Politics

Bloomberg Administration officials are planning for President Donald Trump’s second summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un to take place in Vietnam, said people familiar with the plans. The White House announced that Trump would meet Kim in late February, following a 90-minute meeting between the president and Kim Yong Chol, one of the North Korean leader’s top aides. Kim ...

Bloomberg President Donald Trump made his first substantive offer of the government shutdown aimed at peeling off moderate Democrats and shifting blame with an American public that so far overwhelmingly holds him responsible for the month-long impasse. Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi rejected the proposal, hours before Trump outlined it in a White House speech to the nation. Trump said ...

Bloomberg Citizens in the southern Philippines will vote on Monday on a proposal to give the region greater autonomy, a move the central government says will help end decades of violent conflict. More than 2.8 million residents of the Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao are expected to vote on a law creating an expanded region called Bangsamoro, which provides more ...

Bloomberg Thousands of Greeks marched through the streets of Athens on Sunday to protest a name deal with the neighbouring Republic of Macedonia, as Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras steels himself for another showdown in parliament over the accord. People gathered in the main Syntagma square opposite parliament, a site familiar to global television viewers for scenes of violent clashes in ...

Bloomberg US President Donald Trump agreed to hold a second summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un at the end of February. What the two leaders hope to achieve remains a mystery. The summit announcement came after a 90-minute White House meeting between Trump and Kim Yong Chol, one of the North Korean leader’s top aides. They discussed “denucleariaation and ...

Bloomberg A pipeline explosion north of Mexico City killed at least 66 people, confronting President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador with the biggest crisis since he took office pledging to crack down on graft and fuel theft. Petroleos Mexicanos said its specialists and local officials were working to deal with a fire caused by the illegal tap on the gasoline line ...

Bloomberg President Donald Trump promised a “major announcement” on the government shutdown as he and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi headed into a long holiday weekend with no sign their increasingly acrimonious standoff is any closer to an end. The president plans to renew his demand for a wall on the US border with Mexico, but also offer incentives for congressional ...

Bloomberg Hungarian labour unions are staging nationwide protests and threatening the first general strike since the end of communism to pressure Prime Minister Viktor Orban into repealing a controversial new law on overtime. Rallies were planned in Budapest and more than a dozen other cities on Saturday against what critics have dubbed the “slave law”, which allows companies to ask ...

Bloomberg The wife of missing ex-Interpol Chief Meng Hongwei has applied for asylum in France because she is scared for her life, Reuters reported, citing her lawyer. Grace Meng was followed by strangers, received suspicious phone calls and had her car license plates photographed by mysterious people, according to the report, which cited an interview she did with France Info’s ...

Bloomberg The UK stands at its most dangerous crossroads in decades after Parliament emphatically rejected Theresa May’s Brexit deal and left her facing an uncomfortable vote to oust her government. The humiliating defeat on Tuesday evening, the biggest for any government in modern history, leaves May’s divorce agreement with the European Union all but dead and opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn ...