Politics

Bloomberg Senegal’s government confirmed the country’s first coronavirus case, the second in sub-Saharan Africa. The patient is a French national who arrived in Dakar, the capital, on February 26, Health Minister Abdoulaye Diouf Sarr told reporters at a briefing broadcast on Facebook. The man sought help two days later after suffering from fever, headache and a sore throat, and is ...

Bloomberg The Trump administration ordered four Chinese state-owned news outlets to slash the number of staff they have working in the US, part of a broader response to Beijing’s restrictions on American journalists including its expulsion of three Wall Street Journal reporters last month. The move risks further tit-for-tat measures from Beijing as the world’s biggest economies continue a broader ...

Bloomberg Former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton must submit to a deposition by Judicial Watch, a conservative group that sued over her use of a private email server, a federal judge ruled. Though Clinton has submitted extensive evidence about her use of the server while in office, US District Judge Royce Lamberth said in Washington that questions remain about ...

Bloomberg Michael Bloomberg said that he agrees with President Donald Trump pressuring China on trade and talking to North Korea and that “a lot of criticisms of Donald Trump are not his policies, it’s the way he’s doing it.” Bloomberg said he agreed with Trump cracking down on China’s theft of intellectual property and other unfair trade practices, but he ...

Bloomberg North Korea launched two unidentified projectiles off its eastern coast, South Korea’s defense ministry said, a move that comes just after the year anniversary of the failed Hanoi summit between leader Kim Jong-un and US President Donald Trump. The projectiles were launched on Monday from an area near the North Korean coastal city of Wonsan, the South Korean defense ...

Bloomberg Iraq’s Mohammed Tawfik Allawi declined to form a cabinet and stepped down as designated prime minister, ending weeks of squabbling and returning the country to a political vacuum. In a televised address on Monday in Baghdad, Allawi said he was quitting because of what he called “pressures from political parties seeking their own interests.” Allawi, a former communications minister, ...

Bloomberg President Donald Trump’s appointment of Virginia’s former attorney general as head of the immigration service violated federal law, a federal judge concluded. The ruling voids controversial policy changes that made it more difficult to get asylum in the US. Ken Cuccinelli’s appointment in 2019 as acting director of US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), a unit within the Department ...

Bloomberg The Democratic Republic of Congo’s president called for a rapid investigation into the sudden death of the country’s head of military intelligence shortly after his suspension from the army. General Delphin Kahimbi died last week in Kinshasa, the capital, President Felix Tshisekedi told his council of ministers later that day, according to minutes of the meeting on the PM ...

Bloomberg Joe Biden is looking to use a blowout win in South Carolina to paint the Democratic primary contest as a clear choice between his traditional centrism and Bernie Sanders’s democratic socialism. In multiple television interviews on Sunday, the former vice president touted his success with South Carolina’s diverse electorate and portrayed Sanders as a risky choice who’d lose key ...

Bloomberg Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says he doesn’t know when or where President Donald Trump’s meeting with the Taliban would take place. “They have an enormous amount of American blood on their hands,” Pompeo said on CBS’s “Face the Nation” on Sunday. “We’re going to see if the Taliban are prepared to live up to the commitments they made.” ...