published Apr 20th 2017, 3:33 pm, by Margaret Talev and Toluse Olorunnipa (Bloomberg) —President Donald Trump said he has “absolute confidence” that Chinese President Xi Jinping will work “very, very hard” to defuse rising tensions North Korea has stirred through nuclear and missile tests. Trump, speaking at the White House

published Jul 24th 2017, 4:56 pm, by Noah Feldman (Bloomberg View) —Given the scale of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, it may seem strange that the latest round of violence was triggered by metal detectors. But the metal detectors in question were installed by Israel at the entrances to the Temple Mount/Haram