Politics

BLOOMBERG Pakistan’s former premier Imran Khan has defied a deadline set by local officials to hand over supporters, as the political drama surrounding the opposition leader continues to escalate. Police remain outside his home in Punjab province, stoking concerns of a repeat of the violent clashes seen between his supporters and security forces. A provincial government minister claimed Khan was ...

BLOOMBERG US President Joe Biden and other Group of Seven (G-7) leaders began arriving in the Japanese city of Hiroshima for an annual summit, with concerns around China and Russia  — both uninvited — set to dominate discussions. The meeting, which runs through Sunday, comes as Russia launched fresh aerial assaults on Ukraine and Chinese President Xi Jinping attended a separate ...

BLOOMBERG Since his ouster as prime minister in 2022, Imran Khan has played a high-stakes game of challenging Pakistan’s powerful military. Now it’s reaching a breaking point. Khan’s dramatic arrest by dozens of paramilitary rangers for graft triggered protests that left at least eight people dead and hundreds injured, risking more spasms of violence in a nation struggling to pull ...

BLOOMBERG Pro-royalist members of Thailand’s upper house are facing mounting pressure to back Pita Limjaroenrat as the country’s next premier, after the Move Forward leader staked a claim to form a coalition government of pro-democracy parties that swept the election. Hurdles have emerged in Pita’s path to power after some of the 250 unelected members of the Senate, stacked with ...

BLOOMBERG Taiwan’s main opposition party is set to nominate New Taipei City Mayor Hou Yu-ih as its candidate for next year’s presidential election, a person familiar with the situation said, as it seeks to wrest back power in a vote crucial to US-China ties. The Kuomintang is set to formally announce Hou as its choice to represent the party in ...

BLOOMBERG Prime Minister Rishi Sunak pledged support for a coalition to help provide Ukraine with a fleet of Western-made fighter jets, although he stopped short during a surprise UK visit by President Volodymyr Zelenskiy of promising actual aircraft. Sunak told Zelenskiy on Monday that he was “very keen to build that coalition of countries to give Volodymyr and his people ...

BLOOMBERG Thailand’s two biggest pro-democracy parties agreed to join in a coalition that would give them a clear majority in the lower house, moving to quickly maintain momentum after a stronger-than-forecast showing in the elections. The liberal Move Forward party claimed a mandate to lead after topping the polls, with party chief Pita Limjaroenrat taking to Twitter to say he ...

BLOOMBERG Chancellor Olaf Scholz made a personal pledge to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy that Germany will continue to support the government in Kyiv with military and other assistance for as long as needed. Scholz hosted Zelenskiy in Berlin for the first time since Russia’s invasion and said the Ukrainian leader’s visit was “a strong signal.” It came a day after ...

BLOOMBERG Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi conceded a loss in the southern swing state of Karnataka, a rare victory for Rahul Gandhi’s opposition Congress party as it looks to build momentum ahead of national elections next year. Congress took 135 seats in the 224-member assembly, its biggest victory against Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in major state elections since the ...

OUAGADOUGOU / WAM Thirty three people were killed in an attack by gunmen on an area in western Burkina Faso. Babo Pierre Bassinga, governor of Boucle du Mouhoun region, said in a statement that the village of Youlou in the department of Cheriba, Mouhoun province, had been brutally attacked, with 33 civilians killed in the attack. The attack came three ...