Politics

Bloomberg The double-whammy of one House committee referring Donald Trump for criminal prosecution and another debating release of his tax returns adds to an accumulation of political blows that some Republican strategists say will further hobble the former president’s already troubled bid for another run at the White House. The House panel investigating the January 6 Capitol attack made four ...

Bloomberg Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy made a surprise visit to Bakhmut, a city hailed by his deputy defense minister as “our eastern fortress” amid heavy fighting over the past few weeks. As the president handed awards to servicemen, Ukraine’s government said it had reached a deal with Elon Musk’s Space Exploration Technologies Corp to get thousands more Starlink antennas to ...

Bloomberg Explosions were heard on Monday in Kyiv as the city government said drones further damaged the capital’s critical infrastructure. That followed a warning by an adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy that Russia could sharply escalate the war in a winter offensive driven by mass infantry and that Western allies needed to be prepared. UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak ...

Bloomberg North Korea said it carried out the final tests of a military spy satellite, publishing a pair of black-and-white overhead images of South Korea’s capital region in an attempt to show the device worked. The country announced the breakthrough via state media, a day after South Korea said its rival lobbed at least two suspected medium-range ballistic missiles through ...

  Bloomberg Thailand’s Navy is searching for 31 officers stranded at sea after a vessel sank on Monday during a storm. As of noon local time on Monday, 75 officers have been rescued out of 106 on board the HTMS Sukhothai corvette, which sunk 37 kilometers (20 nautical miles) offshore in Prachuap Khiri Khan province, according to a navy tweet ...

Bloomberg Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim won a confidence vote in parliament, as he looks to prove the coalition he put together after last month’s election can govern effectively following years of political instability. Anwar won the support of the majority of lawmakers in a voice vote, according to Speaker Johari Abdul. The prime minister’s choice for parliamentary speaker earlier ...

  Bloomberg Cyril Ramaphosa comfortably won re-election as head of South Africa’s governing party just weeks after a scandal threatened to derail his political career, and now faces an uphill battle to rebuild its flagging support heading into a national vote in 2024. Rampahosa allies also won most of the African National Congress’s (ANC) other six top party positions, giving ...

  Bloomberg The UK government’s flagship immigration policy plan to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda is lawful, London judges ruled. The plan, which involves flying asylum seekers arriving in Britain some 4,000 miles (6,437.4 kilometres) to the African nation to be processed according to Rwandan laws, spurred several legal challenges from human rights campaigners. The government has consistently backed the ...

Bloomberg North Korea fired at least two suspected medium-range ballistic missiles from near a site that a few days ago it tested a new solid-fuel rocket engine that could enhance its ability to launch quick-strike, longer-range missiles for delivering nuclear warheads. Two medium-range ballistic missiles were launched from the Tongchang county area, South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said. Japan’s ...

Bloomberg Donald Trump awaits the most serious blow yet from House lawmakers investigating the January 6 Capitol attack — a possible recommendation that he be prosecuted just as he’s launching a comeback bid for the White House. The committee is poised to decide on Monday whether to refer Trump and several advisers to the Justice Department for criminal charges for ...