Politics

  Bloomberg Pakistan’s former prime minister Imran Khan ally won a confidence vote as chief minister in the Punjab Assembly, the latest electoral win for the popular opposition leader demanding early general elections. Chaudhry Parvez Elahi secured 186 votes from lawmakers in the 371-member house, speaker Muhammad Sibtain Khan announced the result in a session that lasted more than an ...

  Bloomberg India has relocated some troops from areas surrounding a sinking Himalayan town that’s near a disputed border with China, Army Chief Manoj Pande said. Pande didn’t give details on how many soldiers would be moved away for safety but said over 20 military installations around the town of Joshimath in the northern state of Uttarakhand have sustained “medium ...

  Bloomberg China said the rising number of warplanes it sends toward Taiwan were due to the island’s “military collusion” with the US, shedding light on its motives for the threatening activity. The People’s Liberation Army “drills are a solemn warning against Taipei’s increased provocation, which damaged peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait,” Ma Xiaoguang, a spokesman for China’s ...

  Bloomberg India will buy portable air defense missiles to deploy along the borders with China as militarization in the region gathers speed and hostilities between the two countries enter a third year. The Defense Acquisition Council — headed by Defense Minister Rajnath Singh — cleared the purchase of the very short range missiles that can be carried by troops, ...

  Bloomberg Former Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro used his Facebook account to share a video of voter fraud conspiracies that echod the main complaints of rioters who ransacked government buildings in Brasilia on Sunday. The video was deleted hours later. Bolsonaro’s post, made Tuesday shortly after he was discharged from a US hospital, didn’t comment on the video’s claims. But ...

Bloomberg The UK and Japan will allow military forces to be deployed to one another’s nations, as Tokyo expands bilateral cooperation with other US allies amid concerns about China’s rise. UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was expected to sign a major defense agreement during a meeting Wednesday in London with his Japanese counterpart Fumio Kishida. The pact — the most ...

  Bloomberg Ukraine will stop Russian aggression and the conflict won’t turn into World War III, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said as his forces battled to keep control of Soledar and Bakhmut in the eastern Donetsk region. The Ukrainian president discussed the Ukrainian–Belarusian border and the Rivne nuclear power plant, according to a statement on his website. “We don’t see anything ...

  Bloomberg Peru’s Congress confirmed President Dina Boluarte’s cabinet on Tuesday evening, overcoming a key test for her month-long administration that has faced mass unrest and left roughly 40 dead. The conservative-led Congress confirmed Boluarte’s cabinet with 73 votes in favor out of a total of 130 lawmakers. The confirmation gives Boluarte some breathing room just a day after the ...

Bloomberg A day after Brazil’s capital was stormed by his predecessor’s supporters, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva worked from his office, where he met with the country’s governors as well as the heads of congress and the Supreme Court. “We are not going to allow democracy to slip out of our hands,” Lula said at the meeting. “They want ...

Bloomberg The European Union and Nato further solidified their relationship Tuesday when European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, European Council President Charles Michel and Nato Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg signed a new joint declaration of cooperation. A top Biden administration official said a deal struck by the new Republican House majority to cap 2024 spending would not imperil aid ...