Politics

Bloomberg Joe Biden has formally clinched the Democratic presidential nomination, according to the Associated Press tally, officially setting off his general election campaign to unseat President Donald Trump. The former vice president passed the milestone after collecting 1,993 delegates to the national convention, two more than the 1,991 needed to become the nominee. Mail-in ballots from Indiana, Pennsylvania and Rhode ...

Bloomberg India will insist that China demolish recent construction and withdraw soldiers from a disputed border area as the two neighbours begin talks to end a stalemate that began in April, officials with knowledge of the matter said. The South Asian nation, at a meeting of senior defense officials on Saturday, will offer to remove construction done at the border ...

Bloomberg Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro is seeking to use the Supreme Court to accelerate the appointment of electoral officials mainly loyal to his government, laying the groundwork for congressional elections in December, according to seven people familiar with matter. Maduro’s administration is preparing to appoint an all-new board to the electoral body known as CNE through a Supreme Court ruling as ...

Bloomberg Spaniards are getting really worked up about Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez. At one point last month, the defaced image of the photogenic Socialist was plastered across a giant red banner hung in downtown Madrid. The trigger has been his widely-criticised handling of the coronavirus pandemic that has seen Spain suffer among the highest death tolls in Europe. But as ...

Bloomberg Ex-defense secretary Jim Mattis condemned his former boss, President Donald Trump, over his aggressive rhetoric and strategy to quell protests that erupted after the death of an unarmed black man in police custody. “Donald Trump is the first president in my lifetime who does not try to unite the American people — does not even pretend to try. Instead, ...

Bloomberg Tropical Storm Cristobal brought heavy rain to southern Mexico, and with a forecast that has it re-entering the Gulf of Mexico on Friday, oil-platform workers are already being evacuated. The storm, carrying winds as high as 40 miles (64 kilometres) per hour, will dump more “extreme rainfall” on far southern Mexico, extending to Guatemala and El Salvador, according to ...

Bloomberg The US security presence “remains vital to the Asia-Pacific region,” and China would be unable to take over that role in Southeast Asia even with its increasing military might, Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said. In an article published by Foreign Affairs on Thursday, Lee wrote that China’s competing maritime and territorial claims in the South China Sea ...

Bloomberg Japan will allow some resident foreigners to re-enter the country on humanitarian grounds after facing criticism its policies made their return uncertain and left the group in a Covid-19 travel limbo. A notice on the foreign ministry website says permission to land may be granted “depending on the individual situation if there are special exceptional circumstances, particularly such as ...

Bloomberg Philippine lawmakers have approved a bill allowing warrantless detention and wiretapping of suspected terrorists, which the country’s human rights commission says could curb expressions of dissent and other freedoms. The House of Representatives gave its final approval on the anti-terrorism bill, adopting the Senate’s version of the measure that’s been certified by President Rodrigo Duterte as urgent. Bills on ...

Bloomberg Donald Trump faced a dwindling set of options to address nationwide unrest, after a backlash erupted over the government’s violent dispersal of peaceful protests outside the White House, plunging the president into more election-year turmoil. For Trump and his conservative backers, his photo op in front of historic St John’s Episcopal Church with Bible in hand was a show ...