Politics

Bloomberg France’s Yellow Vest protesters took to the streets for a 22nd weekend, leading to clashes with police in the southwestern city of Toulouse, while the capital remained calm. Police used tear gas and water cannon in Toulouse to keep demonstrators out of the centre of the city, France.tv showed. Parts of Paris and some regional cities were declared off limits ...

Bloomberg Roger Stone, a sometime adviser and confidant of President Donald Trump, launched a blunderbuss attack on his indictment by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, filing a flurry of papers claiming he was singled out for prosecution and demanding that his lawyers be allowed to see the special counsel’s final report. A longtime Republican political operative and dirty trickster, Stone was ...

Bloomberg North Korean leader Kim Jong-un said he’s willing to hold a third summit with President Donald Trump as long as the US offers acceptable terms for an agreement by the end of the year. In remarks carried by the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), Kim said he wouldn’t welcome a repeat of the Hanoi summit in February, when ...

Bloomberg Sudan’s pro-democracy movement claimed the scalp of its second leader in less than a week after the head of a transitional government stepped down to be replaced by another military figure. Defense Minister Ahmed Awad Ibn Auf announced his resignation in a televised speech, less than two days after the army ousted President Omar al-Bashir. The move was met ...

Bloomberg The US condemned the Taliban’s launch of a new spring offensive in Afghanistan as the world’s biggest military power continues to pursue peace talks with militants in the war-torn country. Calling the Taliban move “reckless,” US Special Envoy on Afghan Reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad said on Twitter that the insurgents demonstrated their “indifference” to the peace demands of the Afghan ...

Bloomberg Secretary of State Michael Pompeo blamed China and Russia for spreading “disorder” in Latin America by funding failing development projects and supporting leaders such as Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, who the US insists must step down from power. Pompeo, speaking in Chile at the start of a three-day South American tour, said Beijing and Moscow have fuelled corruption and ...

Bloomberg Theresa May will stay on as British prime minister to get Brexit done, even if that means remaining in the job until the end of October, Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond said. May promised to step aside once the divorce agreement has been passed in parliament, so a new leader can take charge of the next phase of ...

Bloomberg The Philippines asked China to refrain from acts that could disrupt the two nations’ improving relations amid simmering tension in the South China Sea. “China should avoid performing acts that will place at risk the Filipino fishermen fishing in the disputed areas and at the same time cause irritants that will disrupt the current friendly relations,” President Rodrigo Duterte’s ...

Bloomberg A year ago, South Korean President Moon Jae-in was preparing to host Kim Jong-un on the southern side of their fortified border — a historic high-water mark that fuelled talk of a Nobel Peace Prize. Now, he’s heading back to Washington, hoping a direct appeal to US President Donald Trump can keep all that from slipping away. The South ...

Bloomberg The US sent a fighter-jet-carrying warship to join drills near the disputed Scarborough Shoal for the first time, sending a pointed message to China as tensions simmer over territorial claims in the region. The USS Wasp — an amphibious assault ship outfitted last year with F-35B jets — joined the annual Exercise Balikatan with the Philippines this month. A ...