Politics

Bloomberg Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said the government will keep pursuing its expansionary economic goals and vowed the populist coalition would complete its full five-year term. “The budget starts with a clearly expansionary signal, and maintains that even after the changes made following the negotiations with Brussels,” Conte told Italian daily La Stampa in an interview. The government initially ...

Bloomberg Theresa May urged Britons to abandon the Leave-Remain split that has beset the country since the Brexit referendum in 2016. After 2 1/2 years of division, it’s time to “put aside our differences and focus on what really matters,” the UK premier wrote in a letter to readers of the Daily Express newspaper. In a missive also aimed at ...

Bloomberg Donald Trump is coming off one of his roughest weeks as president, at least in his critics’ eyes — instigating a government shutdown fight, provoking his defense chief’s resignation, abruptly pulling US troops from two global hotspots, and even thinking about firing the head of the US central bank. Yet, as hard as it is for the outside world ...

Bloomberg The death toll from a tsunami triggered by suspected volcanic activity near the Sunda Strait in Indonesia has topped 200 as rescuers continue to search for dozens missing in the tourist region. More than 220 people, mostly tourists, are confirmed dead, at least 843 injured and dozens are missing in the two provinces hit by waves late on Saturday, ...

Bloomberg The US government shutdown has entered a second day. It’s likely to last at least until late in the week, and maybe into January, as the White House and Democrats remain at an impasse over President Donald Trump’s demand for billions of dollars in border wall funding. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said the Senate would adjourn for regular ...

Bloomberg UK Prime Minister Theresa May’s allies are plotting to keep her in Downing Street for at least another two years, the Sunday Times reported, citing a senior cabinet minister it didn’t name. The plans being floated would see May hang on to power until the autumn of 2021 when she would hand over to a new Conservative leader, according ...

Bloomberg Protests led by the grassroots Yellow Vest movement abated across France on December 22, a signal that a call to mobilise for a sixth straight weekend failed to maintain the momentum. An estimated 23,800 protested nationwide, down from 33,500 at the same time a week ago, Agence France Presse (AFP) reported, citing the interior ministry. Authorities stopped 109 people ...

Bloomberg A new legal filing appears to ask the US Supreme Court to intervene for the first time in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into the 2016 election. The document, which is under seal, stems from a December 18 federal appeals court ruling that required an unidentified company, owned by an unidentified foreign country, to turn over information to a ...

Bloomberg Parts of the US government began shutting down on Saturday for the third time this year after a bipartisan spending deal collapsed over President Donald Trump’s demands for more money to build a wall along the US-Mexico border. Trump scuttled an agreement that would have kept the government open until February after coming under heavy criticism from conservative talk ...

Bloomberg Barcelona is providing the world with images of political tension and tribal conflict. Again. Fourteen months after capital of Spain’s Catalonia region grabbed the world’s attention during the failed attempt to declare independence, pro-separatism protesters clashed with police. It came just as Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez was holding a cabinet meeting there as part of his policy to repair ...