Politics

  Bloomberg Russia confirmed it withdrew troops from Ukraine’s Snake Island in the Black Sea after the Ukrainian military said it had driven them out under massive attack. The Defense Ministry in Moscow called the decision a gesture aimed at easing grain shipments from Ukraine, but a top official in Kyiv dismissed that claim. There was no sign of a ...

Bloomberg Ferdinand Marcos Jr., the late Philippine dictator’s son and namesake, was to be officially sworn in as president on Thursday, completing his family’s political revival nearly four decades after his father’s ouster. Marcos met with President Rodrigo Duterte at the presidential palace, where the outgoing leader was also given departure honors. The incoming president will take the oath of ...

Bloomberg Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party will share power to govern India’s richest state of Maharashtra, a senior party member said, a day after the chief minister resigned following a rebellion by lawmakers of his own party. More than half the legislators of Uddhav Thackeray’s right-wing Shiv Sena have exited his ruling coalition claiming he has deviated from ...

  Bloomberg Russian hacker group Killnet targeted a string of Norwegian public service websites in the latest digital salvo against Nato member countries. Norway’s National Security Authority has been assisting a series of organizations in dealing with targeted cyber attacks from an alleged pro-Russian group, Director General Sofie Nystrom said. Some websites experienced instability or disruption, but there are currently ...

Bloomberg Nato leaders formally invited Sweden and Finland to join the military alliance, paving the way for reshaping European defense by lengthening its border with Russia. “The accession of Finland and Sweden will make them safer, Nato stronger, and the Euro-Atlantic area more secure,” according to summit conclusions agreed by Nato leaders in Madrid after weeks of stalling by Turkey. ...

  Bloomberg Boris Johnson said he would be “absolutely amazed” if Vladimir Putin attends the Group of 20 summit in Indonesia in November, calling the Russian president a “pariah figure.” Both Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy have been invited to the G-20 gathering in Bali by Indonesia’s president Joko Widodo. Russia has been heavily sanctioned by some G-20 states ...

  Bloomberg President Emmanuel Macron’s bid to clinch a coalition agreement in French parliament by next week looks increasingly unlikely. The legislative trouncing earlier this month means Macron will have to build alliances to pass legislation, a situation not seen in France since 1958. But at the Matignon palace in Paris where premier Elisabeth Borne has been meeting party representatives ...

Bloomberg President Xi Jinping is set to finally leave mainland China after 893 days at home, even as he still trumpets a Covid Zero policy that has isolated the world’s No. 2 economy diplomatically amid rising geopolitical tensions. The Chinese leader will nip across the border to neighboring Hong Kong on Thursday and Friday, according to local media, for events ...

Bloomberg Group of Seven nations agreed to stick by Ukraine to the bitter end and ratchet up the cost to Russia of its aggression, while leaving much of the detail of how to do so unresolved. At the conclusion of a G-7 summit in Germany, leaders stressed their “unwavering commitment” to the government and people of Ukraine, and made clear ...

Bloomberg Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has warned the Chinese government to learn the lessons of Russia’s “strategic failure” in Ukraine, as he heads to Europe for a meeting of Nato leaders. In an interview with the Australian Financial Review, conducted en route to Spain for the Nato meeting, Albanese said the Ukraine invasion had brought democratic nations together, “whether ...