Politics

Bloomberg Gabonese authorities said they put down an attempted coup by a group of mutineering soldiers who’d seized control of the national broadcaster and vowed to “save a democracy in danger.” Communication Minister Guy-Bertrand Mapangou told Radio France Internationale that order had been restored, and the capital, Libreville, was largely quiet. His statement came hours after Ondo Obiang Kelly, an ...

Bloomberg Lawmakers called on Theresa May to rule out a no-deal Brexit, stepping up a campaign against an outcome they say threatens the livelihoods of voters. “Manufacturing plants employ thousands of our constituents and their jobs will be put at immediate risk if the United Kingdom leaves the European Union with no deal,” some 209 lawmakers from both May’s Conservatives ...

Bloomberg The Democratic Republic of Congo delayed the release of provisional results from last week’s presidential election as criticism of the country’s handling of the vote grew. Congolese went to the polls on December 30 to find a successor to President Joseph Kabila, who’s ruled since 2001, in an election that was already two years overdue. The central African nation ...

Bloomberg Theresa May’s aides are believed to be planning to make parliament’s approval of her Brexit deal conditional on Brussels providing further concessions, specifically on the thorny issue of the Irish backstop, the Telegraph reported. The move is intended to limit opposition and gain more time for negotiations to continue with the EU, the newspaper said. The vote, penciled in ...

Bloomberg South Africa’s ruling African National Congress (ANC) appears on track to dominate its sixth straight national election in May as it increasingly wins back supporters alienated by former President Jacob Zuma’s scandal-marred rule, an opinion poll shows. Sixty-one percent of 3,571 adults interviewed face-to-face by research company Ipsos between October 23 and December 4 last year said they’d vote ...

Bloomberg US forces will remain in northeastern Syria until Turkey agrees not to go after the Kurds, National Security Adviser John Bolton said on Sunday, clarifying that President Donald Trump is committed to protecting opposition allies. “That’s what the president said, the ones that fought with us,” Bolton said, ahead of a meeting this week in Turkey with President Recep ...

Bloomberg France’s Yellow Vest movement staged mostly peaceful anti-government rallies on January 5 for the eighth weekend in a row but the protests ended with a small group smashing down the entrance to the ministry of the government spokesman. French television showed thousands marching along the Seine in Paris to gather in front of the National Assembly as well as ...

Bloomberg Hungarian anti-government demonstrations showed no sign of abating after almost a month of rallies that have snowballed from workers’ demands to scrap a law on more overtime hours to a call for the end of Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s illiberal rule. After a holiday lull, thousands of people gathered in Budapest to resume the most sustained protest wave against ...

Bloomberg President Donald Trump said he could declare a national emergency to circumvent Congress and build a wall along the US border with Mexico, shortly after threatening Democrats that he’s prepared to keep part of the government shut down for a year or longer if his demands aren’t met. “Absolutely we can call a national emergency because of the security ...

Bloomberg Russia’s Foreign Ministry said the FBI arrested a Russian citizen in the Northern Mariana Islands, a Pacific territory overseen by the US, then took him to Florida. US court documents show the individual indicted on charges related to the export of defense items. Russia’s Embassy in Washington learned of the detention of Dmitry Makarenko from his relatives, the ministry ...