Politics

Bloomberg The Department of Justice announced charges on Monday against four members of China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) for the 2017 hack of Equifax Inc, according to US Attorney General William Barr. Barr said the charges stem from “breaking into the computer systems” of the credit-reporting company and stealing intellectual property and sensitive personal information at a unprecedented scale. At ...

Bloomberg Attorney General William Barr acknowledged for the first time on Monday that President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, has been giving the Justice Department (DOJ) information he collected in Ukraine, bringing what was a stealth campaign into official government channels. Barr said, however, that information coming from Ukraine must be carefully vetted to ensure it is accurate and ...

Bloomberg President Rodrigo Duterte plans to order the termination of a longstanding military pact with the US, the Philippine Daily Inquirer reported, though the US State Department reiterated that relations between the nations remain strong. The Inquirer report, citing presidential spokesman Salvador Panelo, follows Duterte’s threat in January to end the agreement after Washington cancelled a visa for a senator ...

Bloomberg The new coronavirus may have infected at least 1 in 20 people in Wuhan, the Chinese city at the epicenter of the global outbreak, by the time it peaks in coming weeks, according to scientists modeling its spread. The typically bustling megacity, where the so-called 2010-nCoV virus emerged late last year, has been in lockdown since January 23, restricting ...

Bloomberg Irish PM Leo Varadkar’s party defied pre-election surveys to stay in contention to keep power, as an exit poll showed the nation’s three biggest political parties in a dead heat, with Sinn Fein on track for a historic breakthrough. Varadkar’s Fine Gael won 22.4% of votes in the election, according to the poll, state broadcaster RTE said, confounding surveys that ...

Bloomberg Matteo Salvini insisted that he defended Italy by refusing to let stranded migrants enter the country when he was interior minister, as parliament prepares to vote this week on whether he should be prosecuted. “It’s crazy, I don’t know how much it costs in terms of men and money to show I’m a criminal, but I’m not afraid and ...

Bloomberg House Democrats said the Trump administration’s ban on New York State residents participating in US travel pre-screening programmes is a “senseless, retaliatory decision” that must be reversed. “Your justification for this sudden policy shift appears to be no more than a pretext,” the Democrats, including Homeland Security Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson of Mississippi, wrote in a letter to acting ...

Bloomberg Delhi voted in the bitterly contested state election on Saturday, with PM Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in a tough fight to reclaim the capital region, marking the first major test at the ballot box of his religion-based citizenship law that’s spurred nationwide protests. About 14.6 million voters cast their votes to elect 70 members to the legislative ...

Bloomberg An attacker using military-style weapons killed at least 10 people in Thailand and appeared to livestream the assault on Facebook. Many others were injured in the incident on Saturday and the assailant remains at large, according to police spokesman Kritsana Pattanacharoen. The shooting took place in a city commonly known as Korat in Nakhon Ratchasima province northeast of Bangkok. ...

Bloomberg Malaysian PM Mahathir Mohamad said the proposed Israel-Palestine peace deal that was announced by US President Donald Trump is “utterly unacceptable“ and “grossly unjust.” The plan, dubbed the “Deal of the Century” by Trump, hands the holy city of Jerusalem on a silver platter to Israel in absolute disregard for the feelings of millions of Muslims and Christians worldwide, ...