Politics

Bloomberg US National Security Adviser John Bolton warned Iran’s proxies not to attack US interests, saying any assault on their patron’s behalf would “risk a very strong response.” Bolton, in a briefing with reporters in Abu Dhabi on Wednesday, said the US is “very concerned” that the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps would use allied Shiite militia groups in Iraq to ...

Bloomberg PM Narendra Modi has once again taken control of India’s lower house of parliament. But it’s the upper house, which has thwarted him in the past, that might now define his reform agenda — and his position there is set to improve. That could place long-awaited but politically controversial land and labour reforms back on the political agenda, a ...

Bloomberg As the Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari began his second term on Wednesday, he did so with the blessing of just 8 percent of the nation’s 201 million people. While Buhari won 56 percent of the ballots, only 15.2 million of the 29 million registered voters backed him. The 35 percent turnout, down from 44 percent in the last elections ...

Bloomberg Boris Johnson’s leadership ambitions were dealt an embarrassing setback when a London judge ruled that he must attend court to face allegations of misconduct in public office. Conservative Party favourite Johnson will face a preliminary hearing and then a criminal trial, District Judge Margot Coleman said on Wednesday, allowing an unprecedented private prosecution attempt to proceed against the politician. ...

Bloomberg Just days after a rousing European election victory, Italian Deputy PM Matteo Salvini is gearing up for a new clash with his weakened coalition ally over a corruption case involving an official from his own League party. The tussle over Deputy Infrastructure Minister Edoardo Rixi, who’s among politicians linked to a probe dubbed “Crazy Expenses,” has triggered new tension ...

Bloomberg British Conservatives may have suffered their worst election results ever, but their members of parliament are still feeling loved. Barely a day goes by without an invitation to coffee from one senior minister or another, hoping to win their support in the coming race to succeed Theresa May. Perhaps they would like to come to the Foreign Office, to ...

Bloomberg Ousted Austrian leader Sebastian Kurz started his campaign to take back the chancellery hours after his estranged coalition partners in the nationalist Freedom Party joined the opposition in a vote to dismiss him. The youngest Austrian head of government also became the shortest-serving and the first to be thrown out of office since the country was reconstituted after World ...

Bloomberg President Donald Trump rallied US and Japanese troops to wrap up a four-day state visit that focused more on pageantry than resolving deep differences on trade between the long-standing allies. On a trip where no major agreement was reached, Trump’s statements were persistently at odds with the Japanese. He said he’s aiming to reach a trade deal by August, ...

Bloomberg President Emmanuel Macron will push chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier as his choice to lead the European Commission, a senior French official said, as European leaders meet in Brussels to begin the jostling to fill the bloc’s leadership spots. The official said on condition of anonymity that the French leader first wants to agree on the commission president before ...

Bloomberg The European Court of Human Rights delivered a blow to the Catalan secessionist movement, ruling that in 2017 Spanish judges legally suspended a regional parliamentary session in the wake of a controversial independence vote. The complaint brought by 76 people living in Barcelona was “manifestly ill-founded” and the Spanish judges’ move was legal, the Strasbourg, France-based human rights court ...