Politics

Bloomberg North Korea stepped up its attack on US-led sanctions, threatening to resume its nuclear program if the measures aren’t lifted. The Foreign Ministry’s Institute for American Studies said it could revive its policy of economic construction and nuclear development if sanctions continue. The US “had better stop the self-destructive act of putting pressure” on the North, the Korean Central ...

Bloomberg President Donald Trump said that soldiers sent to fortify the US border with Mexico won’t shoot migrants if they throw rocks at Americans, a reversal from remarks he made a day earlier. Migrants trying to enter the US will instead be quickly arrested if they’re violent, he said as he departed the White House for a campaign rally in ...

Bloomberg President Donald Trump said the US remains open to reaching a comprehensive deal with Iran that blocks its nuclear-weapons programme, just days before sanctions on the country’s energy and shipping sectors kick back in. “Our objective is to force the regime into a clear choice,” Trump said in a statement released by the White House on Friday evening, referencing ...

Bloomberg A cloak of secrecy surrounds the negotiations on the UK’s exit from the European Union. Neither side has reported in any detail what’s going on behind closed doors in Brussels since Prime Minister Theresa May updated Parliament on October 22. But the lack of public comment doesn’t mean nothing’s happening. British and European negotiators are locked away trying to ...

Bloomberg The US almost doubled its pledge for the financial support of a West African force that began deploying last year to fight a surge in militant attacks. Assistance to the force that’s known as G5 Sahel will now total $111 million, from an initial pledge of $60 million made in October 2017, Samantha Reho, a spokeswoman for the US ...

Bloomberg The US and South Korea have spent almost seven decades honing their preparedness for war. Now fears are growing among the alliance’s proponents that extended peace talks are eroding that advantage. Defense chiefs from the two nations will gather for an annual meeting in Washington on Wednesday facing a radically changed landscape after President Donald Trump’s decision to restart ...

Bloomberg Voters in the Democratic Republic of Congo prefer two opposition candidates over the ruling party’s entrant in presidential elections set to take place in December, according to an opinion poll. More than a third of the electorate back Union for Democracy and Social Progress leader Felix Tshisekedi in the vote, while 17 percent favor Union for the Congolese Nation ...

Bloomberg South Sudan’s main rebel leader committed to the latest deal to end a half decade of bloody civil war as he returned to the capital for the first time since fleeing violence more than two years ago. Former Vice President Riek Machar temporarily returned to Juba on Wednesday to take part in celebrations for a so-called “final, final” peace ...

Bloomberg So much for the “Kavanaugh Bump.” Republicans now fear some of their voters are losing enthusiasm a week away from midterm elections that will determine control of Congress. Outrage amid the Republican electorate over Democrats’ treatment of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination has dissipated, Trump aides and Republican pollsters say. After last week’s mail-bomb scare and synagogue shooting, ...

Bloomberg Angela Merkel’s favoured successor to head her governing party is running into stiff competition in a race that will shape the German chancellor’s legacy. Her old nemesis Friedrich Merz is now a contender for the Christian Democratic Union’s chairmanship, raising the possibility that for the first time ever the leader of the Europe’s dominant economy will come from the ...