Politics

Bloomberg The slapdash nature of Donald Trump’s second summit with Kim Jong Un was exposed on Tuesday, as American journalists were abruptly evicted from a Hanoi hotel housing the North Korean leader and key details of the meeting remained a mystery. The White House has set low ambitions for Thursday’s talks, organized in a matter of weeks after Trump announced ...

Bloomberg A top former Russian cybersecurity officer was jailed for 22 years after a court convicted him of treason for alleged links to US intelligence. Moscow District Military Court ordered that Sergei Mikhailov, who worked in the Federal Security Service’s information-security division, serve his sentence in a high-security prison. Ruslan Stoyanov, a manager at Kaspersky Lab cybersecurity company, was also ...

Bloomberg Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari held the edge in early election results that the main opposition party claimed were being manipulated following a vote marred by delays and at least 39 deaths. After results from 11 of Nigeria’s 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory, Buhari led his main challenger, Atiku Abubakar, by a 51 percent to 46 percent margin, ...

Bloomberg India said its fighter jets destroyed a major terrorist camp in Pakistan in the worst escalation between the nuclear-armed rivals since 2001, in an incident that Islamabad has described as a “grave aggression.” More than 300 people were killed in the air strikes at the camp belonging to terrorist group Jaish-e-Mohammed that has trained suicide bombers, according to an ...

Bloomberg President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un might declare a formal end to the Korean War during their summit this week, South Korea said, as the US leader played down the prospects of giving Pyongyang sanctions relief. The two leaders could reach an agreement on how to resolve the 1950-53 conflict as part of their meeting scheduled ...

Bloomberg House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff vowed to subpoena Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation report, and sue President Donald Trump’s administration for the underlying evidence if necessary to make it public. “Absolutely, we are going to get to the bottom of this,’’ Schiff of California said on ABC’s “This Week” when asked whether he’s prepared to take the ...

Bloomberg There was blood, smoke, smashed glass and tear gas. But a day of violence left Venezuela where it was before: Nothing changed on the ground. No one seems to be winning. And the nation is still hungry, scared and wondering what comes next. “Honestly, I’m disappointed,” said Luis Antonio Cequera, 52, a water vendor in the border town of ...

Bloomberg Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari won the first two of 36 states for which results were being announced by the election commission in a general election that was partly marred by delays, technical glitches and sporadic violence. Buhari, 76, defeated his main challenger, Atiku Abubakar, in Ekiti state by a 58 percent to 40 percent margin, the Independent National Electoral ...

Bloomberg Buying time is what Theresa May does best. When she faced a vote to oust her as prime minister last December, she promised her critics she would quit as leader before the next election in 2022. That fired the starting pistol on a contest to choose a successor, with rivals already putting their campaign preparations in place. Some ministers ...

Bloomberg After days of preparation, the trucks rolled out. They bore beans, rice, sugar, salt and the possibility that Venezuela’s army would desert autocratic President Nicolas Maduro and the moribund nation might begin its revival. Instead, there came violent action but little motion. Maduro avoided a bloodbath despite a massive border face-off between protesters and soldiers. His army didn’t desert ...