Politics

Bloomberg The man seeking to oust Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro called on residents of poorer areas south of the capital to protest his rule, as three blackouts in less than a month have virtually shut down the country. Many schools and businesses have been closed for five days. “We will continue to hit the streets,” Juan Guaido, head of the ...

Bloomberg United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres said Libyan warlord Khalifa Haftar and his competitors in the Tripoli government are closer to finding a power-sharing agreement that would break the political deadlock in the divided North African country. Haftar and the UN-backed prime minister Fayez al-Sarraj have been negotiating a united caretaker government ahead of possible elections. But the talks ...

Bloomberg Elizabeth Warren issued a call to arms while Amy Klobuchar made an appeal to unity as Democratic presidential candidates offered different messages they hope will chip away at President Donald Trump’s support across the Farm Belt. Warren, who’s called for breaking up tech behemoths and large agricultural corporations, cast her campaign as “about standing our ground and fighting back” ...

Bloomberg US President Donald Trump gave North Korean leader Kim Jong-un a list of demands that included a call for handing over nuclear weapons and bomb fuel to the US in their talks in Hanoi last month, Reuters reported, citing the document. Trump handed Kim the piece of paper stating the US position at their meeting in Hanoi’s Metropole Hotel ...

Bloomberg President Donald Trump said he’ll close the southern border next week unless Mexico “immediately” stops illegal migration into the US, which his Homeland Security secretary said threatens a “system-wide meltdown” at her agency. “Closing the border will be a profit-making operation,” Trump told reporters at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida. “There’s a very good likelihood that I’ll ...

Bloomberg Palestinian demonstrators and Israeli soldiers clashed at the Gaza border on Saturday, the one-year anniversary of Hamas-led protests to draw attention to the territory’s plight. About 50,000 protesters had joined the rally, with one Palestinian shot dead by Israeli forces and a few dozen needing treatment for tear-gas exposure, according to Palestinian reports. The army said it was using ...

Bloomberg Britain is edging closer to a general election after parliament rejected Theresa May’s Brexit deal for a third time, deepening the political crisis that has overtaken the country’s bitter divorce from the European Union. Speaking after the result of the vote was announced, the prime minister gave a veiled warning that an election could be necessary to end the ...

Bloomberg Slovaks are voting in a presidential runoff that will probably lift a liberal pro-European Union lawyer to the nation’s highest office in a rebuke of the populism that’s sweeping parts of the bloc’s ex-communist wing. Zuzana Caputova, a 45-year-old, captured a strong lead in support before the ballot. Poised to become Slovakia’s first woman president, she swept up more ...

Bloomberg A secretive group seeking to overthrow Kim Jong-un’s regime claimed responsibility for a raid last month on North Korea’s embassy in Madrid, alleging the country’s overseas missions are conduits for illicit funds. The group, called Free Joseon and previously known as Cheollima Civil Defense, said in a statement posted to its website that its actions were in response “to ...

Bloomberg As talks between US President Donald Trump and North Korea’s Kim Jong-un flourished last year, South Korean leader Moon Jae-in enjoyed international praise for bringing them together. Now that they’ve split, he’s facing pressure to get them back to the table. Trump’s decision to walk away from his Hanoi summit with Kim continues to reverberate a month later in ...