Politics

Bloomberg Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari ordered security personnel to parts of the country prone to attacks by bandits. “I have ordered rapid and robust deployment of troops to all the areas currently under attack from bandits,” Buhari said in a statement. “We are determined to tackle this challenge ferociously until these remorseless killers are crushed and utterly defeated.” The attacks ...

Bloomberg Forces loyal to the internationally recognised government in Tripoli conducted air strikes to try to halt a march on the capital by strongman Khalifa Haftar’s troops, officials said. Fighter jets struck positions near Tripoli held by Haftar’s self-styled Libyan National Army on Friday and on Saturday, LNA media official Aguila Saber and local city official Hamed al Nuwaiser said. ...

Bloomberg President Donald Trump said the US is “full,” and can’t accommodate any more migrants from Latin America, capping a week of heated threats against Mexico over undocumented migration and the flow of illegal drugs. “Our country is full. Our area is full. The sector is full,” Trump said at a briefing on border security in Calexico, California. “Can’t take ...

Bloomberg Thailand’s military establishment is intensifying attacks on a young political party that surged in March’s general election and whose 40-year-old leader is the newest symbol of opposition to the junta. The party, Future Forward, won about 18 percent of votes and is a key part of a coalition trying to prevent the junta’s proxies from forming the next government. ...

Bloomberg Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond reiterated his call to consider proposals for a second referendum on Brexit, while acknowledging that both the UK and the European Union are exasperated by the deadlock, as there’s little visibility on the next steps ahead of a key summit. “I understand that EU colleagues are somewhat fed up that the process has ...

Bloomberg Estonia moved towards a new governing coalition that includes a controversial anti-immigrant party, signalling the further spread of populism in the European Union. Prime Minister Juri Ratas’s ruling Center Party, which snubbed the election-winning Reform party and instead invited the euroskeptic EKRE to talks, overcame opposition from his party’s Russian-speaking members to agree on an alliance that also includes ...

Bloomberg President Nicolas Maduro’s Constituent Assembly, stacked with socialist-party loyalists, stripped opposition leader Juan Guaido of his immunity from prosecution, as the government ratchets up pressure against the congressman seeking to oust the country’s ruling autocrat. The Constituent Assembly, an all-powerful political body set up in 2017 to bypass the National Assembly, voted unanimously to act on the recommendation of ...

Bloomberg The first of many trials for Malaysia’s former premier Najib Razak will serve as a key test of the nation’s readiness to get to the bottom of the 1MDB scandal. Najib appeared in court on Wednesday to face seven of 42 corruption and money-laundering charges linked to his role in 1MDB, the state fund at the centre of a ...

Bloomberg Abdelaziz Bouteflika, who led Algeria out of civil war to become its longest-serving president, has resigned after throngs of protesters and even his military allies told the ailing president he’d overstayed his welcome. Though Bouteflika has rarely been seen in public since suffering a stroke in 2013, his political demise will deepen uncertainty in the North African OPEC member. ...

Bloomberg Slovakia’s outgoing president is mounting a challenge against the country’s dominant political force, capitalising on a wave of anti-corruption outrage that helped elect a pro-European liberal to replace him. Andrej Kiska will create a new political party after stepping aside in June to make way for the euro-area member’s first woman president, Zuzana Caputova, who won by a landslide ...