Politics

Bloomberg The former British spy who wrote the so-called Steele Dossier told a British court that US President Donald Trump may have posed a serious risk to UK national security. The information recorded in a pre-election memo into alleged Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election produced by his firm, Orbis Business Intelligence Ltd, “had important national security implications for ...

Bloomberg Tanzanian opposition leader Tundu Lissu is set to return home to take part in presidential elections, three years after surviving an assassination attempt. The 52-year-old human-rights lawyer plans to run against John Magufuli, who’s seeking a second term after five years in power that critics say has been marred by a crackdown on civil liberties and political dissent. The ...

Bloomberg President Rodrigo Duterte pushed for corporate tax cuts and targeted support for pandemic-hit industries as part of a recovery plan, and told lawmakers on Monday he’d asked Chinese President Xi Jinping to help the Philippines get priority access to a Covid-19 vaccine. In his annual congressional address, Duterte also attacked the elite, while asking banks and property companies to ...

Bloomberg Ukraine pushed for progress to end the conflict with Russian-backed separatists over its easternmost regions as the latest ceasefire took effect after dozens of unsuccessful attempts. President Volodymyr Zelenskiy won last year’s elections on a promise to end the war that has killed more than 13,000 people since it began with Russia’s 2014 annexation of Crimea and support for ...

Bloomberg A man was killed during a protest in Texas as demonstrations against racial and social injustice continued across the US. The victim was fatally wounded at around 10 pm in Austin, police said. Initial reports indicated the man may have been carrying a rifle when he approached a vehicle, whose driver fired several shots, according to police, The suspect ...

Bloomberg President Donald Trump has reset his approach to the coronavirus pandemic in a bid to revive sinking poll numbers, but with 100 days until the election his campaign may need more than a change in tone to reverse its slide. Trump trails Democrat Joe Biden nationally and in key swing states by wide margins, grappling with a health crisis ...

Bloomberg North Korean leader Kim Jong-un ordered a city near the border with South Korea locked down after officials found a person who may be infected with the coronavirus, state media reported. Kim attended an emergency meeting of the Workers’ Party and took the “preemptive measure” of isolating Kaesong City following the report on the suspected case, the Korean Central ...

Bloomberg Vietnam reported two locally-transmitted coronavirus cases after more than three months of no new infections of such, prompting authorities in the city of Danang to restrict activities to prevent a wider spread of the disease. One patient, a 57-year-old man, had been in Danang city for about a month and hadn’t traveled to other provinces, the government said in ...

Bloomberg Hanna, 2020’s first Atlantic hurricane, made landfall on Padre Island Saturday evening, bringing “life-threatening” storm surges, flooding rains and tree-toppling winds to south Texas. The storm came ashore with 90-mile-per-hour (145 kmph) winds, the National Hurricane Center said in an advisory at 6 pm EDT. Hanna is moving west-south-west at about 8 miles per hour. A Category 1 storm, ...

Bloomberg China, Russia and Iran are looking to disrupt the US electoral process before November’s vote, including attempts at compromising the private communications of political campaigns and candidates, a top US intelligence official warned. William Evanina, director of the National Counterintelligence and Security Center, said that federal officials continue to monitor hackers trying to gain access to state and federal ...