Politics

Bloomberg Somalia’s leaders failed to reach consensus after a three-day meeting to address obstacles to holding presidential elections next week, raising the prospect of a political crisis in the Horn of Africa country. The outcome of the meeting in the city of Dhusamareeb is a clear indication it won’t be possible to hold elections as scheduled, Parliament Speaker Mohamed Mursal ...

Bloomberg Tens of thousands of protesting Indian farmers have blocked highways across the country in defiance of the government’s internet and phone blackout, facing off against a heavy security deployment stationed behind rows of razor wire and concrete blocks. They’re demanding a repeal of laws pushed through parliament by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government last year that they claim favour ...

Bloomberg Myanmar authorities filed criminal charges against former leader Aung San Suu Kyi for possessing illegally imported walkie-talkies just days after the military ousted her government in a coup. Suu Kyi was charged for breaching an import-export law and faces as many as three years in prison if convicted. The police incident report indicated that unauthorised telecommunications equipment was found ...

Bloomberg President Joe Biden ordered a review and possible repeal of Trump-era policies intended to deter illegal migration at the US-Mexico border and make it harder to legally obtain immigrant visas. The trio of directives, which Biden signed Tuesday, also creates a task force led by the Department of Homeland Security to reunite families separated by President Donald Trump’s so-called ...

Bloomberg Russia imprisoned opposition leader Alexey Navalny for two years and eight months, drawing condemnation from Western leaders as President Vladimir Putin seeks to crush a resurgence in protests against his rule. A Moscow court converted a suspended sentence that Navalny, 44, received for a 2014 fraud conviction into a prison term for alleged violations of his probation. His 3 ...

Bloomberg A World Health Organisation (WHO) scientific team in China to investigate the origins of the coronavirus visited the Wuhan laboratory that’s been at the center of months of speculation over how the disease jumped to humans. The international group of scientists arrived at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, home to a high-tech laboratory that studies some of the world’s ...

Bloomberg Mexican authorities arrested a dozen police officers in connection with the murder of 19 people in Tamaulipas state, according to local Attorney General Irving Barrios Mojica. The officers were charged with homicide, abuse of authority and giving false statements, Barrios said. Interior Minister Olga Sanchez, who is standing in at daily press briefings for President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador ...

Bloomberg Supporters of Myanmar’s military rallied in the nation’s largest city as it moved to suspend all flights through April, raising fresh concerns about the army’s crackdown a day after it seized power in a coup and detained senior government officials and activists. The rally in the commercial capital Yangon is the first since de facto leader Aung San Suu ...

Bloomberg Myanmar’s military detained Aung San Suu Kyi, declared a state of emergency for a year and voided her party’s landslide November election victory in a setback for the country’s nascent transition to democracy. Army chief Min Aung Hlaing’s office said he took the action in response to alleged voter fraud and military would hold a “free and fair general ...

Bloomberg President Joe Biden’s administration is setting up its trade policy to prioritise enforcement of existing commitments by the US’s partners over negotiating more deals to open new export markets. Biden’s likely strategy for supporting American producers focuses on going after violations via dialogue, work with allies and use of dispute-resolution mechanisms in existing trade agreements rather than following the ...