Politics

Bloomberg A Hong Kong police officer drew a weapon after coming under attack at a rally in Hong Kong city center. The clash occurred during a gathering of hundreds of people at Edinburgh Place in support of China’s Uighur minority. Police stormed the rally after a Chinese flag was ripped off a pole near City Hall. Police said in a ...

Bloomberg Libyan military commander Khalifa Haftar’s forces said they seized a ship with a Turkish crew, hours after Turkey’s parliament approved a defense pact in support of his rival in the North African country’s civil war. The Grenada-flagged vessel has been led to Ras Al Hilal port where it will have its cargo checked, according to a statement posted on ...

Bloomberg Prime Minister Narendra Modi has staunchly defended India’s contentious new religion-based citizenship law in an address to a mass rally in the capital New Delhi, while elsewhere in the country the death toll from violent protests against the legislation crept higher. He asked voters to thank the parliament for pushing through the law last week and accused opposition parties ...

Bloomberg India’s federal government has warned television stations not to broadcast images of protests against a new religion-based citizenship law, as it intensifies attempts to quell growing anger over what demonstrators say is an attack on the country’s secular constitution. At least 18 people have been killed over the last week as police cracked down on demonstrators and more than ...

Bloomberg President Donald Trump pilloried an editorial in Christianity Today that called for his removal from office, underscoring the importance of religious voters to his 2020 re-election prospects. In a series of tweets, Trump called the publication — which was founded by the late Reverend Billy Graham — “a far left magazine” and said that “no president has done more ...

Bloomberg Chinese authorities responded negatively to the idea of launching a commission to examine police conduct during six months of social unrest, South China Morning Post reported on Saturday. Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam sought feedback during her four-day trip to Beijing last week, the Hong Kong-based English-language newspaper said, citing an unidentified person close to the government. Protesters ...

Bloomberg The US military is maintaining its customary “high levels of readiness” on the Korean peninsula as a deterrent to any threats from Kim Jong Un’s regime, General Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said. The Korean peninsula is “one of those places in the world we always maintain very high levels of readiness,” Milley told reporters ...

Bloomberg Greece agreed to hand over a Russian citizen accused of cryptocurrency-related charges in several countries, a move that could bring him closer to facing trial in France or the US. The Russian, Alexander Vinnik, will be extradited to France, the Russian embassy in Athens said in social media postings that sharply accused Athens of ignoring Moscow’s request for Vinnik’s ...

Bloomberg President Donald Trump says his impeachment trial should deliver on a goal he’s nurtured for months: unmasking the whistle-blower who started it all. But that would pose legal and ethical challenges that would be hard to overcome. Federal laws promise anonymity for workers who step forward with alleged wrongdoing. In this case, a government employee — reportedly a CIA ...

Bloomberg India’s controversial religion-based citizenship act will have to pass the scrutiny of the nation’s top court, even as Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government pledged to push ahead and implement the law. A three-judge bench headed by Chief Justice of India S.A. Bobde issued a notice to the government seeking its response. The court agreed to examine the legality of ...