Politics

Bloomberg Indian and Chinese troops have begun pulling back from large tracts of land along their remote Himalayan boundary, a move aimed at defusing a nine-week standoff between the two nuclear-armed neighbours that resulted in the loss of lives on both sides. Armies are falling back at several places in Ladakh including Pangong Tso — a glacial lake at 14000 ...

Bloomberg Thousands of protesters clashed with police in Serbia’s capital after the president said he’d reinstate one of Europe’s strictest lockdown regimes to confront a spike in new cases of Covid-19 in the city. Riot police used tear gas to repel rock-throwing, mostly right-wing demonstrators who briefly broke into the parliament building in central Belgrade in the biggest outbreak of ...

Bloomberg France’s new government would seek to preserve the economy should a second wave of the coronavirus pandemic force it to bring back lockdown measures, Prime Minister Jean Castex said on Wednesday. “We won’t survive, economically and socially, an absolute and generalized lockdown,” Castex told BFM TV and RMC radio, adding that he advocated more targeted restrictions. With the World ...

Bloomberg Hundreds of thousands of Chinese students enroll at US colleges and universities each year, and right now, a lot of them are concerned. As schools try to figure out how to start the fall semester amid the coronavirus pandemic, some — including Harvard University and the University of Southern California — are opting for online-only instruction. And that means ...

Bloomberg Nigeria’s presidency summoned the head of the nation’s anti-corruption body to discuss the sale of seized assets. Ibrahim Magu, the acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) attended the meeting after receiving an invitation from a presidential panel while en route to another engagement, the anti-corruption agency said in an emailed statement. It denied a report ...

Bloomberg The US government was ordered by a federal appeals court to respond to Republican operative Roger Stone’s request to delay the start of his 40-month prison term as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. The US Court of Appeals in Washington on Tuesday ordered the government to file its response by July 9. Stone had appealed after a trial ...

Bloomberg The UK has stepped up its criticism of Beijing and Moscow as it seeks to establish a place for itself in the world after Brexit. China’s ambassador to London warned of “consequences” if Britain treats his country as a “hostile” power in its dealings over Hong Kong and Huawei Technologies Co, while Russian officials topped the list of people ...

Bloomberg Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro tested positive for Covid-19 in an escalation of the health crisis that has engulfed Latin America’s largest economy. “I’m perfectly well,” Bolsonaro told CNN Brasil in a live interview, after announcing the result of his test. He added he is taking hydroxichloroquine, an anti-malaria medicine he’s been touting as being effective against the virus though ...

Bloomberg Russian investigators have detained an adviser to the head of the country’s space agency on charges of treason, Roscosmos said on Tuesday. The Federal Security Service said Ivan Safronov was suspected of passing information on arms sales and other defense and security matters to a North American Treaty Organization (NATO) country that it didn’t name, the state-run RIA Novosti ...

Bloomberg Indian and Chinese officials say soldiers from both sides have begun falling back along their contested Himalayan border that last month saw the worst flare up of violence in four decades. The People’s Liberation Army was seen removing tents and structures in the border area, following the last meeting between the senior commanders of both nations, an Indian government ...