Politics

Bloomberg Iran warned the US against apprehending a supertanker carrying the Middle East country’s oil, leaving the fate of the vessel uncertain as it sailed east into the Mediterranean Sea from Gibraltar, where it been detained since last month. The tanker, formerly called the Grace 1 and now known as the Adrian Darya 1, was signaling — at least for ...

Bloomberg Leaders of Russia’s lower house of parliament met to discuss alleged foreign meddling in the country’s affairs including in elections, amid the biggest wave of protests in Moscow in seven years. The council of the State Duma, comprising party leaders and top officials, held a special session to create a commission to investigate “the facts of possible interference in ...

Bloomberg Spain accused Italy of breaking international rules with its failure to allow a ship carrying 107 migrants to dock at an Italian port. Italy “is keeping its ports closed in breach of all the rules,” acting Deputy Prime Minister Carmen Calvo said in an interview with Cadena Ser radio. “We are talking about people, about laws that everyone has ...

Bloomberg Four senior Hong Kong democrats have found themselves labeled by Chinese state media as a new “Gang of Four,” as Beijing seeks to assign blame for the largely leaderless protest movement rocking the city. A string of state media editorials have compared the long-time opposition figures — including former Chief Secretary Anson Chan, former Democratic Party chief Albert Ho, ...

Bloomberg An IS affiliate said it was responsible for a suicide bombing attack at a wedding hall in Afghanistan’s capital that killed 63. More than 180 others were injured in the attack, which took place at 10:40 pm in the western part of Kabul, Nasrat Rahimi, a spokesman at the Interior Ministry, said by phone on Sunday. There were about ...

Bloomberg Yemen’s Houthi rebel government appointed its first ambassador to Iran, days after a delegation met Iran’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei in Tehran, the rebel-held Saba news agency. The appointment of Ibrahim Mohammed Al-Dailami is meant to boost ties between Yemen and Iran, the rebel ­­­said on TV. Al-Houthi said the relationship with Tehran will be better than it was ...

Bloomberg The Government of Gibraltar says European Union regulations don’t allow it to seek a court order to seize a tanker which the US accuses of breaching its sanctions by exporting Iranian oil. The US issued a warrant to seize the supertanker, which has been detained by the UK and Gibraltar since July, on suspicion of hauling Iranian oil to ...

Bloomberg Boris Johnson will travel to Germany and France this week to make clear that Britain is leaving the European Union on October 31 with or without a deal. The prime minister will tell German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron that the EU must offer a new deal or face Britain leaving the bloc without one. The ...

Bloomberg Spain’s government will make available the southern port of Algeciras to receive the migrant rescue ship Open Arms given the refusal by Italy to allow it to dock. Acting Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez is taking the step given the “emergency situation” facing the Spanish vessel with more than 100 migrants off the Italian island of Lampedusa, his government said ...

Bloomberg French President Emmanuel Macron hosts Russian leader Vladimir Putin at his summer residence on Monday and his office is adamant about what the get-together is not. France isn’t playing the role of go-between with Russia and other world powers, Macron’s office says, after being stung by a tweet from President Donald Trump earlier in August that suggested Paris was ...