Politics

Bloomberg President Vladimir Putin brushed off a request by Chancellor Angela Merkel to exercise his influence over Belarus as the European Union prepares a fresh raft of sanctions against the regime in Minsk for channeling thousands of migrants to the bloc’s border. With footage of clashes on Poland’s frontier with Belarus and EU leaders accusing the country’s president, Aleksander Lukashenko, ...

Bloomberg An American journalist faces new charges of terrorism and sedition nearly six months after he was detained by the military junta, his lawyer said, dealing a fresh blow to US efforts to free him. Danny Fenster, managing editor of Frontier Myanmar news outlet, could face a maximum sentence of life in prison if he is found in breach of ...

Bloomberg Former President Donald Trump failed to block the release of documents sought by a US House panel investigating the January 6 Capitol riot. US District Judge Tanya Chutkan in Washington denied Trump’s request for an injunction, saying “public interest lies in permitting — not enjoining — the combined will of the legislative and executive branches to study the events ...

Bloomberg UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson is battling a mounting backlash over his attempt to protect a Conservative lawmaker found to have broken lobbying rules, with Parliament set to hold an emergency debate. Johnson was forced to perform a U-turn following widespread condemnation — including from fellow Tories — of his decision to try to tear up Parliament rules rather ...

Bloomberg The African Union’s special envoy held talks with a top Tigray official on the civil war engulfing Ethiopia. The discussions, which took place at an undisclosed location, were “fruitful,” Tigray People’s Liberation Front official Getachew Reda said on Twitter. African Union Special Envoy Olusegun Obasanjo, a former Nigerian president, travelled to Ethiopia last week to help mediate an end ...

Bloomberg Nicaraguan leader Daniel Ortega is on course for a landslide in Sunday’s presidential election after he jailed his main opponents. With nearly half of ballots tallied, the 75-year-old former guerrilla had 75% of the votes, according to a partial count by the electoral authority published in state-run-newspaper El 19. The US, the European Parliament and Human Rights Watch have ...

Bloomberg Polish officials warned of intensified tensions at its eastern border as hundreds of migrants gathering at the Belarusian side are expected to try to enter European Union country in one group. “We’re now seeing the largest attempt of mass forced entry into Poland,” Stanislaw Zaryn, the spokesman for the country’s secret services chief, said on Twitter on Monday. He ...

Bloomberg Germany’s Social Democrats (SPD) nominated one of the main architects of their victory in September’s election to take over as party co-leader, and played down suggestions that their goal of forming a new government by early December is at risk. Top SPD officials meeting in Berlin on Monday proposed Lars Klingbeil, general secretary since 2017 and a close ally of ...

Bloomberg UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson is facing growing criticism over his party’s conduct, as a former Conservative prime minister and opposition members speak out against him following a lobbying scandal. Johnson is “trashing the reputation of our democracy,” opposition leader Keir Starmer said in a BBC interview, after the prime minister outlined plans to overhaul rules on politicians’ behavior ...

Bloomberg North Korea conducted an artillery fire drill that could target its rival Korea’s heavily populated capital, after Washington and Seoul kicked off joint military aerial exercises despite Pyongyang’s rebuke. North Korea’s mechanised troops held an “artillery fire competition” to boost the country’s “mobile artillery combat capabilities,” state-run Korean Central News Agency said on Sunday. The country’s leader, Kim Jong-un, ...