Politics

Bloomberg Wuhan authorities said they found no new cases of “silent spreaders” for the first time in nearly two months as the city’s aggressive push to test its entire population appears to have succeeded in breaking hidden chains of transmission. Of the 60,000 people tested on May 31, no cases of asymptomatic infections were found, said the Wuhan municipal health ...

Bloomberg Prime minister Justin Trudeau is ready to announce financial support for Canadian municipalities whose revenues have plunged amid the Covid-19 lockdowns. Trudeau was expected to announce C$2.2 billion ($1.6 billion) in funding on Monday, according to a government official familiar with the plans. The money — potentially only a first move to help cities — will come in the ...

Bloomberg President Donald Trump has seized on destructive nationwide protests against police brutality to portray himself as an icon of law and order, eschewing the soothing role past presidents have adopted in similar moments as he seeks to turn the election-year conversation from his widely panned handling of the coronavirus outbreak. The president blamed the protests on Antifa, a loosely ...

Bloomberg US government is selling its Hong Kong consulate staff quarters, estimated to be worth more than $400 million, amid rising tension over the city’s future. The compound is located in Shouson Hill, on the southern side of Hong Kong Island, where some of the city’s richest tycoons, including Li Ka-Shing, own houses. Comprising several apartment buildings spread over almost ...

Bloomberg Phyllis Lam has lived in Hong Kong for 42 years. It’s where she was born, went to school, met her husband and planned to raise her two children. But like a growing number of Hongkongers disillusioned by China’s tightening grip on the city, Lam now feels she has little choice but to leave. “I have no confidence in Hong ...

Bloomberg Nine passengers died and eight were wounded when a bomb hit a mini-bus on the outskirts of Somali capital Mogadishu this morning, police said. The victims were travelling from the town of Afgoye to Mogadishu when a roadside bomb exploded, Yahye Ahmed, a police officer, said by phone. No one has claimed responsibility for the blast, though the police ...

Bloomberg President Donald Trump vowed his administration would end what he called “mob violence” in US cities following the death of an unarmed black man at the hands of Minnesota police, blaming leftist groups for clashes with police and property damage around the nation. “The mobs are devastating the life’s work of good people and destroying their dreams,” Trump said ...

Bloomberg India announced a phased lifting of the nationwide lockdown by allowing malls, restaurants and places of worship to open from June 8, as the country attempts to revive an economy ravaged by the world’s toughest stay-at-home restrictions. The country, which had enforced sweeping and strict orders March 25, will limit the stringent rules to areas that have a large ...

Bloomberg The UK government came under pressure from its own scientists to show caution in easing the pace at which it’s lifting the lockdown, as the behaviour of the prime minister’s adviser Dominic Cummings faced fresh criticism from senior scientists and academics. Foreign secretary Dominic Raab defended the decision to allow some loosening of restrictions after a group of more ...

Bloomberg President Donald Trump said he’s planning an expanded Group of Seven leaders meeting in the autumn, potentially even after the November election, postponing efforts to hold the event in June at Camp David. Trump, speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One, said he’d like to extend an invitation to leaders from Russia, Australia, India and South Korea as well ...