Politics

Bloomberg Malian Vice President Assimi Goita said he fired the nation’s president and prime minister, hours after the two men were detained by mutinous soldiers. “In light of recent events, I feel obliged to relieve the president and prime minister of their functions to defend the republic,” Goita said in a statement read on state television on Tuesday by Baba ...

Bloomberg President Joe Biden will meet Russian President Vladimir Putin in Geneva on June 16, the first summit between the two leaders since the American president took office. “The leaders will discuss the full range of pressing issues, as we seek to restore predictability and stability to the US-Russia relationship,” White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said in a statement ...

Bloomberg Police visited Twitter Inc’s empty offices in India following the company’s decision to label multiple tweets from accounts linked to the country’s ruling party as manipulated media. The unexpected visit happened late Monday after Twitter labelled multiple tweets for violating its synthetic and manipulated media policy, a person familiar with the matter confirmed. The policy forbids users from sharing ...

Bloomberg US Secretary of State Antony Blinken kicked off a Middle East diplomatic mission with a pledge to help reconstruction efforts in Gaza, left battered after a destructive 11-day conflict with Israel. Standing next to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem, Blinken said he will specify an aid package to the Palestinians later on Tuesday. The US will ensure ...

Bloomberg Two light rail transit trains collided at an underground section near the famed Petronas twin towers in Kuala Lumpur, injuring more than 200 passengers in a rare mishap that has prompted a full government probe. No deaths were reported while 47 passengers sustained serious injuries, Bernama cited Dang Wangi District Police chief Mohamad Zainal Abdullah as saying. The collision ...

Bloomberg Backed by the US, European Union (EU) leaders moved to impose new sanctions on Belarus over the forced landing of a Ryanair Holdings Plc jet and the arrest of a dissident journalist. “It’s piracy,” German Finance Minister and Vice Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Tuesday in a Bloomberg webinar. “I’m really, really angry about what happened and we cannot ...

Bloomberg Russia dismissed European Union (EU) and US outrage at the forced landing of a Ryanair Holdings Plc plane in Minsk by Belarusian authorities who arrested a journalist on board. The European Union will consider further sanctions against President Alexander Lukashenko’s administration when its leaders meet for dinner in Brussels for the start of a two-day summit. The EU was ...

Bloomberg US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will travel to the Middle East, President Joe Biden said, as the US continues to try to cement a fragile cease-fire that ended renewed conflict in Gaza. Biden announced the trip in a written statement on Monday morning, tasking Blinken with building ties with both Israelis and Palestinians. Blinken will visit Jerusalem, Ramallah, ...

Bloomberg The US imposed “wide-ranging” economic sanctions against Ethiopia to push the African nation led by a Nobel laureate to end violence in Tigray that has killed thousands of people and displaced hundreds of thousands more. Visas to government and military officials from Ethiopia and its neighbour Eritrea, which is also involved in the violence in Tigray, will be restricted, ...

Bloomberg Myanmar’s detained civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi vowed her pro-democracy political party would continue its work despite being slated for dissolution in her first public appearance since her government was overthrown in a military coup. In a message passed to her lawyers ahead of a court appearance in the capital Naypyidaw on Monday, she said the National League ...