Politics

  Bloomberg India’s opposition parties said parliament has been repeatedly adjourned as Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government is “afraid” to discuss their demand for a probe into billionaire Gautam Adani’s fight with a US short seller. Parliament has been adjourned for three days and was briefly suspended on Tuesday as the opposition draws attention to what they describe as Adani ...

  Bloomberg New Zealand’s new Prime Minister Chris Hipkins said he won’t back away from criticizing China where necessary, as the new leader works to balance economic and diplomatic relations with his largest trading partner. Hipkins traveled to Australia on Tuesday to meet with Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese for the first time since coming to power. He was sworn ...

  Bloomberg A shakeup involving the replacement of Ukraine’s defense chief may be delayed as President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s government braces for a Russian offensive. A day after a senior lawmaker in Zelenskiy’s party announced that Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov will be replaced by Ukraine’s head of military intelligence, a parliamentary official said no decisions on staff changes will be made ...

Bloomberg China and Australia’s top trade officials have met for the first time since 2019, in the latest sign of warming diplomatic relations between the two countries. Commerce Minister Wang Wentao and Trade Minister Don Farrell held virtual talks on Monday for more than 90 minutes, according to an Australian government statement that confirms a report by Bloomberg News. Both ...

  Bloomberg A United Nations peacekeeper died and another was seriously wounded after their helicopter was shot at in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on Sunday, a day after East African Community leaders met to steady a flailing peace process. The helicopter was flying from Beni to the trading hub of Goma when it came under fire from unidentified assailants, ...

  Bloomberg Venezuela condemned what it called an “attack by the United States against an unmanned civilian aircraft of Chinese origin,” taking a clear side in the growing international dispute after a similar balloon was reported over Latin America. The US once again “resorts to the use of force” against a device that didn’t represent any military or physical threat ...

Bloomberg The US shot down an alleged Chinese surveillance balloon off the South Carolina coast on Saturday, injecting new tension into relations with Beijing which called the move an overreaction. President Joe Biden said he ordered the Pentagon on Wednesday to down the balloon as soon as possible “without doing damage to anyone on the ground.” The military decided the ...

  Bloomberg India’s main opposition party ramped up the pressure on Prime Minister Narendra Modi over his silence on the Adani turmoil and planned a nationwide protest on Monday to highlight the risk to small investors. “What action has been taken, if ever, to investigate the serious allegations made over the years against the Adani Group?” Jairam Ramesh, general secretary ...

  Bloomberg Pervez Musharraf, the former four-star Pakistani army general who governed the South Asian nation for nearly a decade after coming to power in a 1999 bloodless coup, has died. He was 79. He died after a long ailment in Dubai, said Raza Bokhari, a former spokesman and close aide. Musharraf, who was Pakistan’s fourth military leader, was a ...

  Bloomberg Ukraine’s government expects Russia’s new offensive to start this month, defense minister Oleksii Reznikov said at a press briefing in Kyiv. The one-year mark of Moscow’s invasion of its neighbor will be Feb. 24. Reznikov said the main directions of Russia’s attack are likely to be from the east and south. He discounted the possibility of an invasion ...