Politics

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 ...

Bloomberg Russian prosecutors demanded opposition leader Alexey Navalny’s imprisonment, a day after police detained record numbers of protesters against President Vladimir Putin for a second straight weekend. The Prosecutor General’s Office said on Monday it agreed with the Federal Penitentiary Service that Navalny had repeatedly violated the conditions of a suspended 3 1/2 year sentence for fraud and should receive ...

Bloomberg Talks aimed at building support for a new Italian government pushed ahead with a deadline in sight, after consultations failed to produce a deal to end the deadlock that forced Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte to resign. Roberto Fico, the lower-house speaker tasked with sounding out parties, said Sunday afternoon that discussions with the forces from the outgoing coalition would ...

Bloomberg Former South African President Jacob Zuma said he will flout an order by the nation’s top court by refusing to cooperate with a judicial panel that’s probing graft during his rule, and dared the authorities to arrest him. “The Commission Into Allegations of State Capture can expect no further cooperation from me in any of their processes,” Zuma said ...

Bloomberg Supporters of jailed opposition leader Alexey Navalny are staging the second wave of national protests in a week as a Russian court prepares to hand President Vladimir Putin’s chief critic a possible 3 1/2 year prison term. Navalny, who defied threats of arrest to return in mid-January from Germany after a nerve-agent attack he said was an attempt by ...

Bloomberg Vietnam’s Communist Party re-elected Nguyen Phu Trong to a rare third term as general secretary, signalling no major shifts in the nation’s economic or geopolitical direction. The party’s newly elected central committee also elected 18 members of the Politburo, which in turn will nominate individual candidates to be prime minister, president and chair of the National Assembly. The parliament ...

Bloomberg A leader of South Africa’s biggest labour movement accused the ruling African National Congress (ANC) of failing to act on corruption, highlighting the fragility of a political alliance that’s been in place since the end of apartheid. “What is most concerning is the ANC’s refusal to engage on extending the ban on public servants and the executive from doing business ...

Bloomberg Joe Biden’s presidency began at a choreographed sprint, with a series of executive actions to erase Donald Trump’s legacy and reset the nation’s course. But as his first full week in office came to a close, the new president was discovering the limits of his power. His administration’s efforts to bolster vaccine production ran into the same hurdles that ...