Politics

Bloomberg Representative Liz Cheney said former President Donald Trump’s role in her ouster was “dangerous” and that she’ll do all she can to prevent a second Trump term. “We have to recognise what it means for the nation to have a former president who has not conceded and who continues to suggest that our electoral system cannot function,” Cheney said ...

Bloomberg Germany’s Greens narrowed the gap to Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative alliance to one percentage point in the latest Insa poll for Bild am Sonntag newspaper. Merkel’s CDU/CSU bloc retained the lead but lost half a point to 25% compared with the previous week’s survey, while the Greens gained half a point to 24%. The Social Democrats, the junior partners ...

Bloomberg Taiwan is racing to contain its worst outbreak of the coronavirus, aiming to protect public health while averting a full lockdown that could derail what has been one of the outstanding health and economic success stories of the pandemic. The government urged companies to allow staff to work from home or split locations after reporting a record 206 new ...

Bloomberg Zimbabwe Justice Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi has alleged “foreign interference” in the country’s judiciary following the High Court’s nullification of an extension of Chief Justice Luke Malaba’s term of office. The State will lodge an appeal on Monday to challenge the court ruling, he said. “I want to make it clear that we do not accept the decision of the ...

Bloomberg Edwin Poots, the newly elected leader of Northern Ireland’s Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), called on his supporters to fight against a Brexit deal that has angered unionists and given fresh impetus to calls for a united Ireland. Poots’s victory over rival Jeffrey Donaldson by 19 votes to 17 comes ahead of an expected summer of heightened tension in Northern ...

Bloomberg Chileans were heading to the polls in an unprecedented election to decide who would write the new constitution following a period of mass unrest, a vote that will shape the future of one of Latin America’s richest nations. Citizens will select the 155 members of the Constitutional Assembly that will draft a new charter over a year. Elections will ...

Bloomberg Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta’s ambitions of reshaping the nation’s political system as his final term draws to a close were dealt a body blow by a court ruling that he acted illegally in initiating the reforms. The High Court’s declaration may derail a planned referendum on sweeping proposals championed by Kenyatta and one-time foe and opposition leader Raila Odinga ...

Bloomberg Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government has begun preliminary internal discussions about reopening the border with the US, even as Canada remains well behind its neighbor in vaccinations. Senior officials have begun to formally talk about options for how to proceed, three people familiar with the matter said, speaking on the condition they not be identified. One question under consideration ...

Bloomberg For a nation mired in a pandemic for more than a year, the biggest step towards a return to normal came suddenly, even to President Joe Biden. After warning the country to stay vigilant amid the threat of coronavirus variants, the president found himself three days later striking a different tone, celebrating that the US had already reached a ...

Bloomberg President Joe Biden is preparing for his first face-to-face meeting with the top two congressional Republicans, Mitch McConnell and Kevin McCarthy, just as the GOP is ramping up opposition to his $4 trillion economic plan, a rallying point for the party amid infighting over allegiance to former President Donald Trump. After McConnell declared that he’s “100%” focused on blocking ...