Politics

Bloomberg Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s political party has urged him to run for vice president in the 2022 elections, charting a possible path for him to stay in a top government post after his term ends next year. Duterte’s political party PDP-Laban passed a resolution that also urges him to choose a presidential candidate, according to the group’s live-streamed assembly. ...

Bloomberg Colombia President Ivan Duque deployed more troops to the city of Cali and the surrounding region after violent clashes that have left at least 14 dead since Friday. More than 1,100 soldiers arrived to ensure the security and mobility of the population, according to a presidential statement. The government added 25 military patrols in areas of the country’s third-largest ...

Bloomberg A decision by the US to ban imports of seafood from Dalian Ocean Fishing Co is based on “lies” that the Chinese company used forced labour, according to the Communist Party-backed Global Times. The paper cited experts who said the US is widening its move against Chinese industries after allegations of forced labour by companies in the Xinjiang region. ...

Bloomberg France will pull troops out of Mali if the country moves towards radicalism, President Emmanuel Macron said in an interview with Le Journal du Dimanche. Macron told the newspaper during a trip to Africa that he had warned leaders in the west of the continent that the French government will not stand by a country where there is no ...

Bloomberg Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades’s center-right Disy party recorded its worst results in parliamentary elections in 40 years, as voters vented their frustration over the government’s handling of the country’s “golden passport” program. With presidential elections due in 2023, support for Disy fell to between 24% and 28% compared with 30.7% in the last vote in 2016, according to initial ...

Bloomberg Malaysia announced a two-week nationwide lockdown to curb a relentless surge in Covid cases. Only essential economic and service sectors will be allowed to operate from June 1-14, the Prime Minister’s Office said in a statement, days after Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin had ruled out a repeat of last year’s lockdown. The government will soon announce an aid package ...

Bloomberg Germany’s Green party declined for a second consecutive week and Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative bloc clawed back support, four months before the country goes to the polls. Support for the Greens fell to 22% while Merkel’s Christian Democratic-led bloc rose 1 percentage point to 25% in the weekly Insa poll for Bild am Sonntag. It was the second 1-point ...

Bloomberg The Biden administration announced it would re-impose sanctions against nine Belarusian state-owned enterprises and is developing additional penalties to target officials in the administration of President Alexander Lukashenko over the forced landing of a Ryanair Holdings Plc jetliner and the arrest of a dissident journalist. The administration has also issued a “Do Not Travel” warning to American citizens urging ...

Bloomberg A Hong Kong appeal board endorsed a decision by the city’s police to ban a candlelight vigil for victims of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown. In a hearing, the Appeal Board on Public Meetings and Processions upheld the police decision to prohibit a public meeting and procession on May 30, and the assembly on June 4, according to a ...

Bloomberg The European Union is becoming increasingly frustrated with the UK’s unwillingness to meet its obligations on Northern Ireland and has set its sights on a proposed meeting in the week of June 7 to settle differences, Commission Vice President Maros Sefcovic told the Financial Times. Sefcovic said that he wants both sides to agree on a joint “road map” ...