Politics

Bloomberg In Haiti’s historic breadbasket, a dozen farmers worked in ankle-deep water, stooped under a piercing blue sky in a lush region dominated for generations by rice fields, and more recently by roving bands of armed men. The gunmen, linked to an infamous gang leader named Arnel Joseph, have been waylaying travellers in the Artibonite Valley, driving out police and ...

Bloomberg Kazakhs elected former leader Nursultan Nazarbayev’s favoured successor as president, signalling political continuity in central Asia’s biggest energy producer even as street protests flared and international observers attacked the conduct of the vote. Kassym-Jomart Tokayev won the ballot with 71 percent, defeating six other candidates, according to a central election commission statement broadcast by state TV, which put turnout ...

Bloomberg The European Union and Russia have both come out in support of a coalition government in Moldova, long on the fault line between East and West, in a dispute that has left the country of 3.5 million with two presidents and two governments. The pro-Russian Socialist Party of President Igor Dodon made a surprise announcement it was forming a ...

Bloomberg Hong Kong’s leader pledged to press ahead with Beijing-backed legislation easing extraditions to China despite one of Hong Kong’s largest protests since the former British colony’s return more than two decades ago. Chief Executive Carrie Lam told reporters that the government “could see people are still concerned about the bill,” which would allow Hong Kong to enter into one-time ...

Bloomberg Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte has a message for the quarrelsome populists who’ve run Italy’s coalition government over the last year: keep quiet, and let me do the talking. The government will be done if Italy can’t make a budget compromise with the European Union, Conte told Corriere della Sera. Without a deal, “we all risk to go home. For ...

Bloomberg Islamist extremists are likely to try to carry out attacks in Ghana as their influence is spreading in West Africa, according to the UK Foreign Office. Groups associated with the regional offshoots of al-Qaeda and IS present a threat and have “demonstrated capability and intent by mounting attacks against security forces and civilians in several countries,” most recently in ...

Bloomberg Boris Johnson ramped up his campaign to become Britain’s next prime minister, vowing to take the country out of the European Union with or without a deal on October 31 and promising to hold onto money owed to the bloc until terms of the divorce become more favorable to the UK. In an interview with the Sunday Times, Johnson ...

Bloomberg Kazakhs are voting in presidential elections that were called after longtime ruler Nursultan Nazarbayev stepped down following three decades in power. Seven candidates are competing to become only the second president of central Asia’s largest energy producer since it gained independence from the former Soviet Union in 1991. Polling, which began on Sunday and was expected to close at ...

Bloomberg President Donald Trump’s deal with Mexico to get help on the border in exchange for withdrawing the threat of US import tariffs got a quick thumbs-down from Nancy Pelosi. The House Speaker released a statement saying Trump had “undermined America’s preeminent leadership role in the world” by hanging the threat of tariffs over Mexico. “We are deeply disappointed by ...

Bloomberg Former Vice President Joe Biden and Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont led the field of 2020 Democratic presidential candidates in a poll of Iowa voters likely to participate in the first nominating contest, still almost eight months away. Biden has the support of 24 percent of likely participants in the Iowa caucuses. He’s followed by Sanders at 16 percent. ...