Politics

Bloomberg President Donald Trump was recorded during a private meeting in April 2018 saying that the US should “get rid of” then-US ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch, according to a video provided by an attorney for Lev Parnas, an associate of the president’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani. The iPhone video, which is more than an hour long, shows Trump walking ...

Bloomberg California became the third US state to confirm an infection from the novel coronavirus as China said the pneumonia-like illness is spreading more quickly. The person, who travelled from the Chinese city of Wuhan, is in isolation in a local hospital and in good condition, according to a statement from the Orange County Health Care Agency’s Communicable Disease Control ...

Bloomberg Through some of the coldest nights in a century, the students of New Delhi gathered outside the city’s police headquarters. They chanted anti-government slogans, recited Pakistani resistance poets, and flashed witty posters to make a stand against a new citizenship law that excludes Muslims. As the confrontations continue across the country, though, they’ve morphed into a wider protest against ...

Bloomberg Cultivating an image of just another average guy has served Matteo Salvini well, turning the leader of what used to be a fringe nationalist party into Italy’s most prominent politician, the chief opponent of immigrants and Brussels interference. Mobbed wherever he goes, few dispute he will one day become the country’s PM. That, though, is for public consumption and ...

Bloomberg Hong Kong police fired tear gas to disperse a crowd of protesters who gathered in the crowded shopping hub of Mong Kok at the site of a 2016 protest that marked a violent turn by the city’s pro-democracy movement. Police said in a statement a large crowd had formed and “some rioters blocked roads with miscellaneous objects and trash,” ...

Bloomberg North Korean leader Kim Jong-un’s aunt, Kim Kyong Hui, appeared in state media on Sunday, the first time she has been seen in public since her husband Jang Song Thaek was executed in 2013. The 73-year-old sat two seats away from her nephew, according to a photo by Korean Central News Agency. The leader’s sister, Kim Yo Jong, and ...

Bloomberg The House impeachment managers wrapped up their case against President Donald Trump by warning senators that they will cause sustained damage to the Constitution and the nation’s system of government if they don’t hold him accountable. “That will be an unending injury to this country,” Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff said in his summation. “The balance of power that our ...

Bloomberg A magnitude 6.8 earthquake in Turkey’s eastern Elazig province killed at least 21 people and injured hundreds. About 30 people remain under the rubble of collapsed buildings, the NTV news channel said. Four buildings were wrecked in the Elazig city centre, the Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency (AFAD) said. Twelve of the hundreds of aftershocks had a magnitude of ...

Bloomberg The US urged India to release political leaders detained without charge in its portion of Kashmir and to grant American diplomats regular access to the restive region. “I was pleased to see some incremental steps, including the partial return of internet service in Kashmir,” Alice Wells, the US State Department’s Acting Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs, ...

Bloomberg Four months after the shock dissolution of Peru’s Congress, President Martin Vizcarra’s gamble looks set to pay off once new lawmakers are elected on Sunday. Polls suggest the parliament will emerge more fractured but influenced by a set of centrist parties more open to the president’s path of political and judicial reform. At the same time, the opposition movement ...