Politics

  Bloomberg Three Russian government officials were charged with conspiring to affect US policy towards Russia with staged events and propaganda — including efforts to influence members of Congress. An indictment against Aleksandr Babakov, deputy chairman of the state duma, Russia’s lower legislative body, and two members of his staff was unsealed in Manhattan federal court. Babakov, Aleksandr Vorobev and ...

  Bloomberg Frank James, the man arrested on federal terrorism charges for allegedly opening fire in a packed New York subway car, was ordered held without bail after prosecutors argued he posed a “serious and ongoing danger to the community.” Ten people were shot and 13 others injured during the melee that erupted after the rush hour assault in Brooklyn. ...

Bloomberg North Korea celebrated the 110th birthday of its deceased state founder, while a US aircraft carrier group was in waters east of the peninsula with Pyongyang poised for provocations that could include its first nuclear test since 2017. Festivities that included dance celebrations, music and fireworks commenced in Pyongyang, state TV said, as part of the celebrations for the ...

  Bloomberg Police detained Vietnam Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister To Anh Dung as part of an investigation into bribery accusations while he organised repatriation flights for Vietnamese abroad during the pandemic, the Ministry of Public Security said in a statement on its website. A former officer of the public security ministry’s immigration department and an officer at the health ministry ...

Bloomberg As Russian forces shift their military focus to the east, some Ukrainians who fled their homes early in the invasion are venturing back to see what’s left of their lives and whether they can start to rebuild. Daryna Tarasenko, a 27-year-old portrait photographer who abandoned her Kyiv apartment on the day of the February 24 attack, returned last week ...

Bloomberg Russia threatened to deploy nuclear weapons in and around the Baltic Sea region if Finland and Sweden join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (Nato) as tensions fuelled by President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine spread. “In this case, there can be no talk of non-nuclear status for the Baltic,” Dmitry Medvedev, deputy chief of Russia’s Security Council and former ...

Bloomberg French President Emmanuel Macron has become the latest leader to warn a major Russian assault in eastern Ukraine is imminent. If that’s the plan, its troops risk repeating at least some of the mistakes made in trying to take the capital, Kyiv. According to European and Nato diplomats familiar with the matter, Ukraine’s allies see a two-week window to ...

Bloomberg Boris Johnson revealed a controversial plan to send asylum seekers who cross the English Channel to Rwanda, a move the UK prime minister said will face significant legal hurdles as he tries to position his government on a flash-point political issue. Migrants who come to Britain on small boats risk being sent to the African state, Johnson said in ...

Bloomberg Sri Lanka needs between $3 billion to $4 billion this year to pull itself out of an unprecedented economic crisis and plans to start talks with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for help, Finance Minister Ali Sabry said. The nation is looking at making a “decent case” before the IMF to help preserve the economy, he said in an ...

Bloomberg President Joe Biden for the first time accused Russia of committing genocide in Ukraine, significantly escalating his condemnation of President Vladimir Putin’s invasion. Speaking at an event in Iowa laying out steps to lower fuel costs that have surged during the war, Biden described Russia’s actions in the conflict as a “genocide.” He later stood by his comments, but ...