Politics

Bloomberg President Donald Trump brushed off news of a possible weapons test by North Korea, vowing that leader Kim Jong-un “will do nothing to interfere” and that a denuclearisation deal with the US “will happen.” Saturday’s tweet, posted while Trump was in a motorcade to the Trump National Golf Club in Virginia, was the president’s first response to news that ...

Bloomberg Almost 150 rockets were fired at Israel from the Gaza Strip on Saturday, with Israel returning the strikes, its military said. The flare-up marked the latest escalation between the two sides. Gaza’s barrage followed the killing of four Palestinians by Israel. Two of those who died were Hamas extremists killed in an airstrike and two were demonstrators taking part ...

Bloomberg Donald Trump said that Russian President Vladimir Putin isn’t seeking to “get involved” in the crisis in Venezuela, despite assertions by the American president’s top national security advisers that the Kremlin is offering critical support to Nicolas Maduro’s regime. “He is not looking at all to get involved in Venezuela other than he’d like to see something positive happen ...

Bloomberg Cyclone Fani barreled through the eastern parts of India on May 3, unleashing heavy rain and prompting authorities in the country and neighbouring Bangladesh to evacuate a total of more than 3.5 million people to shelters. At least 12 people were killed as the storm swamped towns and villages, the Press Trust of India reported, citing government officials it ...

Bloomberg Voters in England punished both Theresa May’s Conservatives and Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour opposition in local elections, piling pressure on the two party leaders to resolve the Brexit crisis paralysing British politics. Britain’s major parties interpreted their poor results as an angry demand from a frustrated population to deal with Brexit, which has locked Parliament in a stalemate for months. ...

Bloomberg The referee, it seems, has taken sides. After spending much of the last 10 months acting as a mediator between the feuding deputy premiers who hold the real power in Italy’s government, PM Giuseppe Conte appears to have sided with one of them: the Five Star Movement’s Luigi Di Maio. When Conte called for the resignation of a cabinet ...

Bloomberg It was a ploy that from its outset felt like a long shot. Before dawn, Juan Guaido, flanked by his political mentor Leopoldo Lopez and a handful of soldiers who had broken ranks, issued a message to Venezuela and the world: The time to topple Nicolas Maduro’s authoritarian regime was right now. By dusk, with Maduro still firmly in ...

Bloomberg Afghanistan’s government is making no headway in rolling back territory controlled by the Taliban, a Pentagon watchdog found, even as the Trump administration tries to negotiate a peace agreement that would let the US withdraw troops after 18 years of war. Afghan army casualty rates, an erosion of force levels and increased civilian deaths are all preventing president Ashraf ...

Bloomberg The UK’s main opposition Labour Party predicted Theresa May will have to accept a customs union with the European Union as the price for getting her Brexit deal ratified in Parliament. “I think pragmatically, they potentially may have no option in order to push this deal through,” Labour’s business spokeswoman, Rebecca Long-Bailey, told BBC Radio 4 when asked about ...

Bloomberg Special Counsel Robert Mueller expressed frustration over how Attorney General William Barr characterised his findings and analysis regarding whether President Donald Trump obstructed justice, according to a letter Mueller sent to Barr. Mueller contacted Barr to express his displeasure after Barr issued a four-page letter characterising the main findings of Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, ...