Politics

Bloomberg Hundreds of thousands of people have been ordered to evacuate in southern Japan, and companies including Toyota Motor Corp and Canon Inc are planning to shutter factories as Typhoon Haishen approaches. The Japan Meteorological Agency said the typhoon may make landfall on Kagoshima prefecture in the southern Kyushu island on Sunday evening. More than 46,000 households were without power ...

Bloomberg UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said Russia has a “case to answer” over the poisoning of opposition leader Alexei Navalny given its “track record,” and called for the Kremlin’s cooperation with an international investigation. Speaking to the BBC on Sunday, Raab said that while it’s too early to attribute blame, “it’s very difficult to come up with a plausible ...

Bloomberg Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden is expanding his transition team with senior campaign aides, vice presidential contenders and a former primary rival, two months before he faces President Donald Trump in the general election. Biden added four co-chairs to help former Delaware Senator Ted Kaufman oversee the effort. They include Anita Dunn, a senior adviser to the campaign; Representative ...

Bloomberg Hong Kong police arrested scores of people including key activists as protests again flared up on the city’s streets on Sunday after weeks of relative calm since the implementation of a national security law. At least 90 people were arrested on charges including illegal assembly, disorderly conduct, obstructing and assaulting police, according to the authority. More than 20 people ...

Bloomberg Peter Strzok, the former FBI agent who started the 2016 probe into Russian election interference, says President Donald Trump remains a “clear and present danger” to US national security after being compromised by personal and financial dealings with Russia. In a new book, “Compromised: Counterintelligence and the Threat of Donald J Trump,” Strzok says that senior FBI officials were ...

Bloomberg President Donald Trump said the US doesn’t know directly whether Alexey Navalny was poisoned, failing to accept the German government’s assessment that the Russian opposition leader was attacked with a nerve agent. German Chancellor Angela Merkel said that medical tests showed “unequivocally” that Navalny had been poisoned by a military-grade novichok nerve agent. Asked about the German conclusion at ...

Bloomberg Defense ministers from India and China agreed to defuse tensions after the latest clash on their Himalayan border revived a conflict that had been largely dormant since June. India’s Rajnath Singh and his Chinese counterpart Wei Fenghe held “frank and in-depth discussions” in Moscow about developments on the border and on bilateral relations, according to a statement from India’s ...

Bloomberg Sudan declared a three-month national state of emergency following floods that killed dozens of people and damaged or destroyed more than 100,000 homes, state-owned news agency Suna reported. The floods have affected over 500,000 people this year, killing 99 and injuring 46 others, Suna cited Labor and Social Development Minister Lena Al-Sheikh as saying. The rate of floods and ...

Bloomberg President Donald Trump said that Serbia and Kosovo had agreed to “economic normalisation,” in what he said was a step towards ending a two-decade old conflict. But the deal fell short of Belgrade recognising its neighbour as an independent nation. “My administration proposed a new way of bridging the divide by focussing on job creation and economic growth,” Trump ...

Bloomberg Italian PM Giuseppe Conte said that coronavirus outbreaks this autumn may prompt local restrictions but not a nationwide lockdown. “I am confident,” Conte said at an event organised by Il Fatto Quotidiano newspaper. “We won’t find ourselves in a situation to order a general lockdown; at worst we’ll have to intervene in a targeted way, with restrictive measures for narrowly ...