Politics

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 ...

Bloomberg China refused to rule out blocking Hong Kong citizens from leaving to take up Boris Johnson’s offer of a new home in the UK, criticising the British government for “gross interference” in Beijing’s affairs. “We have to wait and see,” Liu Xiaoming, China’s ambassador in London, told reporters on a video conference call. “We have to decide our counter-measures ...

Bloomberg Beijing police arrested an outspoken critic of Chinese President Xi Jinping morning as his administration took steps to crack down on potential threats to the Communist Party stemming from the economic fallout of the pandemic. Xu Zhangrun, a law professor at Tsinghua University, was taken away by police from his house at a Beijing suburb, according to his friend, ...

Bloomberg President Donald Trump has cycled through a string of attacks against Joe Biden but as he and allies seek to tie the Democratic nominee to the “radical left,” Biden’s campaign warned on Monday that the new message will fall short. Trump used two weekend speeches to vow to defeat Democrats and the “radical left,” linking the party to protesters ...

Bloomberg Voters in the Dominican Republic ousted the party that has dominated the country for two decades as Latin America continues to vote out incumbents. Opposition leader Luis Abinader will be sworn in as president of the Caribbean’s largest economy next month after winning in the first round and avoiding a runoff. With 83% of polling stations reporting, Abinader of ...

Bloomberg European Union officials were expected to talk with Gilead Sciences Inc executives on Monday to hammer out a deal to secure its antiviral drug remdesivir to combat the coronavirus, according to a person familiar with the matter. Health Commissioner Stella Kyriakides was expected to speak with Gilead about purchasing the drug on behalf of 16 EU members, including Germany, ...

Bloomberg President Donald Trump marked Independence Day by promising to defeat the “radical left” and boasting of his handling of the coronavirus, even as cases spike in the US. Trump, speaking from the South Lawn of the White House, reprised themes from a speech he delivered in South Dakota the day before, by lashing out at those protesting statues of ...

Bloomberg Heavy rains in southern Japan left 18 people dead, while 14 were missing, as flooding and mudslides trapped some residents, a Kumamoto prefectural government official said on Sunday. The torrent caused the Kuma River to break its banks at multiple locations early on July 04, leading to severe flood damage, Kyodo newswire reported. Evacuations were ordered in some areas. ...

Bloomberg Virus samples sent to the Wuhan Institute of Virology seven years ago closely resemble Covid-19, according to a report in the Sunday Times that highlights unanswered questions about the origins of the global pandemic. Scientists in 2013 sent frozen samples to the Wuhan lab from a bat-infested former copper mine in southwest China after six men who had been ...