Politics

Bloomberg Donald Trump began his public re-emergence with a rambling speech in which he aired longstanding grievances, highlighted his actions as president, and decried President Joe Biden and Democrats for undoing them. The former president spoke for about 90 minutes at the North Carolina Republican Party’s convention in Greenville. He’s expected to restart campaign-style rallies this summer, as Republicans look ...

Bloomberg President Vladimir Putin said Russia doesn’t want to stop using the dollar as he accused the US of exploiting the currency’s dominance for sanctions and warned the policy may rebound on Washington. Russia has to adopt other payment methods because the US “uses its national currency for various kinds of sanctions,” Putin said in St Petersburg at a videoconference ...

Bloomberg Suspected extremists killed at least 100 people and injured dozens more in an attack on a village in northern Burkina Faso, the government said. The attackers opened fire into a populated area of Solhan, President Roch Marc Christian Kabore said in a tweet. Several homes and the village’s market were burnt down, a government spokesman said in a separate ...

Bloomberg North Korean leader Kim Jong-un made his first public appearance in about a month, with state media showing him at a Party meeting that discussed ways to improve the country’s deteriorating economy. Kim, wearing his signature black Mao suit, said it was time to take “additional state measures for solving pending problems urgent for the economic work and people’s ...

Bloomberg Malaysia will summon China’s ambassador to protest flights by 16 air force planes over the South China Sea that Foreign Minister Hishammuddin Hussein says were a “breach of Malaysian airspace and sovereignty.” The “suspicious” Chinese aircraft were spotted near the East Malaysian state of Sarawak, the Royal Malaysian Air Force said in a statement. They entered the Malaysian maritime ...

Bloomberg Opposition politician Dmitry Gudkov, a former deputy in Russia’s lower house of parliament, was detained, Tass reported, citing unidentified people in law enforcement. Lera Gudkova, the politician’s wife, confirmed the detention via Facebook and said his aunt was also being held in the case. His detention comes amid a widening crackdown against opponents of President Vladimir Putin since Kremlin ...

Bloomberg President Joe Biden visited Tulsa to mark the 100th anniversary of a White mob’s destruction of the city’s once-thriving Black business district, where he said Vice President Kamala Harris would lead efforts to pass a new federal expansion of voting rights. Biden visited privately with survivors of the Tulsa race massacre, one of the worst episodes of racial violence ...

Bloomberg Budapest will rename the streets surrounding the planned campus of a Chinese university to protest against the project, which Hungary’s opposition says is emblematic of Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s drift from western democratic values. The streets in the capital’s industrial south, where Fudan University plans to set up a campus, will be renamed Uighur Martyrs street, Dalai Lama street ...

Bloomberg President Xi Jinping urged Chinese officials to create a “trustworthy, lovable and respectable” image for the country, in a sign that Beijing may be looking to smooth its hard-edged diplomatic approach. Xi told senior Communist Party leaders that the country must “make friends extensively, unite the majority and continuously expand its circle of friends with those who understand and ...

Bloomberg Myanmar’s junta has moved the nation’s civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi and ex-president Win Myint from their residences in the capital to an “unknown location,” according to allies who’ve expressed serious concerns for their safety. The two have been held by the country’s powerful military since it seized power in a coup on February 1. “We’ve heard from ...