World News at a Glance

Trump Suggests North Korean Nuclear Deal Could Take Years

President Donald Trump said Wednesday he had years to reach an agreement with North Korea to rid the country of nuclear weapons, reversing the position he took a year ago that Pyongyang had to disarm rapidly. “I don’t want to get into the time game,” he said at a news conference. “I got all the time in the world. I don’t have to rush it.” Trump’s statement came despite U.S. intelligence agencies’ conclusion that North Korea continues to produce nuclear fuel and fabricate it into weapons. U.S. officials estimate the country has between 20 and 60 nuclear weapons, and the number may be rising.

At U.N., President Claims China Is Meddling in Midterm Elections

President Donald Trump on Wednesday accused a foreign power of meddling in a U.S. election: not Russia, but China. The Chinese, Trump claimed, were trying to damage his political standing before the midterm elections because of his imposition of tariffs on billions of dollars in Chinese goods. Speaking at the United Nations Security Council, where China’s foreign minister was also present, he said, “They do not want me or us to win because I am the first president to ever challenge China on trade.” Trump did not suggest that China’s behavior was on the scale of Russia’s sophisticated interference during the 2016 election.

Russian Officer Is Named as Suspect in Salisbury Poisoning

A group of investigative journalists from Britain and Russia on Wednesday named a highly decorated colonel in Russia’s military intelligence service as one of the men accused of poisoning a former Russian spy and his daughter in Britain earlier this year. A report by the investigative group Bellingcat and the Insider, a Russian news outlet, named the suspect as Col. Anatoly Chepiga. Moscow has denied any involvement in the attack on the former spy, Sergei Skripal, who was living in the English city of Salisbury after being released from a Russian prison in a spy swap.

Swedish Skit Mocks Chinese Tourists, Drawing Backlash in China

Tension between China and Sweden over the treatment of a group of tourists in Stockholm has escalated after a satirical skit depicted Chinese travelers as people who eat dogs and need to be told not to defecate in public. The incident has led to repeated complaints from Chinese diplomats, and calls on Chinese social media for boycotts of Swedish products and travel to the country. Earlier this month, a Chinese man and his parents arrived at a hostel in Stockholm after midnight, hours before they could check in. The hostel said they could not stay overnight in the lobby, and a video showed police forcibly removing the family.

Seeing Ally Against Muslims, Some German Jews Embrace Far Right

Efforts by Jews to form their own group within a far-right German political party have been met with criticism from the country’s leading Jewish organizations. The move among members of the group, the Jewish Alternative for Germany, comes amid a spike in anti-Semitic incidents in the country. With some of the attacks coming from Muslims, some Jews have thrown in their lot with the party, known as AfD. “The AfD is the only party in Germany that focuses on Muslims’ hatred for Jews, without playing it down,” Dimitri Schulz said in a statement defining the new group’s purpose.

Labor Chief Pledges End to Era of ‘Greed Is Good’

Jeremy Corbyn, leader of Britain’s opposition Labour Party, doubled down Wednesday on his platform, promising to sweep away “greed is good” capitalism and expand the state’s role in the economy as he closed an annual conference dominated by divisions over European Union withdrawal. Corbyn underscored his ambition to shift economic policy leftward — a position he described as the “new common sense of our time” after a decade of stagnating wages and squeezed living standards. In a speech intended to present him as a prime minister in waiting, Corbyn said it would be a “disaster” if Britain quit the EU without a deal.