Politics

Bloomberg President Joe Biden traveled to Michigan to underscore US progress in fighting Covid-19, part of a slate of Fourth of July weekend events by the administration to signal a return to pre-pandemic life. Biden picked a battleground state where he beat Donald Trump by 3 percentage points in the 2020 presidential election and where Democratic Governor Gretchen Whitmer has ...

Bloomberg The agreement on the Irish border struck as part of the UK’s exit from the European Union risks damaging Northern Ireland’s economy and should be withdrawn, Jeffrey Donaldson said in his first television interview since becoming head of the Democratic Unionist Party last month. Under the terms of the Brexit accord, Northern Ireland — unlike the rest of the ...

Bloomberg Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s political opponents stepped up their demands for a probe into India’s purchase of Rafale combat jets after France reportedly launched a judicial investigation into allegations of corruption in the deal. The Indian National Congress party on Sunday called for an investigation into the allegations, including changes in the terms of the contract for the 2016 ...

Bloomberg Hong Kong’s national security police took over the investigation into the stabbing of a policeman and cautioned citizens from mourning the attacker’s death, calling the incident a domestic terrorist attack on the 24th anniversary of the former British colony’s return to Chinese rule. The National Security Department, which investigates offenses that endanger national security, is now probing the July ...

Bloomberg China’s foreign minister expounded Beijing’s increasingly defiant stance on the international stage, taking several swipes at the US and underscoring much of the sentiment from last week’s centennial celebrations speech by President Xi Jinping. In a sweeping speech that touched on topics from the global pandemic to counterterrorism, North Korea to the Iran nuclear issue and Taiwan, Foreign Minister ...

Bloomberg Brazil’s prosecutor general office has requested the country’s top court to investigate President Jair Bolsonaro for possible negligence in the handling of corruption allegations related to the purchase of vaccines from India. Negotiations to buy the Covaxin shot produced by Bharat Biotech International Ltd turned into a scandal when a government ally said he had personally warned Bolsonaro that ...

Bloomberg Donald Tusk is spoiling for a fight to reverse Poland’s drift to the European Union’s fringe. The former president of the European Council announced on Saturday that he’s returning to lead his country’ biggest opposition group, the Civic Platform, which propelled him to two terms as prime minister and the top level of politics on the continent. The decision ...

Bloomberg Hurricane Elsa was expected to begin lashing Haiti and Dominican Republic on Saturday, touching off floods and landslides, as it moves across the Caribbean towards Cuba and Florida next week. The Atlantic’s first hurricane of 2021, Elsa had top winds of 75 miles per hour and was about 110 miles southeast of Isla Beata, Dominican Republic, the National Hurricane ...

Bloomberg President Vladimir Putin accused the US of involvement in what he termed a “provocation” by a British destroyer in the Black Sea last week, while saying the Russian navy could have sunk the vessel without igniting a new world war. Hours before the HMS Defender engaged in a stand-off with Russian ships and fighter jets off the coast of ...

Bloomberg Hong Kong ramped up security and warned activists against holding any demonstrations as the Asian financial centre prepares to mark a sensitive anniversary of the former British colony’s return to Chinese rule. The police urged the public in a statement on Wednesday not to participate in unauthorised assemblies after banning activists from holding a rally on July 1, traditionally ...