Politics

  Bloomberg A US-led group of democracies condemned China for “suppression” of Hong Kong’s press freedoms in a statement that was “firmly rejected” by China, highlighting lingering tensions over human rights. Calling themselves the Media Freedom Coalition, 21 countries including the US, UK, Australia, Germany, Canada and Japan said in a statement released by the State Department that they “express ...

  Bloomberg Boris Johnson’s premiership is past the point of no return and he should resign, a hedge fund manager who has given the UK’s ruling Conservative Party more than three million pounds ($4 million) told the BBC. If “you lose moral authority” and “betray a sense of not really caring, I think you should leave,” John Armitage, co-founder of ...

  Bloomberg Prime Minister Justin Trudeau took a hard line against trucker protests that have paralyzed Canada’s capital city and have now halted commercial traffic to the US at the busiest border crossing between the two countries. The Ambassador Bridge that connects Windsor, Ontario, with Detroit was shut down in both directions, according to a Canadian government website and the ...

  Bloomberg US President Joe Biden said the controversial Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline between Russia and Germany would be stopped if President Vladimir Putin orders an invasion of Ukraine. “We will bring an end to it,” Biden said at a joint news conference at the White House with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in a short answer to a ...

  Bloomberg The UK government ruled out the prospect of an early election in Northern Ireland, saying it will be held on May 5 as planned. “It’s right” to allow lawmakers “time and space to pass legislation,” Northern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis told reporters in London. “I’ll be working to support the parties to do that and then we can ...

  Bloomberg Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s comment that opposition parties were responsible for a migrant worker exodus from India’s cities during a stringent Covid-19 lockdown in 2020 has led to a Twitter spat between two state chief ministers ahead of a slew of local elections. Yogi Adityanath, the chief minister of the most populous state of Uttar Pradesh, blamed the ...

  Bloomberg A Hong Kong court upheld the conviction of an American lawyer handed a jail term over a scuffle with a plainclothes cop, in a case that fueled international debate over police tactics in the city. High Court Judge Esther Toh said she found “no merit at all in any of the grounds of appeal against conviction,” in a ...

  Bloomberg A convoy of cars and campervans blocked streets around New Zealand’s parliament in Wellington on Tuesday to protest Covid-19 restrictions, attempting to mimic the truckers who have gridlocked the Canadian city of Ottawa. About 2,000 protesters descended on downtown Wellington from around the country, parking their vehicles in streets around parliament buildings, disrupting traffic and holding speeches on ...

  Bloomberg Boris Johnson promised his Conservative Party an overhaul of his top team as he strives to keep his job after a series of gaffes and scandals. Two rapid appointments over the weekend may already be too late. Reeling from the resignation of five aides in 24 hours last week, the UK prime minister moved quickly to fill key ...

  Bloomberg The US and its allies need to push back harder against China after they “acquiesced and allowed” Beijing to expand its footprint in the South China Sea over the past decade, Australia’s Defense Minister Peter Dutton said. “If we continue on that trajectory, then I think we’ll lose the next decade,” Dutton said in an interview with the ...