Politics

Bloomberg India’s main opposition Congress party has pledged to tackle unemployment and poverty as it seeks to wrest power from Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ruling coalition just days out from a national election. Led by Rahul Gandhi, the party released its election manifesto in New Delhi, promising to rid India of poverty by 2030, waive farm loans, introduce a single ...

Bloomberg Theresa May is expected to confront her most senior ministers with the potentially explosive option of delaying Brexit by months, as the UK struggles to find a plan for leaving the European Union. The British prime minister will hold five hours of crisis talks with her cabinet, with the pro- and anti-Brexit factions in her top team set to ...

Bloomberg Mozambique has confirmed more than 1,000 cases of cholera as an outbreak of the water-borne disease spreads following a tropical cyclone last month which has so far killed at least 598 people in the southeast African nation. The number of cholera infections rose from 246 on March 30, the health ministry said in a statement. President Filipe Nyusi last ...

Bloomberg South Korean President Moon Jae-in urged Kim Jong-un to heed calls to return to the negotiating table after talks broke down between the North Korean leader and President Donald Trump. “I expect North Korea to respond to efforts made by South Korea and the US,” Moon said during a meeting with his senior advisers in Seoul. Moon is expected ...

Bloomberg More than 200 Chinese ships have been spotted near the Philippine-occupied Thitu Island in the South China Sea since the start of the year, triggering a diplomatic protest from the Philippines. The fishing vessels stationed near the disputed island are likely part of China’s sea militia, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s spokesman Salvador Panelo said at a briefing on Monday, ...

Bloomberg China and New Zealand signed agreements on eliminating double taxation and tax avoidance as the two countries look to shore up relations following a series of incidents that cast doubt on the strength of their economic partnership. President Xi Jinping welcomed New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, with the two ...

Bloomberg European voters may be starting to put a damper on nationalists who want to shift the continent’s political direction. Ahead of next month’s European Parliament elections, Slovakia provided one of the last signals of voter sentiment when it elected a socially liberal anti-corruption campaigner as president over populist challengers. Zuzana Caputova’s victory may serve as a warning to euroskeptic ...

Bloomberg Indonesia’s opposition has warned of street protests if irregularities in the country’s electoral roll are not resolved before the presidential poll later this month. Political parties backing Prabowo Subianto’s bid for presidency will legally challenge the outcome if the former general loses the poll to incumbent Joko Widodo in the April 17 vote, Hashim Djojohadikusumo, communications director for Prabowo’s ...

Bloomberg North Korea says it’s monitoring “rumours” the FBI was involved in a recent raid on its embassy in Spain. In Pyongyang’s first public statement on the incident, an unidentified foreign ministry spokesperson said North Korea is tracking rumours that the FBI and an anti-North Korea group were involved in the “grave terrorist attack” on its embassy in Madrid on ...

Bloomberg South Korean President Moon Jae-in retracted his nomination for science minister, following a series of high-level resignations that are complicating a cabinet reshuffle and distracting from his efforts to revive nuclear negotiations with North Korea. Moon’s decision to withdraw the appointment of Cho Dong Ho to oversee science and communications policies was based on “a comprehensive review,” Moon’s spokesman ...