Politics

Bloomberg A group of South Korean students broke into the residence of American ambassador Harry Harris, in a protest against Donald Trump’s campaign to get the Asian nation to pay more for US military support. Nineteen students, who described themselves as members of a liberal university students’ group, were detained by police after staging a protest against plans to impose ...

Bloomberg A dam collapsed at a gold mine in Russia’s Krasnoyarsk region, leaving at least 15 people dead, the Ministry of Emergency Situations said on its website. The collapse happened at about 2 am Moscow time near one of the small local gold mining companies’ operations, the ministry said. Another 13 people are still missing as emergency services continue rescue ...

Bloomberg President Donald Trump confronted a steady drip of damaging revelations out of the House impeachment hearings, but it was his acting chief of staff essentially confirming one of the central allegations at the heart of the inquiry that could prove the most troublesome. Mick Mulvaney said at a White House briefing the president withheld nearly $400 million in US ...

Bloomberg China threatened unspecified “strong countermeasures” if the US Congress enacts legislation supporting Hong Kong protesters, in a sign of the deepening strain between the world’s two largest economies as they attempt to seal a trade deal. China’s foreign ministry issued the warning on Wednesday after the US House passed a package of measures backing a pro-democracy movement that has ...

Bloomberg President Donald Trump dismissed concerns that the US withdrawal from Syria has left American-allied Kurds abandoned against the Turkish military and that Russia has moved into the region to fill the void. “Syria may have some help with Russia and that’s fine,” Trump said. “It’s a lot of sand.” Trump also said the Kurds, who fought alongside American troops ...

Bloomberg India’s top court on Wednesday concluded hearing 40 days of arguments over the ownership of land in the northern city of Ayodhya that is at the heart of a long-drawn and polarising religious dispute over the construction of a temple on the site of a demolished mosque. The dispute over ownership of the 2.77 acres of land in Ayodhya ...

Bloomberg The White House designated a three-person team to bypass formal US-Ukraine policy following a meeting organised by acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney, a senior State Department official told House impeachment investigators. The official, George Kent, said he didn’t personally attend that meeting on May 23, but department officials were informed afterward that then-Special Envoy to Ukraine ...

Bloomberg Spanish PM Pedro Sanchez is under pressure to restore order in Catalonia following a night of violence in cities across the region in the wake of jail sentences handed down to separatist leaders. “It’s clear we are not facing a peaceful citizens’ movement, but one coordinated by groups that are using violence in the streets to fracture Catalan society,” ...

Bloomberg Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s party leads his top rival in safe districts ahead of Canada’s election next week, but is bleeding support to smaller parties while many races remain too close to call, polling shows. Seat projections by Nanos Research, unveiled on Wednesday at Bloomberg’s Canadian Fixed Income Conference in New York, showed Trudeau’s Liberals are on pace to ...

Bloomberg Hong Kong’s subway system has closed early for more than a week, effectively cutting off the main mode of transportation for millions of residents. Many are now wondering how long it will last. Following unprecedented vandalism on the night of October 4, when Chief Executive Carrie Lam banned face masks after invoking emergency powers last used in 1967, many ...