Politics

Bloomberg Poland is voting in a high-stakes presidential election as the coronavirus pandemic tests the populists’ grip on power and threatens one of the biggest nationalist makeovers in the heart of Europe. In what may be the closest ballot in Poland’s post-communist history, incumbent Andrzej Duda is battling Warsaw Mayor Rafal Trzaskowski for the presidency in a runoff ballot on ...

Bloomberg Senators Mitt Romney and Pat Toomey became the first major Republican elected officials to criticise President Donald Trump‘s decision to commute the prison sentence of Roger Stone. “Unprecedented, historic corruption: an American president commutes the sentence of a person convicted by a jury of lying to shield that very president,” Utah senator Romney said. The tweet trended on the ...

Bloomberg The number of coronavirus cases in Indonesia exceeded 75,000 as infections in the two largest hotspots continued to accelerate after the government eased physical-distancing curbs more than a month ago. There were 1,681 new cases in the 24 hours to midday on Sunday, bringing the total to 75,699, authorities said, adding that 71 people succumbed to the virus. The ...

Bloomberg President Donald Trump said he would seek sweeping changes to US immigration policy through an executive order, suggesting he might create a “road to citizenship” for certain migrants brought to the country illegally as children and shift the criteria for new arrivals to a “merit-based” system. The new effort will be unveiled “over the next four weeks,” Trump said ...

Bloomberg President Donald Trump has commuted the sentence of Roger Stone, sentenced to more than three years in prison for witness tampering and lying to Congress, in a move that will keep his former campaign adviser from serving time behind bars. The decision, announced in a White House press release, came after Trump had repeatedly criticised the judge, prosecutors, and ...

Bloomberg Voting started in Hong Kong for the primaries of pro-democracy opposition parties, after police raided a polling body working with the movement the night before. Almost 60,000 people voted in the first three hours, according to organisers of the unofficial primary. They are hoping to get at least 170,000 to take part in the vote and on Sunday and ...

Bloomberg Serbian police detained more than 70 protesters who tried to storm the parliament building in the capital Belgrade as anti-government demonstrations triggered earlier this week over a planned virus curfew lapsed into violence again. Riot police used tear gas to repel the charge by a radical group following hours of a peaceful, sit-down rally by supporters of opposition parties. ...

Bloomberg UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said people should wear face coverings in shops and go back to work if they can, as he urged the country to try to resume normal life after lockdown. Medical advice is moving in favor of wearing face coverings in all confined spaces, including on public transport and in stores, and the government was ...

Bloomberg Australia is suspending its extradition agreement with Hong Kong and will give skilled migrants from the city five-year visas with a pathway to permanent residence, after China imposed sweeping national security legislation on the financial hub. “Our decision to suspend the extradition agreement with Hong Kong represents an acknowledgment of the fundamental change of circumstances in relation to Hong ...

Bloomberg Croatia and Bulgaria are set for approval to join the waiting room to adopt the euro in what would be the first step toward expanding the currency union since 2015. The decision to allow the two eastern European countries into what’s known as ERM-2 is likely to be taken by euro-region finance ministers meeting on Thursday and on Friday, ...