Politics

Bloomberg The influential sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un rejected a disarmament-for-aid deal offered by South Korea’s president, calling it a “stupid” plan and dismissing the idea of engaging with Seoul. Kim Yo Jong told South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol to “stop dreaming in vain,” the state’s official Korean Central News Agency reported Friday. The comments added ...

  Bloomberg Myanmar’s military government announced on Friday a cabinet reshuffle with slight changes to ministerial roles, maintaining generals and close allies of military chief Min Aung Hlaing in top positions. Min Aung Hlaing’s premiership and deputy military chief Soe Win’s role as deputy prime minister remained the same, according to an order by the ruling State Administration Council, which ...

Bloomberg Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres met Thursday in Lviv, in western Ukraine, with Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy. Zelenskiy had discussions with each before tripartite talks started. Among the topics in Zelenskiy’s talks with Guterres was the situation at the Zaporizhizhia nuclear power plant, occupied by Russian forces since March and recently subject ...

  Bloomberg Estonia repulsed the largest wave of cyber attacks in over a decade as a pro-Kremlin hacking group retaliated to the government’s dismantling of a monument dedicated to Soviet World War II veterans. “Estonia was subject to the most extensive cyber attacks it has faced since 2007,” Luukas Ilves, Undersecretary for Digital Transformation, said on Twitter on Thursday. “Attempted ...

  Bloomberg Denmark will open an office in Rwanda as the Nordic country seeks to set up an asylum center outside of the European Union to reduce the number people seeking refuge. The office, which will be manned by two diplomats, will be based in the capital of Kigali, the Danish foreign ministry said in a statement on Thursday. In ...

  ­­­Bloomberg Republican Representative Liz Cheney said she wants to lead a charge to break Donald Trump’s hold on the GOP, setting up a new political action committee and saying she’s considering a run for president. After being trounced in Wyoming’s GOP primary by Trump-backed conservative lawyer Harriet Hageman, Cheney said she would do “whatever it takes” to block the ...

  ­­­Bloomberg Cuba is seeing its biggest exodus to the US in decades following a series of economic body blows that have worsened shortages and power blackouts. Border officials have encountered nearly 178,000 people fleeing the communist-run Caribbean nation of 11 million so far this fiscal year, according to US government data through July. Most are coming by land, after ...

Bloomberg China called on the US to refrain from sailing naval vessels through the Taiwan Strait, saying Beijing would take further action in the wake of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taipei. China’s ambassador to Washington, Qin Gang, said Tuesday that China viewed such Taiwan transits as an escalation by the US and an effort to support the “separatist” ...

Bloomberg For weeks now, Ukrainian forces have methodically targeted supply lines of Russian troops occupying the strategically important region and city of Kherson. That doesn’t mean they may be close to launching a large-scale offensive to take it back. Outgunned despite supplies of new weapons from its US and European allies, Ukraine’s military has so far avoided a major assault ...

Bloomberg The top American naval commander in Asia criticized what he said were unsafe and provocative actions by Chinese warplanes, reiterating US complaints about behavior that officials argue could prompt a clash. Vice Admiral Karl Thomas, commander of the US Navy’s Japan-based Seventh Fleet, expressed concern Tuesday about increasingly assertive efforts by the People’s Liberation Army to intercept US and ...