Politics

Bloomberg The Biden administration’s first evacuation flight for Afghans who aided American and other coalition forces has arrived in the US, as the administration steps up efforts to relocate interpreters, other military assistants and their families ahead of a final troop withdrawal. The plane, carrying more than 200 people, landed at Fort Lee in Virginia, where passengers were to undergo ...

Bloomberg The final day for Malaysia’s special parliament sitting on Monday has been postponed indefinitely because of the risk from a recent outbreak of Covid cases. The deferment follows a risk assessment by the health ministry, which found that the parliament’s locality is at risk of the spread of infections, according to a letter from the House of Representatives secretary ...

Bloomberg President Joe Biden hosted a meeting at the White House with Cuban-American leaders to discuss the largest demonstrations in decades that erupted in Cuba earlier this month. The meeting came the same day the administration announced sanctions against a Cuban police force and its leaders in response to violence against the demonstrators. Biden told the group that additional penalties ...

Bloomberg Peru President Pedro Castillo named former World Bank economist Pedro Francke as his finance minister and swore him in following a delay that unnerved investors. Francke advised Castillo on economic policy during the campaign and vowed to largely maintain the country’s macro-economic policies while putting more focus on social issues. He’ll be tasked with trying to maintain investor confidence ...

Bloomberg President Jair Bolsonaro doubled down on his criticism of Brazil’s electronic voting system, presenting a series of conspiracy theories and debunked Internet videos as evidence that elections are vulnerable to cheating. During a nearly two-hour address late on Thursday, the far-right president attacked the electoral authority, which has requested he provide evidence of his repeated claims of voter fraud. ...

Bloomberg The latest swing of senior US officials through Asia indicates the Biden administration is taking a humbler tone in the region than the former president, with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken noting that every democracy was a “work in progress.” On his first official visit to India, Blinken sought common ground with New Delhi in their disputes with ...

Bloomberg Human Rights Watch is calling on Chile to stop “summary deportations” of Venezuelan citizens, saying those measures violate due process and international law. In June, Chile expelled 53 Venezuelans, some of whom were separated from family, had appeals pending or were denied phone calls or access to lawyer, Human Rights Watch said in a statement on Wednesday. Citizens of ...

Bloomberg Pedro Castillo, a former teacher from one of Peru’s most impoverished regions, takes office as the nation’s president with promises to redistribute wealth and rewrite the constitution that are likely to put him on a collision course with the political and business establishment. Castillo’s inauguration takes place in Lima on Wednesday morning, and was to be followed by the ...

Bloomberg Claims that Roman Abramovich, Chelsea Football Club Ltd’s billionaire owner, was directed to buy the team by Russian President Vladimir Putin to infiltrate the British political elite are “profoundly defamatory,” his lawyers said. Abramovich sued Catherine Belton, the author of “Putin’s People: How The KGB Took Back Russia And Then Took On The West,” which was published by Harper ...

Bloomberg American and European Union travellers who have been fully vaccinated against coronavirus will no longer need to spend 10 days in quarantine after they arrive in England. Under plans backed by British ministers on Wednesday, international leisure cruises will also resume after being put on hold for more than a year. The reforms to travel rules will allow visitors ...