Politics

  Bloomberg Mario Draghi is facing the biggest coalition turmoil since he became Italy’s prime minister in 2021, just as he sets out for a week of back-to-back international summits that will focus on Russia’s war in Ukraine. Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio, one of the highest-profile members of Draghi’s cabinet, on Tuesday acrimoniously quit the Five Star Movement that ...

  Bloomberg China sent its third-largest sortie of warplanes towards Taiwan this year, after the US rejected Chinese claims over the Taiwan Strait and reports of arms sales talks with Taipei in Washington. Twenty-nine Chinese aircraft, including six H-6 bombers and an electronic intelligence gathering plane, entered Taiwan’s southwestern air defense identification zone Tuesday, according to a tweet from the ...

  Bloomberg Brexit has reduced the competitiveness of the British economy, with alarming implications for productivity and wages, according to the Resolution Foundation. The research firm said a loss of openness since Britain left the European Union is set to leave the country poorer in the coming decade, with advanced manufacturing and parts of northern England dealt the heaviest blow. ...

Bloomberg The secretary of Russia’s Security Council threatened retaliation in a growing standoff with the European Union after Lithuania blocked the transit of sanctioned goods to the Baltic exclave of Kaliningrad. Russia “will certainly respond to such hostile actions” and appropriate measures will be taken soon, Nikolai Patrushev, a close ally of President Vladimir Putin, said Tuesday in comments from ...

Bloomberg India is expected to push back against an anticipated effort by Chinese President Xi Jinping to use this year’s Brics summit as a platform to highlight his efforts to build an alternative to the US-led global order, Indian officials with knowledge of the matter said. The virtual event, which Beijing is hosting this week, is set to bring together ...

Bloomberg Italy’s biggest party is set to splinter over the country’s support for Ukraine, just as Prime Minister Mario Draghi defended in parliament his government’s stance on the conflict. Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio may soon quit the Five Star Movement and set up a new parliamentary group of his own, in a clash with party leader Giuseppe Conte, according ...

  Bloomberg South Africa’s main opposition party has asked the US Federal Bureau of Investigation to probe whether President Cyril Ramaphosa was involved in money laundering, after it emerged that foreign currency had been stolen from his game farm. “Specifically, we have requested that the FBI considers investigating the source of the funds and whether the money was brought into ...

Bloomberg Colombia is bracing for the prospect of a radical change in economic and political direction after electing a former guerrilla to the presidency on a platform of transforming the country’s business-friendly model. Gustavo Petro, 62, defeated construction magnate Rodolfo Hernandez in Sunday’s runoff vote, giving him a shot at enacting a program that includes plans to tax big landowners, ...

Bloomberg President Emmanuel Macron made history in the French legislative elections, just not in the way he hoped. The 44-year-old centrist became the first president in decades to fail to garner an absolute majority in parliament, falling short of the 289-seat threshold. His alliance, however, will still remain the largest bloc. That means that while Macron may be able to ...

Bloomberg Russia said it hit military targets in Ukraine with sea-launched cruise missiles, including a strike on a planning meeting of Ukrainian commanders. The war in Ukraine “could last for years,” Nato Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg told Germany’s Bild am Sonntag, saying the military alliance “must not let up on supporting” Kyiv. The new head of the British Army said ...