Politics

  Bloomberg Hundreds of Ethiopian troops converged on a town near the border of the northern Tigray province, days after the government and rebels from the region agreed on a humanitarian truce. Over the past few days, 32 buses carrying soldiers were seen in Kobo in Amhara state south of Tigray, some of whom may be replacing personnel who were ...

Bloomberg US President Joe Biden called for the ouster of Vladimir Putin, an unscripted and revealing aside that risks feeding the Russian president’s narrative that the conflict is in fact an effort to remove him from power, not simply to stop his invasion of Ukraine. Biden took the stage in Warsaw to deliver one of the most consequential speeches of ...

  Bloomberg Poland’s President Andrzej Duda criticised Hungary for failing to support Ukraine, exposing a growing rift between the two erstwhile allies since the war began more than a month ago. Speaking after meeting US President Joe Biden in Warsaw, Duda said Hungary’s high dependence on Russian energy supplies makes PM Viktor Orban understandably wary. “But given Russian aggression against Ukraine, ...

  Bloomberg Images of North Korea’s successful launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile overseen by Kim Jong-un that aired on the reclusive nation’s state TV were likely taken from an earlier test that failed, NK Pro reported. Satellite images of the Pyongyang International Airport, where the tests were conducted, indicate North Korea used some footage from a failed Hwasong-17 test ...

  Bloomberg Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti — whose nomination as US ambassador to India has faced months of delay — said there’s a pressing need to fill the role since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. “This is an urgent national-security moment,” Garcetti said in an interview at LA’s City Hall. “And I think our country deeply feels that right now ...

  Bloomberg Thailand’s Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-Ocha slipped to the second position in an opinion poll as the number of undecided voters shrunk amid speculation of an early general election. Prayuth, the coup leader-turned-premier, got 12.7% votes in a March 10-15 survey by the National Institute of Development Administration, known as Nida. That’s down from 16.9% in December and his ...

Bloomberg Chinese President Xi Jinping has an opportunity to make history in pushing for a resolution to the war in Ukraine, the United Nations’ most senior official in China said, encouraging Beijing to take a more active part in ending the bloodshed. “I see China as a country which can play an important role in mediating the crisis,” Siddharth Chatterjee, ...

Bloomberg After a month of fighting that’s yielded limited territorial gains, the Russian military said it’s focusing efforts on taking full control of Ukraine’s Donbas region, potentially a sign it’s backing away from hopes of taking larger swathes of the country. “Our forces will focus on the main thing – the complete liberation of Donbas,” Sergei Rudskoi, first deputy chief ...

Bloomberg Kim Jong-un oversaw the successful launch of a new, larger intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), in an explosive confirmation of his continued nuclear weapons development over the past four years despite international sanctions and failed talks with the US. The missile fired from a mobile launcher at Pyongyang Sunan International Airport was a Hwasong-17, according to dispatches and photographs published ...

Bloomberg India and China discussed Russia’s war in Ukraine and their own border standoff during an unannounced visit by Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, the first since tensions erupted between the neighbors two years ago. Ties between New Delhi and Beijing haven’t returned to normal yet and will continue to be disturbed as long as troops remain deployed along their ...