Politics

  Bloomberg In the days before Christmas, US officials in Boston unveiled insider trading charges against a Russian tech tycoon they had been pursuing for months. They accused Vladislav Klyushin, who’d been extradited from Switzerland on Dec. 18, of illegally making tens of millions of dollars trading on hacked corporate-earnings information. Yet as authorities laid out their securities fraud case, ...

  Bloomberg Sudanese Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok resigned, saying that attempts to share power between the military and civilians had failed as deadly protests continued to rage against October’s coup. Without nationwide consensus on the way forward, the North African country risks sliding into chaos, Hamdok said in a televised address. His resignation, which had been expected for more than ...

  Bloomberg South Korea’s Moon Jae-in vowed to make another push for peace in his final months as president, despite fresh signs that Kim Jong Un has little interest in reciprocating. Moon used his last new year address as South Korea’s leader to press for a cause that has defined his political career. The former democracy campaigner and son of ...

  Bloomberg A third Hong Kong news outlet announced it would shut as the city installed a legislature vetted for loyalty to the Communist Party, in a stark illustration of Beijing’s success in silencing the local opposition. The milestones unfolded in dramatic split screen as Citizen News briefed reporters on its decision to close at midnight at the same time ...

  Bloomberg President Jair Bolsonaro was flown to a hospital in Sao Paulo in the early hours of Monday, cutting short his beach vacation after suffering from abdominal pain. Bolsonaro was admitted to the hospital to undergo clinical tests after feeling “abdominal discomfort,” his press office said in a note. The president had symptoms of intestinal obstruction, according to a ...

  Bloomberg Kim Jong un urged North Korea to focus on easing food shortages and containing Covid, in a downbeat New Year’s policy assessment that suggested nuclear talks with the US were a low priority for the coming months. Kim laid out his 2022 agenda in remarks to ruling party cadres that were published by state media and appeared to ...

Bloomberg President Joe Biden repeated his warning to Moscow to de-escalate the month-long standoff over Ukraine, a day after he and Vladimir Putin discussed the issue during a call the Russian leader expressed his satisfaction with. “I made it clear to President Putin that if he makes any more moves, goes into Ukraine, we will have severe sanctions,” Biden told ...

  Bloomberg Hong Kong’s biggest remaining pro-democracy news outlet closed after becoming the target of a national security investigation, capping a year of historic strokes by Beijing to silence dissent in the Asian financial center. Stand News announced on Wednesday on Facebook that it would immediately lay off all staff and cease operations, and take down its website and social ...

  Bloomberg Pressure is piling on President Jair Bolsonaro to provide more financial aid to Brazilian states affected by heavy rains that have left several cities underwater and thousands of people homeless. The president, who’s vacationing at a beach in the south of country, published a decree setting aside 200 million reais ($35.5 million) to rebuild highways and roads destroyed ...

  Bloomberg North Korea’s ruling party started a major policy meeting to lay out priorities for the coming year and how to respond to the Biden administration’s invitation to return to nuclear disarmament talks stalled for about two years. Leader Kim Jong-un attended the opening session of a Workers’ Party Central Committee meeting, the official Korean Central News Agency said. ...