Politics

Bloomberg Donald Trump is spending his first months as an ex-president trying to ensure that he’s remembered the way he wants — but he’s holding off on plans to establish a library that would enshrine his version of his presidency. Refusing to cede the limelight, the former president has issued almost daily statements, set up a website and turned up ...

Bloomberg Kosovo lawmakers approved US educated jurist Vjosa Osmani as president, filling the post previously held by an ex-guerrilla who stepped down last year to face charges on war crimes. Osmani, 38, was elected with the backing of Premier Albin Kurti, whose anti-establishment Self-Determination Movement won February 14 elections. Both represent a new generation of leaders in the landlocked Balkan ...

Bloomberg Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov’s party won Sunday’s general elections, but thorny ties with his political rivals complicated his path to a fourth term as leader of the European Union’s poorest and most corrupt member. Already one of the EU’s longest-serving leaders, the former bodyguard of the Balkan state’s last communist dictator capitalised on support from conservative voters drawn ...

Bloomberg Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny risks dying in prison as he continues a hunger strike to press authorities into allowing him proper medical care, an ally said. Navalny, 44, began refusing food on Wednesday to demand treatment for acute pain in his back that’s spreading to his legs, and an end to prison guards waking him each hour. He ...

Bloomberg Maoist rebels killed at least 22 Indian security personnel in an ambush in the central state of Chhattisgarh, according to local newswire Press Trust of India (PTI). The incident happened when a joint security team including the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) engaged with armed guerrillas in forested areas along Bijapur and Sukma districts on April 3, PTI reported, ...

Bloomberg The presence of China’s “maritime militia” near a South China Sea reef shows Beijing’s intent to occupy more disputed areas, Philippine Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana said in a statement on Sunday. China has “done this before” in other contested areas like Scarborough Shoal and is “brazenly violating Philippine sovereignty,” Lorenzana said. He was reacting to a statement from China’s ...

Bloomberg Scottish nationalist parties could win a pro-independence “supermajority” in the May election, according to the latest opinion poll, which shows unionist parties suffering the most from the creation of a new separatist party last month. First Minister Nicola Sturgeon’s Scottish National Party is seen winning 65 seats on May 6, giving it an outright majority of one, according to ...

Bloomberg The US, Japan, and South Korea sounded alarm over North Korea’s nuclear and ballistic missile programs, following a series of short-range rocket tests last month signalling fresh provocation from Pyongyang. US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan hosted his Japanese and South Korean counterparts for talks at the US Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, and the trio said in a ...

Bloomberg US President Joseph Biden pledged to stand with Ukraine against Russian “aggression” in his first official phone call with his counterpart, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, who raised concerns of troop movement near the border. Biden “affirmed the United States’ unwavering support for Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity in the face of Russia’s ongoing aggression in the Donbas and Crimea,” the White ...

Bloomberg Liberians rejected a referendum backed by President George Weah which opposition feared could have been used to reset the clock and allow the former soccer star to extend his stay in office. The December 8 plebiscite, which sought to shorten presidential and senatorial term limits and allow dual citizenship, failed to achieve the two-thirds needed for the proposal to ...