Politics

Bloomberg UN rights chief Michelle Bachelet said she was unable to visit detained Uyghurs and that she was accompanied by authorities while visiting Xinjiang, remarks that raise questions about the Chinese government’s efforts to influence her trip. “I was not able to speak to any Uyghurs currently detained or their families during the visit,” Bachelet told a meeting of the ...

Bloomberg Boris Johnson’s ethics adviser said he resigned because was put in an “impossible and odious position” by the UK prime minister, who he stated was considering a potential deliberate breach of the ministerial code. In his resignation letter, Christopher Geidt didn’t specify the issue Johnson asked him to advise upon and that led him to quit. In his reply ...

  Bloomberg South Korea will expand the role of nuclear energy in order to meet its climate target. President Yoon Suk Yeol’s new government will increase the portion of atomic power in the energy mix to meet its emissions reductions goal, or Nationally Determined Contribution, it said Thursday. It will maintain the target set by the previous administration to cut ...

Bloomberg Turkey is maintaining its opposition to Sweden and Finland joining Nato unless they address its security concerns, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said, leaving little hope that enlargement of the bloc could get underway by a summit this month. Finland and Sweden sought entry into the North Atlantic Treaty Organization following Russia’s attack on Ukraine, only to have their bids ...

Bloomberg Chinese President Xi Jinping held his second phone call with Vladimir Putin since his Russian counterpart invaded Ukraine in late February, where he reiterated support for Russia’s security concerns, state broadcaster CCTV reported. The report of the conversation, which took place on Xi’s 69th birthday, largely repeated China’s prior comments on Russia including a call for Putin and other ...

Bloomberg The European Union is restarting legal proceedings against the UK as Brussels prepares for a drawn-out fight over London’s move to override part of the Brexit deal. The UK’s planned legislation announced earlier this week is a breach of international law, Maros Sefcovic, the EU’s chief Brexit negotiator, told reporters on Wednesday. He added that the UK proposal to ...

Bloomberg Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida plans to attend a Nato summit later this month, showing support for its efforts during Russia’s war in Ukraine by becoming the first Japanese premier to take part in such a meeting of the military alliance. “Russia’s invasion violates the peace and order of the world and can never be tolerated,” Kishida said as ...

  Bloomberg Canada plans to require companies to share cyber threat information and to remove any product or service that could pose security risks. Industry Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne and Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino introduced a bill Tuesday titled an “Act Respecting Cyber Security” that will apply to four federally-regulated infrastructure sectors including telecommunications, transport, finance and energy. The bill ...

Bloomberg President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said the war may stagnate if deliveries of advanced weapons from Ukraine’s allies don’t accelerate, and that the fighting is “very fierce” in the east. Russia continued its assault on Sievierodonetsk, shelling the city and surrounding villages as it pushes to capture the Ukrainian government’s last major foothold in the eastern region of Luhansk. The regional ...

Bloomberg Moves and posturing by Nato may have “somehow provoked, or not prevented” Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, according to Pope Francis, who reiterated a previously expressed view about the alliance in remarks published Tuesday by daily La Stampa. Speaking during a pool interview with a group of newspapers, the Pope condemned the brutality and ferocity of Russian troops in Ukraine, ...