Politics

Bloomberg Australia has rejected a US extradition request for an Iranian student who had been accused of conspiring to smuggle electronic military devices to his homeland. “I considered that, in all the circumstances of this particular case, Mr Dehbashi Kivi should not ultimately be extradited to the United States,” Attorney-General Christian Porter said in a statement, the same day Iran ...

Bloomberg Tunisians went to the polls on Sunday with the major political parties looking to rebound from their defeat by outsiders in last month’s presidential vote by securing a strong position in the powerful parliament. Choosing the 217-member assembly has traditionally been the principal election in the North African country since its 2011 uprising ushered in democracy. But the shock ...

Bloomberg Even before the prospect of impeaching Donald Trump arose, the US Supreme Court term that opens on Monday was going to thrust the justices into the nation’s political wars in the run-up to next year’s election. In its first full term with two Trump appointees, the court is planning to hear fights over deportation protections and gun regulations. The ...

Bloomberg France will take steps to improve screening after a suspected terrorist attack in Paris in which a police employee knifed four colleagues to death and hurt two more, raising questions about national security. The government will set up two task forces to make proposals by the end of the year to improve screening at the Paris police department intelligence ...

Bloomberg President Donald Trump’s battle against an accelerating impeachment inquiry is growing tougher after a week of damaging revelations and self-inflicted wounds that emboldened Democrats and put the White House on defense. The president added to the frenzy by publicly calling on Ukraine and China to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden, echoing the conduct that sparked the impeachment effort ...

Bloomberg The Taliban met with US special envoy Zalmay Khalilzad in Pakistan, for the first time since US President Donald Trump ended negotiations for an Afghan peace deal, the Associated Press (AP) reported. Khalilzad met with the Taliban delegation led by Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar in Islamabad, the AP said, citing an unidentified Taliban official. The US has said peace ...

Bloomberg North Korea sent a group of working-level officials to Dandong, China, to prepare for a possible visit by its leader Kim Jong-un, according to South Korean newspaper Dong-A Ilbo. “It won’t be surprising if Kim visits China soon,” a person familiar with North Korean issues was quoted by the newspaper as saying. An unnamed South Korean official told the ...

Bloomberg Hong Kong went into near shutdown as businesses closed and rail services were suspended for the first time in more than 20 years after overnight violence described by Chief Executive Carrie Lam as a “very dark day.” A person was shot and injured during a scuffle between a plain-clothes police officer and demonstrators who had attacked his car. The ...

Bloomberg Cameroon president Paul Biya has ordered the release of opposition leader Maurice Kamto, who was detained in January for organising demonstrations in the central African nation. The president ordered all proceedings pending before the Yaounde Military Tribunal against Kamto discontinued, according to a statement read on state radio by the secretary general. Supporters of the Cameroon Renaissance Movement had ...

Bloomberg When Fabian Picardo became chief minister of Gibraltar — the rocky relic of British colonialism at the tip of Spain — he could scarcely have imagined that his main concern one day would be keeping shelves stocked at the local supermarkets. That was before Brexit posed the greatest risk to the tiny territory and its 32,000 inhabitants in decades. ...