Politics

  Bloomberg New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern plans to attend the Pacific Islands Forum Leaders’ Meeting in Fiji this week, just days after the head of state called for more regional co-operation to counter China and amid reports one island member has withdrawn on the conference’s eve. Ardern will go to Fiji from Tuesday to Thursday where she plans ...

Bloomberg Boris Johnson has resigned as UK prime minister, bringing the curtain down on a tempestuous three years in office marred by a succession of scandals that culminated in the rebellion of his own cabinet and parliamentary group. Johnson, 58, bowed to the inevitable after the mass resignation of members of his government, including Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak, ...

Bloomberg President Joe Biden accused former President Donald Trump of “dismissing and ignoring the forgotten people he promised to help” in a unusually blunt attack, indicating that the White House may be trying to turn the midterm elections into a referendum on his predecessor. Biden, at an event in Cleveland, slammed Trump repeatedly during his remarks unveiling new regulations governing ...

Bloomberg The foreign ministers of Australia and China will meet for the first time in almost three years as the two nations try to reset a relationship that has often been marked by diplomatic tensions and economic tariffs. The two ministers will have bilateral talks at the Group of 20 meeting in Bali, China’s foreign ministry said Thursday. News of ...

Bloomberg New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said China’s increasingly assertive stance in the Pacific must be addressed through dialogue and diplomacy. “In the wake of the tensions we see rising, including in our Indo-Pacific region, diplomacy must become the strongest tool and de-escalation the loudest call,” Ardern said in a speech to the Lowy Institute Thursday in Sydney. “We ...

  Bloomberg Romania reopened a Soviet-era rail link connecting its Danube River port of Galati to Ukraine a month earlier than expected to help boost vital grain exports from its neighbour. Ukraine, known the breadbasket of Europe, typically exports the bulk of its grain from Black Sea ports, but they’ve been blocked by Russia’s invasion. That’s constraining sales to road, ...

Bloomberg Boris Johnson could face a leadership challenge as soon as next week as rank-and-file Conservative MPs meet Wednesday to discuss whether to allow a fresh confidence vote. Members of the Tory 1922 Committee will meet at 5 p.m. to discuss Johnson, a person familiar with the matter said. If there is a majority in favor of another confidence vote, ...

Bloomberg Russian authorities are pushing through a raft of new repressive measures against domestic opponents, expanding crackdowns on critics as the Kremlin’s war in Ukraine is in its fifth month. Legislators have approved new proposals to dramatically broaden treason statutes, as well as restrictions on “foreign agents,” a legal category that’s been used widely against critics and independent journalists. Another ...

Bloomberg US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will have a candid discussion about the war in Ukraine with his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi during a summit in Indonesia that’s set to be dominated by the fallout from Russia’s invasion, a top official said. “We’ve had a number of communications at senior levels with our Chinese counterparts about what we expect, ...

Bloomberg Turkey is threatening to veto Nato membership for Sweden and Finland even as the military alliance formally paved the way for the two Nordic countries to join. Turkey will not ratify membership of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization for the applicants if they don’t fufill their promises to combat terrorism and extradite suspects under a memorandum of understanding reached ...