Politics

  Bloomberg Myanmar’s military government will not be invited to a meeting of Southeast Asian foreign ministers later this month, VOA Khmer reported Wednesday, citing a Cambodian Foreign Ministry official. The Myanmar junta made little progress in implementing a consensus agreed with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations to stop violence, Cambodia’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Chum Sounry was quoted as ...

  Bloomberg The FBI is investigating a series of bomb threats against several historically black colleges and other institutions across the country this week as hate crimes. “This investigation is of the highest priority for the bureau and involves more than 20 FBI field offices across the country,” the FBI said in a statement. “These threats are being investigated as ...

  Bloomberg New Zealand will finally begin reopening to the world at the end of this month as frustration mounts over a border that’s been closed for almost two years to keep out Covid-19. The border will reopen to vaccinated New Zealanders from Australia at midnight on February 27 and from the rest of the world at midnight on March ...

  Bloomberg Northern Ireland First Minister Paul Givan quit on Thursday, triggering a political crisis as the UK and the European Union struggle to resolve the region’s post-Brexit trading arrangements. “Today marks the end of what has been the privilege of my lifetime — to serve as the first minister of Northern Ireland,” Givan told reporters in Belfast. Givan’s departure ...

  Bloomberg Thousands of additional US and allied soldiers on the ground in Eastern Europe may not alter Russia’s military calculus on Ukraine. But the commitment is a boon to Nato member states near Russia’s border. From Washington to Paris, governments have vowed to boost readiness and dispatch troops and hardware to deter Russia from attacking Ukraine —and show solidarity ...

  Bloomberg Donald Trump said Capitol Police officers who sued him over injuries they sustained during the January 6 riot are “grasping at straws” to link him to the attack, arguing they should blame Washington’s mayor and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi instead. The former president made the argument in a filing late Monday seeking dismissal of a suit accusing him ...

  Bloomberg Boris Johnson said he’ll publish the full civil service investigation into allegations of rule-breaking parties on Downing Street during Covid-19 lockdowns over the past two years, as his office also vowed to divulge details of any future fines potentially levied on the UK prime minister over his involvement. The senior civil servant in charge of the internal probe, ...

  Bloomberg A new Pentagon report on the performance of billions of dollars in US weapons is marred by widespread use of a new designation that appears intended to suppress bad news under the guise of national security, according to Senator Elizabeth Warren. The Defense Department’s testing office issued two versions of its annual report last week —one posted online ...

  Bloomberg Guinea-Bissau’s President Umaro Sissoco Embalo said the situation was under control after the West African regional bloc urged soldiers to return to their barracks in a bid to prevent what could become the fourth armed coup in one of its member-nations in less than a year. “I’m fine,” Embalo said in a tweet, hours after automatic gunfire erupted ...

  Bloomberg The US issued fresh sanctions against people and entities linked to Myanmar’s military that seized control of the government a year ago, with President Joe Biden warning “further costs” will be imposed as long the junta doesn’t hold elections. Seven people including Myanmar government officials and businessmen as well as a private logistics company and an army-run procurement ...