Politics

Bloomberg Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s performance rating plunged, according to the latest poll, with the pandemic continuing to challenge the country’s resilience. Net satisfaction with the president fell 10 points to 52% in the third quarter, according to Social Weather Stations. That compares with 62% in June 2021 and is the lowest since Duterte’s 45% rating in June 2018. While ...

Bloomberg UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson warned that France may already be violating the terms of the post-Brexit trade deal and hinted at retaliation if Paris refuses to back down in a dispute over fishing rights. “We are a bit worried that France may be about to become in breach, or is already in breach,” Johnson said to broadcasters at ...

Bloomberg Hundreds of thousands of pro-democracy demonstrators marched across cities in Sudan to protest the toppling of the joint civilian-military government by the army. Since the military removed the government led by Abdalla Hamdok as prime minister, doctors, oil workers, academics, bankers and others have staged protests. That’s thrown the North African nation’s democratic transition into chaos two years after ...

Bloomberg China condemned the US’s latest overture towards Taiwan, warning that ties between the two countries faced “huge risks” just weeks after Presidents Joe Biden and Xi Jinping agreed to hold a video summit. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s call for greater participation by Taiwan in UN organisations violated the “one China” understanding between Beijing and Washington, Foreign Ministry ...

Bloomberg Julian Assange won’t face solitary confinement or supermax prison in Colorado if he’s jailed in the US, as lawyers for the country argued his extradition shouldn’t have been blocked by a London judge on mental health grounds. The US laid out several assurances over his potential confinement and access to psychological treatment at the start of the London appeal ...

Bloomberg The Sudanese prime minister arrested in the military coup was returned to his home but remains under close guard, the Information Ministry said. Abdalla Hamdok was allowed to go back to his residence in the capital, Khartoum, the ministry said on its Facebook page. A number of government ministers and political leaders are still being held at unspecified locations, ...

Bloomberg China pledged to help the Taliban “rebuild the country” while reiterating calls for the US to lift sanctions against the new leaders of Afghanistan as the economy worsens. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi made the remarks to a Taliban delegation in Doha, Qatar, during the first high-level meeting between Beijing and the Taliban since it formed an interim government ...

Bloomberg Sudan’s military leader said the prime minister arrested was safe and staying with him at his home, as he looked to quell international criticism over the army’s seizure of power. Premier Abdalla Hamdok is being held for his own safety and will return home “today or tomorrow,” Abdel Fattah al-Burhan told reporters Tuesday in the capital. Khartoum. The detention ...

Bloomberg Myanmar didn’t show up at an annual summit of Southeast Asian countries after rejecting an invitation to send a non-political representative instead of its junta leader, a move that isolates its government internationally as it grapples with civil strife back home. The Association of the Southeast Asian Nations took a rare step earlier this month in excluding military leader ...

Bloomberg New Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s ruling party was dealt a blow when it lost one of two upper house special elections, which are serving as a barometer of support ahead of a national general election in a week. In a setback to the premier, opposition-backed Shinnosuke Yamazaki was projected by public broadcaster NHK and Kyodo News as the ...