Politics

Bloomberg The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) approved a UK-drafted resolution calling for local cease-fires in conflict zones so that coronavirus vaccinations can take place. The passage of the resolution, which calls for cooperation to overcome “logistical barriers to equitable access,” was seen as an early sign of cooperation between the new Biden administration and China, which supported the document ...

Bloomberg Donald Trump’s niece is balking at the former president’s claim that she waited too long to file her multi-million dollar fraud suit against him, saying she would have sued sooner if he hadn’t covered his tracks so well. Mary Trump asked a judge to deny Donald Trump’s motion to dismiss the suit, which she filed in September against her ...

Bloomberg Ethiopia’s government criticised a report by Amnesty International that alleged war crimes in the northern town of Axum last year. Amnesty said that Eritrean troops massacred hundreds of unarmed civilians in November. It based its conclusions on interviews with 41 survivors and witnesses. The methodology used to produce report had “limitations” as it relied on information gathered from refugees ...

Bloomberg Joe Biden and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said their nations would adopt a unified approach toward the pandemic, climate change and China, setting aside trade and other tensions in what the White House called the new US president’s first bilateral meeting. After about a two-hour virtual meeting between the two leaders and their staffs, Biden said that they ...

Bloomberg Republican Mitt Romney said Donald Trump likely would win the GOP presidential nomination if he decided to run again in 2024. The Utah senator, the only Republican who voted to convict Trump in both of his impeachment trials, said he expects the former president will continue to play a big role in the Republican Party even though he was ...

Bloomberg Tens of thousands of Republicans have left the party in the weeks since the January 6 riot at the US Capitol, a move that sidelines members who could have loosened Donald Trump’s ever-tightening grip on the GOP. In six key states, 57,000 voters have quit the GOP, becoming Democrats, Libertarians or just unaffiliated, according to a Bloomberg analysis. Nationally, ...

Bloomberg China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) trained Hong Kong police cadets on a style of marching that’s used in the mainland for ceremonies, paving the way for the city to take another symbolic step toward shedding its British colonial past. China’s PLA garrison in Hong Kong recently conducted the training to help enhance the local police force’s knowledge and skills ...

Bloomberg President Joe Biden seeks to repair relations with Canada that have been strained by disputes over trade and an oil pipeline as he meets virtually with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. The two leaders plan to unveil a road map on how to improve cooperation on a range of topics, from global alliances to the coronavirus, according to a senior ...

Bloomberg China’s President Xi Jinping may visit India in the second half of 2021 amid ongoing border tensions, to attend a meeting of the BRICS group, the Times of India reported without saying where it got the information. China has supported India’s hosting the meeting of heads of state of the grouping which also includes Brazil, South Africa and Russia, ...

Bloomberg Former South African President Jacob Zuma’s trial on corruption, money laundering and racketeering charges that date back to the 1990s will begin on May 17, after the courts rejected his repeated applications to have the case dismissed. The case against the 78-year-old resumed briefly in the High Court in the eastern town of Pietermaritzburg on Tuesday, where the trial ...