Politics

Bloomberg The activist coalition that backs Sudan’s civilian wing of government said the army should cede chairmanship of the country’s joint military-civilian sovereign council by November 17. A civilian should assume leadership of the council by that date, leading member of the Forces of Freedom and Change alliance, Mohamed Nagi Alassam, said, citing calculations based on previous pacts between activists, ...

Bloomberg President Joe Biden’s envoy for North Korea reiterated the US is ready for dialog without preconditions, urging the country to respond to its offers, Yonhap reported. The US has made it clear it has no hostile intention at all, Yonhap said, citing US Special Representative for North Korea Sung Kim. He spoke after meeting South Korea’s Special Representative for ...

Bloomberg A powerful Pacific storm slammed into California and the Pacific Northwest bringing crashing surf, flooding rains that could touch off mudslides, and heavy snow across the region’s higher elevations. Drenching rain has already fallen in northern California, with parts of Marin County, north of San Francisco, getting 5.68 inches, said Scott Rowe, a National Weather Service meteorologist. Flood, wind, ...

Bloomberg The UK government said negotiations with the European Union over the Northern Ireland Protocol need solutions “urgently” ahead of new talks aimed at closing key disagreements between the parties. A team from the EU Commission will travel to London, after which Brexit Minister David Frost and the Commission Vice-President Maros Sefcovic are due to meet and take stock of ...

Bloomberg A caravan of migrants pushed past Mexican security forces near the city of Tapachula in Southern Chiapas state, as the group continued its route north toward the country’s capital. The group of several thousand people, including women and children, pushed past national guard clad in riot gear that had attempted to block the group’s passage, footage from local news ...

Bloomberg Former President Barack Obama waded into Virgina’s gubernatorial race, criticising Republican candidate Glenn Youngkin for supporting “phony, trumped-up culture wars” in his bid to flip the state. Speaking at a rally in Richmond for Democrat Terry McAuliffe, Obama said Youngkin was seeking to win by signalling support for baseless claims about fraud in the 2020 election that led to ...

Bloomberg US officials encountered more than 1.7 million migrants crossing the border with Mexico over the past year—a record number likely to escalate Republican attacks on the Biden administration’s handling of immigration. US Customs and Border Protection reported 1.73 million southwest border encounters overall, but many were making repeat attempts, the agency said. CBP’s Border Patrol conducted 1.66 million of ...

Bloomberg A US-led airstrike in northwest Syria killed senior al-Qaeda leader Abdul Hamid al-Matar, according to the US Central Command. The strike was conducted in the vicinity of Suluk using an MQ-9 aircraft, US Army Major John Rigsbee said in a statement. There have been no indications of civilian casualties, he added. “The removal of this al-Qaeda senior leader will ...

Bloomberg The Biden administration said it will release more records related to the assassination of President John F Kennedy in December. Some of the information regarding Kennedy’s death on November 22, 1963, remained off limits to “protect against an identifiable harm to the military defense, intelligence operations, law enforcement, or the conduct of foreign relations that is of such gravity ...

Bloomberg Liz Truss warned of the importance of not becoming overly reliant upon China, in an indication of her priorities as the UK’s new foreign secretary. The UK intends to “build a network of liberty” with nations with similar values of democracy and free markets, while also keeping strong economic links with the superpower, Truss told the Telegraph in an ...