Politics

  Bloomberg Singapore plans to introduce a points-based visa system for some of its highest-paid foreign workers, including scores for how the applicant’s nationality contributes to the diversity of their firm, in addition to education, skills and pay. The program unveiled Friday in parliament by Manpower Minister Tan See Leng is among the biggest visa changes ever for a nation ...

Bloomberg Libyan lawmakers’ plan to install a new government faced turmoil after gunmen seized two of the proposed ministers, escalating a standoff that risks reigniting conflict in the OPEC member. The incoming foreign affairs and culture ministers were taken by unidentified men while en route to the eastern city of Tobruk, according to a statement from the office of Fathi ...

Bloomberg Finland’s President Sauli Niinisto will visit President Joe Biden in Washington, DC, on Friday, just as the debate on joining Nato has intensified in the Nordic country after its neighbor Russia invaded Ukraine. The presidents are set to discuss Russia’s attack, its impact on security in Europe and bilateral cooperation between the countries, Niinisto’s office said in a statement ...

  Bloomberg Rosneft Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Igor Sechin’s superyacht was impounded by French customs officials on the Cote D’Azur, part of the European Union’s sanctions against wealthy Russians with close ties to President Vladimir Putin. The Amore Vero was confiscated overnight in the Mediterranean port of La Ciotat, near Marseille, as it was preparing an urgent departure, according ...

  Bloomberg Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi dismissed Prime Minister Carlos Agostinho do Rosário, a day after he removed six members of the cabinet in his government’s biggest leadership overhaul since he took power in 2015. Nyusi didn’t provide any reason for the decision, nor did he immediately name a replacement in a statement from his office Thursday. Do Rosario had ...

Bloomberg China is “extremely concerned” about the harm to civilians in Ukraine, Foreign Minister Wang Yi told his Ukrainian counterpart in a call, in the latest indication of Beijing’s desire to prevent the war’s further escalation. Wang said the world’s second largest economy also “deplores the outbreak of conflict between Ukraine and Russia,” according to a statement posted on the ...

  Bloomberg Taiwan’s government is juggling competing high-profile visits from the US in a busy week of diplomacy as Washington sends a delegation to democratically run Taipei just before a trip by former secretary of state Michael Pompeo. President Tsai Ing-wen met a bipartisan group led by former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Michael Mullen in the Presidential ...

  Bloomberg India plans to avoid condemning Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine as it needs Russian weapons in its standoff with China, and officials in New Delhi are confident the US won’t apply much pressure, people familiar with the matter said. Moscow has been one of India’s biggest weapons suppliers since the Cold War, with more than half of India’s ...

  Bloomberg Russia told the International Atomic Energy Agency that its military had taken control of territory around Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant as diplomats hold an emergency meeting to voice their mounting concern over safety with fighting escalating. Ukraine authorities say they maintain control of the plant itself and that a combat-ready military unit remains within the perimeter. Some ...

Bloomberg Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is entering a new phase, promising a more deadly time ahead for the country’s civilians and its remarkably determined army, according to Western military officials. Early signs are that Russian commanders are abandoning the approach that marked the first days of the conflict, in which they relied on lightning strikes into cities they assumed would ...