Politics

Bloomberg The US and South Korea are discussing “corresponding measures” to reward North Korea’s steps towards denuclearisation, South Korea’s foreign minister said, as President Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un prepare for a possible second summit. Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha told a news conference in Seoul that the allies were reviewing various packages of incentives that Washington could bring to the ...

Bloomberg China is likely developing a long-range bomber capable of delivering nuclear weapons and a space-based early warning system it could use to more quickly respond to an attack, according to a new report from the US Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA). The development of the bomber, when combined with China’s land-based nuclear weapons programme and a deployed submarine with intercontinental ...

Bloomberg The attack on an upmarket hotel complex in Kenya’s capital that claimed at least 14 lives may impact the East African nation’s key tourism industry, which was recovering from a wave of extremist assaults earlier this decade. Al-Qaeda-linked militants in Somalia have claimed responsibility for the terror attack on 14 Riverside in Nairobi, their first significant assault in Kenya ...

Bloomberg Venezuela’s opposition-dominated National Assembly is making a concerted effort to unseat autocratic President Nicolas Maduro, invoking constitutional measures that would seat an acting chief executive and offering blanket amnesty to military and government officials who help in bringing down the regime. In a matter of a week, Venezuela’s beaten down and divided opposition has rallied around a 35-year-old lawmaker, ...

Bloomberg Secretary of State Michael Pompeo arrived in the Middle East a week ago on a mission to prove the Trump administration can be a reliable partner in tackling the region’s thorniest problems. He returns having failed to stifle doubts that have dogged the US for years. With stops in eight countries in eight days, Pompeo sought to hammer home ...

Bloomberg South Korea dropped a reference to North Korea as its “enemy” in a Defense Ministry white paper for the first time since 2010, reflecting warming ties between the neighbours still technically at war. In a report released on Tuesday, the ministry said that North Korea’s weapons of mass destruction remained a threat to “peace and security on the Korean ...

Bloomberg The opposition leader who delivered the biggest blow to Narendra Modi’s ruling party in five years has vowed to replicate recent state-level victories in India’s upcoming general poll. India’s main opposition Congress party scored its biggest win yet against Modi when it turfed his Bharatiya Janata Party from three state governments in December elections. Congress lawmaker and Wharton alumni ...

Bloomberg British and European Union diplomats are now working on the assumption that the UK will leave the bloc later than the planned exit date of March 29 if PM Theresa May loses Tuesday’s Brexit deal vote in Parliament. Officials dealing with Brexit for the UK and EU are separately preparing for the possibility, even though there have been no ...

Bloomberg Al-Qaeda-linked militants said they were behind an ongoing attack on an upmarket hotel and office complex in Kenya’s capital that local media report claimed at least three lives. Gunmen stormed the complex at 14 Riverside Drive in Nairobi, which houses a Dusit Hotels & Resorts Co outlet, restaurants, banking facilities and offices, police Inspector-General Joseph Boinnet said in a ...

Bloomberg Kim Jong-un told the world this month that North Korea took steps to stop making nuclear weapons in 2018, a shift from his earlier public statements. The evidence shows production has continued, and expanded. Satellite-imagery analysis and leaked American intelligence suggest North Korea has churned out rockets and warheads as quickly as ever in the year since Kim halted ...