Politics

Bloomberg The UK will hold an emergency election in six weeks’ time, in a critical poll that could finally settle the question of Brexit. Prime Minister Boris Johnson won backing in parliament to trigger the snap vote in an attempt to break the deadlock that has paralysed the country’s politics, weighed on its economy and left its citizens angry and ...

Bloomberg Dozens of Chileans have been partially blinded by rubber projectiles and gas canisters that police and soldiers fired into crowds of protesters — maimings that threaten to destroy what little common ground is left in a nation racked by the worst civil unrest in a generation. More than 140 people have suffered eye injuries since protests started on October ...

Bloomberg Hong Kong martial arts guru Bruce Lee urged followers to “empty your mind, be formless, shapeless like water.” That philosophy has driven months of anti-government unrest in Hong Kong. And it applies to protest movements elsewhere that are operating with quick-changing tactics and without clear leadership. Mass demonstrations are not new. Anti-war and anti-nuclear protests swept the globe decades ...

Bloomberg Alberto Fernandez has yet to take office in Argentina. But already diplomats in Buenos Aires are anxiously awaiting what’s set to be yet another pendulum swing in the country’s foreign policy, this time to the left. That may mean a less fulsome embrace of Donald Trump than incumbent Mauricio Macri, under whom Argentina aligned more with US goals in ...

Bloomberg The UK is set for its third general election since 2015 as political leaders attempt to resolve the Brexit crisis paralysing the country. PM Boris Johnson won the backing of opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn for a snap poll to take place between December 9-12. While the date is yet to be confirmed, the vote is set to ...

Bloomberg Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam dismissed reports of her looming replacement as “very malicious,” reiterating that she had Beijing’s support despite more than four months of unrest. Lam’s comments before a meeting of the city’s Executive Council came after a Financial Times report said Beijing was mulling a plan to remove Lam after her administration failed to quell months ...

Bloomberg Lebanon’s PM Saad Hariri stepped down on Tuesday after two weeks of anti-government protests descended into violence. “I won’t hide that I reached a dead end and it’s time for a major shock to confront the crisis,” Hariri said in a televised address. “I’m going to the presidential palace in Baabda to submit my government’s resignation to the president ...

Bloomberg House Speaker Nancy Pelosi moved the Democrats’ impeachment inquiry of Donald Trump into a new phase that signals the public soon will get a look at the witnesses and evidence being assembled to build a case against the president. Amid Republican complaints that the investigation is illegitimate, Pelosi announced that the full House would vote on the next steps ...

Bloomberg President Donald Trump scored one of the biggest successes of his presidency with the killing of an IS leader, yet the battlefield victory isn’t likely to blunt the momentum of Democrats moving closer to impeaching him. The inquiry led by three House committees resumed with another slate of witnesses, even as the country absorbs Trump’s dramatic announcement of the ...

Bloomberg President-elect Alberto Fernandez will discuss the transition of power in Argentina with the defeated incumbent, Mauricio Macri, after an election in which voters opted for left-wing populism over pro-market policies to combat the country’s economic crisis. Fernandez, a political insider who has never held national office, was expected to meet with Macri on Monday after sweeping to power in ...