Politics

Bloomberg Boris Johnson urged more military support for Ukraine as it battles Russian forces, including sending advanced weapons such as Multiple Launch Rocket (MLR) Systems that can strike targets from a far longer distance. The British prime minister aired his support for more arms for Ukraine as he pushed back against the idea that, with the war now in its ...

Bloomberg Former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s lead surged over incumbent Jair Bolsonaro as the field of candidates seeking Brazil’s top office thins out ahead of the October election, according to DataFolha’s latest poll. The 76-year-old leader of the Workers’ Party would win 48% of the first-round vote, while Bolsonaro would receive 27%, the survey found. In March, they ...

  Bloomberg New York City and Washington could be in for some window-rattling thunderstorms and gusty winds on Friday. Tornado watches were posted from Maryland to North Carolina on Friday, indicating the atmosphere was primed for the destructive storms, the National Weather Service said. As the day wears on, that risk will likely roll north into New Jersey, the upper ...

  Bloomberg Fiji will join the US in a wide-ranging economic initiative, making it the first Pacific Island country to do so as competition heats up between Beijing and Washington for influence in the Asia-Pacific. News of Fiji becoming the 14th country to join President Joe Biden’s Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF) came as China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi made a ...

Bloomberg Former President Donald Trump must testify under oath in New York’s “well founded” probe of his company, a state appeals court ruled. The appellate panel in Manhattan upheld a lower-court ruling from February, rejecting Trump’s argument that New York Attorney General Letitia James opened the investigation because she’s politically biased. James, who is probing potentially fraudulent asset valuations at ...

Bloomberg The Biden administration is counting on a rule change to speed up asylum decisions at the southern border and help ward off the turmoil expected to come if a measure that limits those claims is allowed to expire. Department of Homeland Security officials will get the power to reject or approve asylum cases directly starting from May 31. It’s ...

Bloomberg German Chancellor Olaf Scholz called for more countries to join international efforts to isolate Russia, saying President Vladimir Putin must not be allowed a victory in Ukraine that could embolden other warmongers. Scholz’s plea came as the European Union struggles to maintain a united front in talks over further sanctions against Moscow, and many emerging powers in Asia, Africa ...

Bloomberg The US ambassador to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) warned Russia could use any Ukraine territory it holds onto as a “springboard” to capture more terrain. Germany’s chancellor said Russia wants to “bomb us back to a time when war was a common political tool.” Nato Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg told allies the war “may ...

Bloomberg Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong urged that China remain integrated in the region, days after US President Joe Biden visited Asia for a series of summits that excluded the world’s second-largest economy. “If US-China relations continue on this path, it will lead to further bifurcation of technology and splitting of supply chains or even worse unintended consequences,” Lee ...

Bloomberg When Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed into law measures that would allow adults to carry handguns without a license in 2021, smiling at the dais a seat away from him was the head of the National Rifle Association (NRA). After the shooting deaths of at least 19 children and two adults at an elementary school in Uvalde, the Republican ...