Politics

Bloomberg European Union (EU) ambassadors approved sanctions against four senior Russian law enforcement officials over the jailing of opposition leader Alexey Navalny, according to three people familiar with the decision. The restrictive measures are expected to be formally adopted by the bloc’s 27 capitals in a written procedure this week, said one of the people, who asked not to be ...

Bloomberg Donald Trump didn’t formally announce his candidacy for president at the year’s marquee conservative gathering, but inched close enough to effectively freeze the 2024 Republican field and put would-be rivals on notice that he remains both king and kingmaker. The former president’s central argument at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Orlando, Florida, was that he’s the best candidate ...

Bloomberg Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban threatened to finalise the divorce between his Fidesz party and the European Union’s biggest political group after a long feud over democratic norms. The European People’s Party (EPP) is considering tightening rules that govern its membership, making it easier to expel parties that fall short of fundamental freedoms and values. EU leaders will likely ...

Bloomberg Allies of President Nayib Bukele were on track to win a landslide in El Salvador congressional elections, according to a partial vote count. Bukele’s Nuevas Ideas party and its allies appeared to have secured about two thirds of votes cast, according to a chart published by the electoral authority more than six hours after polls closed, with 13% of ...

Bloomberg At least five people died as Myanmar’s military government cracked down on protests over the weekend, and escalated non-tolerance for dissent with the ouster of the country’s representative to the United Nations along with the arrests of journalists and hundreds of demonstrators. Police in the city of Dawei in southern Myanmar opened fire into a crowd on Sunday, killing ...

Bloomberg President Joe Biden provided an official explanation of the airstrike that targeted Iranian-backed fighters in eastern Syria, saying he was using his authority to deter attacks on US and allied personnel in Iraq. Biden’s letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Patrick Leahy, president pro tempore of the Senate, follows criticism by some Democrats of the circumstances of his ...

Bloomberg After the deadliest fighting in decades, India and China are setting up demilitarised areas along their Himalayan border — a move that has rankled some members of India’s security establishment. Soldiers from both countries for now will no longer patrol a nine-kilometer (six-mile) stretch on the north bank of Pangong Tso, a glacial lake some 14,000 feet above sea ...

Bloomberg Hong Kong police charged dozens of opposition activists including Joshua Wong with violating the city’s national security law, taking formal action against them less than a week before China’s highest-profile annual political meeting. Of the 55 opposition figures initially arrested in January, 47 were charged with conspiracy to commit subversion on Sunday. They had previously been facing allegations of ...

Bloomberg A string of mass abductions is disrupting education in Africa’s most populous country, which already ranks among places with one of the highest number of out-of-school children globally. In the most recent incident, armed men on motorbikes seized 317 girls at a school in the northern state of Zamfara. The students were taken into a forest, where they are ...

Bloomberg President Joe Biden said US airstrikes in Syria that killed militants linked to Iran were a warning to the Islamic Republic to be cautious as its proxies challenge American allies in the Mideast. Asked while visiting a National Guard vaccination site in Houston what message the strike was intended to send to Iran, Biden said: “You can’t act with ...