Politics

Bloomberg Former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger said the incoming Biden administration should move quickly to restore lines of communication with China that frayed during the Trump years or risk a crisis that could escalate into military conflict. “Unless there is some basis for some cooperative action, the world will slide into a catastrophe comparable to World War I,” ...

Bloomberg An attorney working for President Donald Trump’s campaign on an election lawsuit said she’s being harassed for her work, including by a lawyer from a firm representing the state of Pennsylvania. Linda Kerns, who leads her own law firm in Philadelphia, said in a court filing that an attorney with Kirkland & Ellis in Washington left her a one-minute ...

Bloomberg Ethiopia said its army advanced on the capital of the rebellious Tigray region as the conflict spread beyond the nation’s borders. The government claimed its forces captured the town of Alamata in southern Tigray over the weekend, building on the seizure of other towns in the west. The region’s ruling Tigray People’s Liberation Front said it’s also being attacked ...

Bloomberg President Donald Trump appeared to accept for the first time that Joe Biden had been elected the next president, tweeting on Sunday that the Democrat “won because the Election was Rigged.” “NO VOTE WATCHERS OR OBSERVERS allowed, vote tabulated by a Radical Left privately owned company, Dominion, with a bad reputation & bum equipment that couldn’t even qualify for ...

Bloomberg The leader of the Tigray region said his forces fired rockets at neighbouring Eritrea as the growing regional conflict in Ethiopia spreads beyond its borders. Tigray President Debretsion Gebremichael confirmed the shelling of Eritrea, and said in a text message that the Tigray People’s Liberation Front was fighting 16 Eritrean divisions, without offering proof. He also confirmed a missile ...

Bloomberg Brazilians are about to find out whether their popular president is able to get political allies elected in Sunday’s municipal vote. The nation of 200 million is choosing mayors and city councilors in elections that will serve as a sort of a referendum on the first half of President Jair Bolsonaro’s four-year mandate. Polls opened at 7 am local ...

Bloomberg The UK hinted that Brexit talks could stretch out beyond this week as the two sides struggle to overcome the key barriers to reaching a trade deal. While officials from both sides of the Brexit divide agree the coming week is crucial, negotiations over a trade agreement have already passed a number of informal deadlines. Britain’s chief Brexit negotiator ...

Bloomberg President Donald Trump’s appointment of Christopher Miller, a former Green Beret and White House counterterrorism coordinator, as acting defense secretary raises “two layers of fear,” the head of the House Armed Services panel said. The first is the “incredibly steep learning curve” on global military operations, options and controversies that Miller faces after Trump’s dismissal-by-tweet of Mark Esper as ...

Bloomberg President-elect Joe Biden shrugged off Donald Trump’s effort to challenge the election results, forging ahead with transition planning even as the president pursues a multi-state legal fight backed by Republican allies and the Justice Department. Trump’s campaign said it would file a federal lawsuit in Michigan that seeks to stop the state’s top election official from certifying Biden’s win. ...

Bloomberg Ethiopia’s government said its forces killed at least 550 fighters loyal to the ruling party of the northern Tigray region, as the African Union called for an immediate ceasefire. Fighting is continuing in Tigray a week after federal troops began an incursion into the region in retaliation for an attack on one of its army camps in the region. ...