Politics

Bloomberg Fresh calls for protests and strikes rippled through Algeria on Monday, with some warning that President Abdelaziz Bouteflika’s determination to run for a fifth term would set the nation ablaze even as he vowed to stand down within a year. The outburst of anger came almost immediately after Bouteflika’s campaign filed his official nomination papers for the April 18 ...

Bloomberg Juan Guaido’s party said the Venezuelan rival president is coming home for marches in the capital on Monday, risking arrest in his bid to end six of years of rule by Nicolas Maduro that have led the nation into poverty and revolt. “All to the streets, beside our president Juan Guaido for his arrival at Caracas,” read an invitation ...

Bloomberg China said it would need to increase its military spending to protect itself and that it doesn’t pose a threat to other countries. “A proper increase in the defense budget is needed to safeguard national security and transform China’s military with Chinese features,” Zhang Yesui, a spokesman for China’s National People’s Congress, said at a briefing on Monday in ...

Bloomberg The US and South Korea agreed to end their biggest annual joint military drills in a bid to ease tensions with North Korea, a move that comes just days after Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un failed to reach an agreement on denuclearization at a summit in Vietnam. US Acting Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan and South Korea’s Defense Minister ...

Bloomberg Russia will “do everything possible” to avoid outside military intervention in Venezuela, Parliament Speaker Valentina Matvienko told the Latin American nation’s vice president. “We are very concerned that the US are ready for any kind of provocation to start bloodshed and justify military intervention in Venezuela,” Matvienko told Vice President Delcy Rodriguez. “We’ll do everything possible to avoid this. ...

Bloomberg When Special Counsel Robert Mueller closes up shop and submits his long-awaited final report — possibly within days — it will be only the start of an explosive chain of events. There will be a struggle in Congress, on cable TV and social media and probably in the courts over how much must be disclosed from what will begin ...

Bloomberg Thousands of protesters marched through the capitals of Serbia and Montenegro as demonstrators kept up pressure on governments to curb corruption and allow more freedom in a region that hopes to integrate with the European Union. In Montenegro’s capital Podgorica, several thousand people took part in a fourth weekend rally in a row over allegations of corrupt practices of ...

Bloomberg The US will keep pressing its European allies to take back citizens caught fighting for IS in Syria if they’re released, National Security Adviser John Bolton said. The fate of the estimated 800 to 1,000 captives taken by Kurdish militias in northeastern Syria has been a sore point since President Donald Trump tweeted in February that the UK, France, ...

Bloomberg Juan Guaido’s first stop after he skipped out of Venezuela last week was Colombia. But after he failed to push food and medicine across the borders to hasten the end of autocratic President Nicolas Maduro’s rule, he headed to Brazil. Now, he’s in Argentina following meetings in Paraguay, and is expected to head to Ecuador on Saturday to be ...

Bloomberg Pressure built on Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison after a second lawmaker quit in as many days, just weeks ahead of an upcoming national election. Defense Minister Christopher Pyne said on Saturday that he will retire at the election. Steven Ciobo, in charge of the defense industry portfolio, also said that he won’t re-contest his seat. Ciobo’s resignation makes ...