Politics

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 ...

Bloomberg President Donald Trump said the US will terminate its relationship with the World Health Organization (WHO), which he has accused of being too deferential to China and of failing to provide accurate information about the spread of the coronavirus. “We have detailed reforms that they must make and engage with them directly, but they have refused to act,” Trump ...

Bloomberg Joe Biden denounced the unjust treatment of African Americans and called on Americans to take an active role in combating racism, as he assailed President Donald Trump’s leadership after a black man was killed in police custody in Minnesota. Biden, the presumptive Democratic nominee, delivered brief remarks in a speech streamed live on his website, as he sought to ...

Bloomberg Newly declassified transcripts confirm that Michael Flynn, who became President Donald Trump’s first national security adviser, discussed US sanctions with Russia’s Ambassador Sergey Kislyak before Trump’s inauguration. The transcripts from late 2016 and early 2017 that were released by Republican senators show Flynn urged Kislyak to keep the temperature down between the two countries and to limit Russia’s response ...

Bloomberg Italy’s health minister confirmed the country can go ahead with the plan to start allowing travel across the nation next week, even as some local governors oppose letting people from the hard-hit Lombardy region move freely. Data on the spread of the virus is improving and allows for the reopening among regions, Health Minister Roberto Speranza told newswire Ansa. ...

Bloomberg President Donald Trump’s long-touted response to China for its crackdown on Hong Kong included a barrage of criticism but stopped short of fully escalating tensions between the two nations. While the US president’s speech was heated in rhetoric, it lacked specifics around measures that would directly impact Beijing. He announced the US would begin the process of stripping some ...

Bloomberg Chinese lawmakers approved a proposal for sweeping new national security legislation in Hong Kong, defying a threat by US President Donald Trump to respond strongly to a measure that democracy advocates say will curb essential freedoms in the city. The National People’s Congress (NPC), China’s rubber-stamp legislature, approved the draft decision by a vote of 2,878-1 at its annual ...

Bloomberg China’s Premier Li Keqiang struck a conciliatory tone with the US, saying that the two sides should cooperate and respect each other’s interests as tensions escalate on many fronts. As he spoke, the New York Times reported that President Donald Trump’s administration plans to cancel the visas of thousands of graduate students and researchers in the US with direct ...

Bloomberg Boris Johnson appealed to the UK to “move on” from the controversy over claims that his top adviser broke lockdown rules, as the prime minister tried to fight off a growing revolt from within his own party. Johnson said he was “sorry” for the “pain” and “anguish” the public had suffered since March, when he ordered sweeping restrictions on ...