Politics

Bloomberg China dismissed US warnings about the risk of doing business in Hong Kong as “pure nonsense,” saying sanctions won’t change its determination to safeguard national security. In similar statements, the Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office and Hong Kong Liaison Office condemned US President Joe Biden’s advisory that said China’s push to exert more control over the financial hub ...

Bloomberg President Joe Biden said the US will appeal a federal judge’s ruling that the DACA program protecting hundreds of thousands of “Dreamers” who came to the US as children was implemented unconstitutionally, and he renewed his call for Congress to agree on a permanent solution. “Yesterday’s Federal court ruling is deeply disappointing,” Biden said in a statement on Saturday. ...

Bloomberg A former official with Haiti’s Ministry of Justice gave the order to mercenaries to assassinate President Jovenel Moise, according to Colombian police. Three days before the murder, Joseph Felix Badio, who also formerly worked in an anti-corruption unit, told the leaders of the Colombian team that they were no longer going to arrest Moise but to kill him, Colombian ...

Bloomberg Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo urged for a “sense of crisis” among his ministers as the country becomes one of the worst hotspots in the world. Jokowi, as the president is known, also called off a paid vaccination plan and told state officials not to travel overseas after wide public backlash, urging them to exercise “social sensitivity,” Cabinet Secretary Pramono ...

Bloomberg Chancellor Angela Merkel plans to visit areas affected by Germany’s worst flooding in decades as the death toll exceeds 130 and hundreds remain unaccounted for, according to Bild am Sonntag. Merkel’s set to travel to Rhineland-Palatinate on Sunday, the newspaper said. Water levels remain high and houses continue to collapse in some areas. A government spokeswoman said the visit ...

Bloomberg A blast in a bus carrying workers in Pakistan’s northern Kohistan region killed 12 people including nine Chinese citizens, as concerns mount an advance by the Taliban in Afghanistan may disturb peace in across the region. Pakistan authorities said on Wednesday the blast was caused by a gas leak, however China condemned the explosion and called on Pakistan to ...

Bloomberg The northern Ethiopia conflict may be headed for a dangerous turn after Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s unilateral ceasefire failed and he backed calls to resist Tigray forces advancing to retake territory. The Tigray People’s Liberation Front, which federal troops had initially overrun after fighting that started in November, recaptured the state capital, Mekelle, and have taken back control of ...

Bloomberg Malaysian cabinet ministers on Wednesday unanimously pledged support for Muhyiddin Yassin to continue as the nation’s prime minister. The backing comes a week after the United Malays National Organisation, the largest party in the ruling coalition, retracted support for Muhyiddin and demanded he step down for failing to control the worsening Covid-19 situation, calling for a new leader to ...

Bloomberg Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido said heavily-armed security officers penetrated his apartment building, threatening him with arrest, and detained Freddy Guevara, a top lieutenant, in a separate operation. Surrounded by neighbours who came to support him, Guaido said the men coming for him had set off an explosive. He reported no injury. Those who took Guevara pointed long weapons ...

Bloomberg The US State Department cited the Chinese government’s crackdown on ethnic Uyghurs in the Xinjiang region as one of six places in the world that are witnessing or are at risk of atrocities and crimes against humanity, as the US explores new ways to try to prevent such violence. “The crimes against humanity include imprisonment, torture, enforced sterilisation and ...