationwide cautioned against expecting too much impact on the market from the poll.“It appears that housing market trends have not traditionally been impacted around the time of general elections,” said Robert Gardner, Nationwide’s chief economist. “Rightly or wrongly, for most home buyers, elections are not foremost in their minds while buying or selling their home.”To contact the reporter on this story: David Goodman in London at [email protected] contact the editors responsible for this story: Paul Gordon at [email protected], Fergal O’BrienFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.

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Black Friday Backlash Isn’t Just Good for the Planet

(Bloomberg Opinion) — On London’s Oxford Street last weekend, you could almost forget we were in the midst of a retail apocalypse. Christmas lights and a slew of special offers marking an ever earlier start to the imported bargain frenzy, Black Friday…

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UN says armed attacks in eastern Congo kill Ebola responders

Rebels have attacked and killed Ebola response workers in eastern Congo, the World Health Organization chief said Thursday, an alarming development that could cause the waning outbreak to again pick up momentum in what has been called a war zone. “We …

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UN says armed attacks in eastern Congo kill Ebola responders

Rebels have attacked and killed Ebola response workers in eastern Congo, the World Health Organization chief said Thursday, an alarming development that could cause the waning outbreak to again pick up momentum in what has been called a war zone. “We …

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