Politics

Bloomberg Mexico detained thousands more migrants in April than a year ago after US President Donald Trump threatened to close the border, representing a shift in focus for the nation’s leftist president away from granting humanitarian visas. Under President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, 20,564 people were presented to immigration authorities in April compared with 11,486 in April 2018, an increase ...

Bloomberg South Africa’s African National Congress (ANC) has extended its quarter-century grip on political power and it largely has President Cyril Ramaphosa to thank for halting its decline. The ANC won 57.3% of the votes cast in the national elections, official tallies from 90% of the voting stations show. The party looked to be in danger of losing its majority ...

Bloomberg South Korea said President Donald Trump supports the donation of food to North Korea through a UN agency, as the top US envoy noted the regime’s growing impatience with sputtering nuclear talks. Trump and South Korean President Moon Jae-in — who has tried to serve as a bridge between the US president and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un — ...

Bloomberg International investigators should probe the killings of more than 200 people in Ethiopia amid a territorial dispute near the Sudanese border, a regional official said. The violence occurred in Agew Awi Zone in Amhara state, according to Adigo Amsaya, the deputy president of neighbouring Benishangul-Gumuz state. “Those responsible for this massacre have to be held accountable,” Adigo said by ...

Bloomberg President Donald Trump’s advisers are pushing him to defy congressional investigations in hopes of luring Democrats into escalating a fight that they say will turn voters against the party in the 2020 elections. The advisers are counting on news coverage of the battle with Congress — including Democrats’ raising the possibility of impeachment — distracting attention from candidates vying ...

Bloomberg Finland is edging closer to having a broad coalition government after Social Democrat Leader Antti Rinne invited the Center Party of outgoing Prime Minister Juha Sipila to the negotiations. Rinne, who has been mandated to lead the talks after his party emerged on top in the election, also asked the Greens, the Left Alliance and the Swedish People’s Party ...

Bloomberg British PM Theresa May was expected to face lawmakers in parliament after another day of inconclusive talks with the opposition Labour Party further dented her hopes of reaching a Brexit deal. Already under pressure after a disastrous set of results for her Conservative Party in local elections, the beleaguered premier’s cabinet concluded that cross-party talks are stalling and unlikely ...

Bloomberg The weapons North Korea launched travelled into the stratosphere and flew at a distance long enough to strike deep into South Korean territory, according to a South Korean assessment. South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff did not indicate what was fired off of North Korea’s east coast and into the sea, but experts believe at least one ballistic missile ...

Bloomberg A wildfire engulfed three villages in the northwest of war-torn South Sudan, killing at least 31 people and destroying homes and livestock, a regional official said. Some 68 others were injured in the inferno that began in Korok county, part of Lol state, according to local Information Minister Mathok Wal. The cause of the fire. which was spread by ...

Bloomberg US Secretary of State Michael Pompeo cancelled a visit to Berlin on Tuesday at short notice, citing “pressing issues” that forced him to pull out of talks with Chancellor Angela Merkel and Foreign Minister Heiko Maas. “We look forward to rescheduling this important set of meetings,” State Department spokeswoman Morgan Ortagus said, without elaborating on the nature of the ...