Politics

Bloomberg Palestinians demonstrated in the West Bank on Monday against a Trump administration plan to raise tens of billions of dollars to boost their economy, calling it a “snow job” meant to persuade them to give up their goal of statehood. About 2,000 people converged on central Ramallah carrying a coffin meant to symbolise the death of this week’s US-backed ...

Bloomberg Andrej Babis, the billionaire Czech prime minister, is brushing off the nation’s biggest protest in 30 years, when the nation rose up and toppled communism. As many as 250,000 people rallied in Prague, seeking to pressure Babis to resign over his business interests and concern he may meddle with the courts. The premier, who won power in 2017 on ...

Bloomberg Boris Johnson faces mounting pressure to submit to public scrutiny, after his rival in the race to be UK prime minister tried to turn questions about the front-runner’s character to his advantage. Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt, the underdog candidate in the contest to lead the ruling Conservative Party, called on Johnson to take part in more media interviews and ...

Bloomberg President Donald Trump said the US will impose major new sanctions on Iran on Monday, days after he abruptly called off a plan for airstrikes against the Islamic Republic based on the concept of proportionality after Iran shot down a US Navy drone. The sanctions move, announced on Twitter with no additional detail, came as Trump spent the day ...

Bloomberg The Ethiopian army’s chief of staff was shot dead by a bodyguard in what the government of Africa’s second-most populous country said was an assassination related to an attempted coup. General Seare Mekonnen and retired Major General Gezai Abera were killed at the army chief’s residence in the capital, Addis Ababa, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s office said in an ...

Bloomberg President Donald Trump put off for two weeks the start of a planned nationwide roundup of undocumented immigrants, tempering a vow made to have them “removed from the country” starting next week. Trump said he was acting “at the request of Democrats,” although immigration officials suggested that reports on the timing of the actions played a role. The delay ...

Bloomberg North Korean leader Kim Jong-un received a personal letter from US President Donald Trump, state media KCNA reported. The letter has “excellent content” and Kim, along with his military, read it with “satisfaction,” KCNA reported. Correspondence between Trump and Kim “has been ongoing,” White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said in a statement, confirming the letter was sent ...

Bloomberg Boris Johnson pitched his bid for UK prime minister to Conservative Party members and drew cheers when he dodged questions about a spat with his partner that brought the police to his London home. Front-runner Johnson and his opponent Jeremy Hunt made their opening appeals to grass-roots Tories at a hustings, or political roadshow, that focussed attention on Johnson’s ...

Bloomberg President Donald Trump said he called off retaliatory strikes on three Iranian sites following the downing of a US Navy drone because the action wouldn’t have been “proportionate.” “We were cocked & loaded to retaliate last night on 3 different sights when I asked, how many will die. 150 people, sir, was the answer from a General,” Trump tweeted. ...

Bloomberg United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet called on the Venezuelan government to release political prisoners. “I call on the authorities to free all those who are detained for peacefully exercising their civil and political rights,” Bachelet said via webcast before departing Venezuela after a three-day visit. The UN will leave two officials in Caracas to provide ...