Politics

Bloomberg The US Navy has asserted that the recent passage of its guided-missile destroyer USS Wayne E Meyer in waters near the Paracel Islands in the South China Sea is consistent with its stance on international law that allows freedom of navigation, according to a statement on Saturday. “China, Taiwan, and Vietnam each claim sovereignty over the Paracel Islands,“ the ...

Bloomberg The Taliban sent a team to Russia, and plans to visit China, Iran and Central Asian states to gauge support for the US to be forced to leave Afghanistan, Reuters reported, citing the group’s officials. The group wants to keep regional leaders informed about the breakdown of the talks and US President Donald Trump’s decision to suspend the process ...

Bloomberg A pact between Malaysia’s biggest opposition parties is set to pose a key challenge to Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad’s multiracial coalition that has sought to win support from the Malay Muslim majority. United Malays National Organisation (UMNO) the largest party in the alliance that ruled the country for six decades before being ousted last year, and Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party ...

Bloomberg Three-and-a-half years after he quit as British prime minister in the wake of the Brexit referendum, David Cameron has got his revenge on the man he blames for his defeat: Boris Johnson. In an interview with the Times newspaper ahead of the publication of his memoirs next week, Cameron accused Johnson of originally campaigning for Brexit not because he ...

Bloomberg US Supreme Court decision preventing thousands of migrants from claiming asylum at the border threatens families as safety and health deteriorate for a suddenly immobile population, say immigration lawyers and activists. The travellers, many with small children, are now rushing to find housing, food and medical care as they’re stuck in dangerous Mexican border cities for far longer than ...

Bloomberg Russia warned Europe’s human rights tribunal it risks opening a “Pandora’s box” of politically motivated cases if it accepts Ukraine’s claims that Moscow-led forces committed atrocities in the Crimea. The legal gambit by Russia’s Deputy Justice Minister Mikhail Galperin came as both sides faced off at the first public hearing at the European Court of Human Rights in the ...

Bloomberg John Bolton’s departure as the president’s national security adviser removes one source of American tension with the world. But it means that Donald Trump may increasingly shape US foreign policy himself. Longtime hawk Bolton — fired by Trump citing disagreements on policy — was a key enabler for the president to take a hard line on Iran and North ...

Bloomberg The end of John Bolton’s fractious tenure as national security adviser leaves one man at the helm of the Trump administration’s foreign policy as it manages crises from Iran to North Korea: Secretary of State Michael Pompeo. From the moment Bolton arrived at the White House in April 2018, he brought a hawkish foreign policy vision honed over decades ...

Bloomberg Heading into his re-election campaign, President Donald Trump faces months of inquiries by House Democrats beyond a potential impeachment probe. The scrutiny extends from Trump’s personal finances to decisions made by the White House on issues such as health care and immigration, his alleged direct involvement in payments to silence two women claiming to have had affairs with him ...

Bloomberg Prime Minister Boris Johnson lost a Scottish court ruling on the suspension of parliament, throwing the deadlocked British political system into even greater confusion ahead of the October 31 Brexit date. The court, in a short ruling, said that the purpose of the Prime Minister’s move was to unlawfully “stymie” parliament. The unanimous decision on Wednesday by a panel ...