Politics

  Bloomberg Rescue and relief teams are struggling to reach survivors of a deadly earthquake that hit Afghanistan’s remote southeast, killing at least 1,000 people and injuring hundreds more even as the country battles multiple humanitarian crises. The eastern Paktika province, home to some of the country’s most impoverished farmers and cattle herders, was the worst hit, several officials from ...

  Bloomberg Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas warned of the grave consequences of any future Russian aggression in the Baltics ahead of an important Nato summit next week. Speaking to journalists in Tallinn on Wednesday, Kallas said Nato’s “tripwire” strategy for defending the three Baltic countries of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, under which allies would arrive with reinforcements only after ...

  Bloomberg Myanmar’s civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been shifted to solitary confinement inside a military-built prison compound in the capital of Naypyidaw, a junta spokesman said Thursday. Suu Kyi was detained at an undisclosed location soon after the coup last year, and a special court in April sentenced her to five years in prison in the first ...

Bloomberg President Emmanuel Macron acknowledged he’d have to compromise and negotiate with rivals, in his first public address to the French people since losing his outright majority in parliament. “We must collectively learn how to govern and legislate in a different way. Build new compromises through dialogue, listening and respect,” Macron said in a televised speech Wednesday night. “This is ...

  Bloomberg India western state of Maharashtra, home to the country’s financial capital, is staring at a political crisis with lawmakers from Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray’s Shiv Sena threatening to exit his ruling coalition and demanding the renewal of an alliance with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party. Several legislators from the Shiv Sena party, led by senior leader ...

  Bloomberg Former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva saw his lead over incumbent Jair Bolsonaro grow to 17 percentage points in a possible second round, the widest in five months, according to a new poll carried out after the latest fuel price increase in Brazil. Lula would receive 52% of the votes while Bolsonaro would get 35% in a ...

  Bloomberg At least 1,000 people have been killed and hundreds more injured after a powerful earthquake hit southeastern Afghanistan overnight, setting off a new humanitarian crisis in a country already facing a crumbling economy and hunger. The eastern Paktika province was the worst hit, Sharafuddin Muslim, the deputy state minister for Disaster Management said. The state-run Bakhtar News agency ...

  Bloomberg Rocket attacks on the Ukrainian port city of Mykolayiv have damaged a terminal owned by agricultural trader Viterra. “Viterra can confirm that its Everi terminal was hit and is currently on fire,” a company spokesperson said Wednesday, adding that there were no fatalities. The terminal can export as much as 1.5 million tons of vegetable oil a year. ...

  Bloomberg Chinese President Xi Jinping criticized sanctions for stoking global economic pain in a speech kicking off this year’s BRICS summit, as he seeks to bolster relations with emerging markets in the wake of strained Western ties. Without explicitly naming the US, Xi said that the international community is worried that the global economy will split into mutually exclusive ...

  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 ...