Politics

  Bloomberg Raila Odinga, who narrowly lost Kenya’s August 9 presidential elections, filed a lawsuit challenging the outcome after alleging that the process had been marred by rigging and counting irregularities. None of the candidates garnered the outright majority of valid votes cast needed for victory, according to a 72-page petition filed with the Supreme Court. Based on this and ...

  Bloomberg Serbia will negotiate with Kosovo over the next 10 days to try to resolve a dispute affecting tens of thousands of local Serbs who face a September 1 deadline to change their identity cards and car plates. Kosovo’s demand that members of the Serb minority adopt documents issued by the predominantly ethnic-Albanian government in Pristina triggered tensions last ...

  Bloomberg The judge who approved the search of former President Donald Trump’s Florida estate said “intense public and historical interest” in the FBI affidavit backing the warrant justified making an effort to unseal portions of it. US Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart in West Palm Beach, Florida, issued a written order Monday affirming his finding from a hearing last week ...

  Bloomberg A drone struck the headquarters of Russia’s Black Sea fleet in occupied Crimea on Saturday, days after unexplained explosions at nearby military facilities. No injuries were reported. The drone struck the roof of Russia’s Black Sea fleet headquarters in Sevastopol, Crimea, the region’s governor said on Telegram. No injuries were incurred, according to the Russian state news service ...

  Bloomberg The daughter of a prominent Moscow nationalist who advocated a “Russian World” ideology to justify expansion by the Kremlin, and who’d herself been sanctioned by the US and UK, was killed in a car bombing. Darya Dugina, 29, whose father is far-right political theorist Alexander Dugin, died when the Toyota SUV she was driving exploded about 20km (12 ...

  Bloomberg Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong warned against “foreign actors” and interference campaigns fueling divisions in the city state as global geopolitical tensions escalate. China-US relations have become “very troubled,” Lee said in his annual National Day Rally speech Sunday, adding that Singapore is among those trying “our best to avoid being caught up in the major power ...

  Bloomberg The violent siege by extremists at a popular hotel in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, ended around midnight Saturday, local police said. A final death toll is pending from Somalia’s ministry of health. Earlier estimates suggest at least 20 people died when members of al-Shabaab stormed the Hayat Hotel on Friday night after first setting off bombs outside. “As our ...

  Bloomberg It didn’t take long after Russia attacked Ukraine for French Colonel Clement Torrent to get his orders: He had six months to build a base for 1,000 soldiers on Nato’s eastern frontier. He and about 200 troops from France, Belgium and the Netherlands are now busy leveling a hilltop in the Romanian region of Transylvania. “Our due date ...

  Bloomberg Russia is likely using the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine to shield its troops and equipment, undermining the safety of the plant’s operations, according to European intelligence officials. There appears to be a deliberate effort by Russia to use the plant’s protected status as a nuclear site to provide cover to its forces, and prevent them ...

  Bloomberg Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian leader Vladimir Putin are both planning to attend a Group of 20 summit in the resort island of Bali later this year, Indonesian President Joko Widodo said. “Xi Jinping will come. President Putin has also told me he will come,” Jokowi, as the president is known, said in an interview with Bloomberg ...