Politics

Bloomberg At least 200 people were arrested and more than 70 injured in Hong Kong as protesters seeking greater democracy and police accountability blocked roads and vandalised public facilities. Police and protesters clashed at malls full of afternoon shoppers, where riot police used pepper spray and detained several people. Shopfronts were vandalised and subway turnstiles were damaged, police said. Some ...

Bloomberg President Donald Trump continues a campaign swing through the South this week, where he’ll try to fire up his core supporters by taking on Democrats’ impeachment effort. Trump was expected to plan rallies in Kentucky on Monday and Louisiana on Wednesday — states he won in 2016 by wide margins — and he’ll also seek to boost Republican gubernatorial ...

Bloomberg At least 200 people were arrested in Hong Kong as protesters blocked roads, vandalised public facilities and set alight exits of subway stations. Police fired multiple rounds of tear gas and deployed a water cannon on black-clad demonstrators who built barricades across busy streets, including a highway, and threw flaming objects in Wan Chai on Hong Kong Island. MTR ...

Bloomberg The US and South Korea will suspend a planned air-power military drill for the second straight year to avoid increasing tensions with North Korea while denuclearisation talks between Washington and Pyongyang are stalled, Yonhap News reported, citing an unidentified official. Vigilant Ace, the joint exercise scheduled for December, involves hundreds of aircraft including US strategic bombers, the news agency ...

Bloomberg Members of opposition parties in Pakistan are staging a sit-in protest in capital Islamabad, demanding the ouster of Prime Minister Imran Khan over his handling of the economy. Opposition cleric Fazl-ur-Rehman of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl is leading the protests, which are supported by Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz’s Shahbaz Sharif and Pakistan People’s Party chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari. Khan has refused to ...

Bloomberg British PM Boris Johnson will push his Brexit deal through parliament “very fast” and avoid any further dithering if his Conservative Party wins the general election on December 12, he told the Sunday Express newspaper in an interview. The UK will have the chance not just to do a free trade deal with the European Union, but it can ...

Bloomberg As the Pentagon hunts for sites to deploy missiles against a rising China, Okinawa’s governor is warning the US to steer clear of the southern Japanese prefecture. Governor Denny Tamaki said in an interview that any US attempt to base intermediate-range ballistic missiles in Okinawa would be firmly opposed by the local people. Tamaki, who was elected last year ...

Bloomberg House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, offering her most expansive view of the impeachment probe to date, said she decided to advance the inquiry into President Donald Trump after his phone call with Ukraine’s leader provided her with the “clarity” that prior allegations against Trump lacked. Pelosi said the partial transcript of Trump’s July 25 conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy ...

Bloomberg President Donald Trump renewed his attacks on Democrats’ impeachment efforts at his first campaign rally since the House voted to kick off the public phase of the accelerating inquiry. “The Democrat party has gone completely insane,” Trump told a cheering audience at a rally in Tupelo, Mississippi. He said the party is trying to overturn the 2016 election results ...

Bloomberg A wildfire that erupted near Los Angeles has forced up to 8,000 people to flee as the tail end of a powerful windstorm takes its final swing at southern California. The blaze in Ventura County has ripped through almost 9,000 acres and threatens 2,300 structures, according to local authorities. Edison International has cut power to 625 nearby homes and ...