Politics

Bloomberg North Korean leader Kim Jong-un inspected a new submarine that would soon be deployed to waters between the peninsula and Japan, state media said, a move that comes as his regime tries to step up its ability to launch missiles from subs. There was no indication in the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) report whether the submarine was capable ...

Bloomberg Iran, locked in a worsening political standoff with Western powers, has handed down death sentences to several nationals accused of being part of a CIA-trained spy network uncovered earlier this year, an official said on Monday. Seventeen people were arrested in all, a senior intelligence official told foreign media in Tehran. None of the suspects are dual nationals, according ...

Bloomberg A car bombing by al-Qaeda-linked militants killed at least seven people in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, a police officer said. At least nine others were wounded in the blast near a police checkpoint and hotel in the city’s K4 neighbourhood, officer Ilkase Abdi said by phone from the scene. Al-Shabaab took responsibility for the attack in a statement to Radio ...

Bloomberg As the protest in Hong Kong entered its sixth week, the spotlight turned to Yuen Long, a suburb that’s closer to Shenzhen along the mainland Chinese border than the city’s central area. Fights broke out in the Yuen Long metro station miles away from the main protests after groups of men in white shirts attacked passengers with sticks and ...

Bloomberg Prime Minister Theresa May is leading a meeting of the UK’s emergency committee to discuss the security of shipping in the Persian Gulf, after Iran seized a British oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz. May and the committee of top officials and ministers, dubbed Cobra, has convened in London, her office said. Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt and Defence ...

Bloomberg Italy’s fractious populist coalition lurches into a make-or-break week as Matteo Salvini decides whether to try to force snap elections while Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte struggles to salvage the government. The fate of the coalition hangs on a possible meeting between Deputy Premier Salvini and his ally-cum-rival Luigi Di Maio of the Five Star Movement, and government talks on ...

Bloomberg At a political rally sometime in the coming weeks, Donald Trump will almost certainly be met again with a chant rising from an auditorium packed with boisterous supporters: “Send her back!” In that moment Trump will have to choose a course. He could turn to the crowd and deliver an unambiguous condemnation, telling his supporters that they shouldn’t persist ...

Bloomberg Ukraine’s anti-establishment political turn is poised to accelerate in Sunday’s snap general elections, with ex-comedian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s movement on track to sweep traditional forces out of power. Half a decade after street protests that toppled Russian-backed leader Viktor Yanukovych, Zelenskiy has tapped into voter anger over the lack of progress in flushing dirty officials out of state institutions ...

Bloomberg Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari condemned attacks that killed 37 people in the Goronyo community in the northern state of Sokoto. “This frequent and large scale killings of poor villagers by gangs of mass murderers must be met with the fiercest force the government can mobilise,” the president said in a statement emailed by his spokesman Garba Shehu, without stating ...

Bloomberg National Security Adviser John Bolton has left for Japan and South Korea as the US faces a range of issues in the region from trade tensions between its two allies to North Korea’s threat to scrap nuclear talks. Bolton “departed for Japan and South Korea to continue conversations with critical allies and friends,” Garrett Marquis, spokesman for the National ...