Politics

Bloomberg President Joe Biden signs an executive order mandating federal departments and agencies increase efforts to help Americans register to vote, as the White House looks for ways to offset Republican efforts to toughen voting standards. The executive action will direct federal facilities to accept requests from states — which each run their own voter processes — to become registration ...

Bloomberg A senior official in South Africa’s ruling party said the government should reject an attempt to impeach the country’s public prosecutor, according to the Sunday Times. According to Ace Magashule, a motion to investigate Busisiwe Mkhwebane is a strategy by the main opposition party to divide the governing African National Congress. The motion from the opposition Democratic Alliance for ...

Bloomberg Anti-government activists in Senegal announced three days of nationwide protests from Monday as death toll in most violent demonstrations in years rise to five, triggered by the arrest of the country’s main opposition leader. The opposition called on Senegalese people “to pursue its mobilisation and peaceful struggle by using all of its constitutional rights to reject dictatorship of Macky ...

Bloomberg Paraguay’s President Mario Abdo Benitez said he will name new cabinet ministers amid unrest over his government’s handling of the pandemic that has left at least one person dead. In an address to the nation, Abdo Benitez said he would name a new cabinet chief as well as new health and education ministers in the coming hours “for the ...

Bloomberg Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan won a confidence vote in Parliament, ending a week of political turmoil and giving a boost to his fragile government. Khan got 178 votes from members of his Tehreek-e-Insaf party and allies in the 342-seat lower house National Assembly, proving the majority, Speaker Asad Qaiser said in televised meeting in Islamabad. The army-backed former ...

Bloomberg Four people died in clashes between Senegalese police and protesters during what the interior minister described as an “organised insurrection” following the arrest of the country’s main opposition leader. “We regret and condemn these terrorist acts, looting, pillaging and damage to public buildings,” Interior Minister Antoine Felix Diome said in a televised address. Diome confirmed that four people had ...

Bloomberg For almost a quarter of a century, Hong Kong stood as the one place under Beijing’s rule with open elections. A landslide loss just over a year ago may have finally convinced China to end the experiment in democracy. In late 2019, Hong Kong’s democratic opposition rode the momentum of historic protests to win an unprecedented 85% of the ...

Bloomberg Senator Ted Cruz is delaying William Burns’s confirmation as CIA director to demand that the Biden administration do more to halt the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, as Republicans seek to ramp up pressure now that construction has resumed. The move by the Texas Republican will delay, but not stop, Burns’s path to lead the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). ...

Bloomberg A Congressman who helped lead the second impeachment of Donald Trump filed a lawsuit alleging the former president incited a mob that took over the US Capitol and disrupted the certification of the 2020 election. Representative Eric Swalwell, a California Democrat, filed the suit in federal court. It’s the latest sign of legal peril for Trump over his role ...

Bloomberg South Korean President Moon Jae-in called for the immediate release of Aung San Suu Kyi and other political detainees in Myanmar, while the United Nation’s Security Council is reviewing measures to take in response to the military coup in the Southeast Asian country. “Use of violence against the people of Myanmar must stop now,” Moon said in a post ...