Politics

Bloomberg Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam didn’t make any new concessions to protesters after pro-democracy forces won a landslide in local elections, a move that risks leading to further violence after months of unrest. The comments on Tuesday came during her first weekly briefing since an overwhelming majority of voters delivered a strong rebuke of her administration and its backers ...

Bloomberg French president Emmanuel Macron said 13 soldiers died in a helicopter accident on November 25 during an anti-terrorism operation in Mali. The accident occurred during a military operation against extremists, the French Presidency said in a statement. The accident raises the death toll in France’s anti-terrorism military operation in the Sahel region to more than 30. France started military ...

Bloomberg Botswana’s main opposition party and the breakaway party of former president Ian Khama are challenging the results of voting in 19 constituencies, a move that could result in the country’s electoral commission calling fresh elections in those districts. The Umbrella for Democratic Change has filed petitions with the High Court in 16 districts, while Khama’s Botswana Patriotic Front is ...

Bloomberg A four-day-old coalition government led by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) collapsed in the western Indian state of Maharashtra after it failed to muster a majority. Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis announced his intention to resign at a press conference in Mumbai, the state’s capital, which is also home to India’s benchmark stock exchange and leading conglomerates, Reliance Industries Ltd ...

Bloomberg It’s starting to feel like dominoes. One by one, countries across Latin America are succumbing to unrest. It doesn’t matter if governments are from the left or right. People are tired of austerity, with some countries suffering years of stagnant economic growth and fed up with graft. The latest to face mass protests is Colombia. Perhaps having seen what ...

Bloomberg Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy faced months of US pressure to drum up a very particular corruption investigation. Zelenskiy repeatedly responded vaguely, to the clear frustration of President Donald Trump’s circle, that he is committed to investigating corruption. Zelenskiy’s efforts to retool his country’s law enforcement are now taking form, with Ukrainians watching whether the latest anti-corruption drive will fare ...

Bloomberg House Democrats are starting to compress weeks of depositions, documents and testimony into a report almost certain to result in articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump, as the White House wages a campaign to discredit the investigation. Intelligence chairman Adam Schiff won’t rule out more witnesses or other avenues of investigation beyond a central focus: whether Trump tried ...

Bloomberg Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe urged China to preserve a free Hong Kong and backed Beijing’s “one country, two systems” principle of governing it in a meeting with Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi, just as pro-democracy candidates triumphed in an election in the city. Abe also “strongly pushed” for China to deal positively with disputes over the East China ...

Bloomberg UK prime minister Boris Johnson is aiming to consolidate his lead in the polls in the final weeks of the general election campaign. He announced a safety-first policy package based on “sensible” promises, which included hiring 50,000 nurses for the country’s cherished National Health Service and cutting taxes for working people. Johnson carefully avoided the radical language and out-of-the-blue ...

Bloomberg Depriving western Balkan countries of a clear chance to join the European Union risks speeding up the already alarming pace of people emigrating away from the region, North Macedonia’s president said. Stevo Pendarovski said that France’s decision to block the opening of accession talks with his country and Albania — and president Emmanuel Macron’s insistence that there should be ...