Politics

Bloomberg President Donald Trump has thrust the issue of illegal immigration back to the fore of his political rallies, gambling that his combative rhetoric can galvanize his Republican base ahead of next month’s pivotal midterm elections. But so far there’s scant evidence the divisive issue that helped carry him to victory in 2016 will do the same for his party ...

Bloomberg President Donald Trump said he plans to pull out of a major arms control treaty with Russia, claiming the Kremlin breached the accord on intermediate-range nuclear weapons. “We’re not going to let them violate a nuclear agreement,” Trump said on Saturday after a campaign rally in Elko, Nevada. “We’re going to terminate the agreement.” The US has been warning ...

Bloomberg Poland is voting in local elections that will test the conservative ruling party’s grip on public opinion as it rends the country away from its European Union allies. The nation of 38 million is ground zero in the battle between populist leaders rebelling against the bloc’s liberal, multicultural norms and mainstream forces who say they’ve done more than any ...

Bloomberg People from across the UK gathered on a sunny afternoon in London to take part in what may be the biggest public protest over Brexit since the referendum in 2016. The march, which organizers estimated drew 700,000 people to west London’s Park Lane, was called by People’s Vote, a group that’s campaigning for the public to have a say ...

Bloomberg Italy’s two populist parties, rivals and allies in the governing coalition, face off in regional elections in the small northern region of Trentino-Alto Adige as they seek an edge in their national power struggle. As voters in the semi-autonomous, largely German-speaking provinces of Trento and Bolzano, head to the polls Sunday, the anti-establishment Five Star Movement and the anti-immigration, ...

Bloomberg The US charged a Russian woman with conspiring to interfere in both the 2016 and 2018 elections, marking the first criminal charges related to next month’s congressional midterm vote. Elena Alekseevna Khusy-aynova of St. Petersburg, allegedly served as the chief accountant for an operation known as “Project Lakhta,” the Justice Department said in a statement. The department identified the ...

Bloomberg Defense chiefs from the US and China agreed in principle to guidelines on encounters between warplanes, in the latest bid by Pacific nations to keep increased military activity from escalating into conflict. US Secretary of Defense James Mattis and seven other regional military chiefs, including China’s General Wei Fenghe, gave broad endorsement to the rules in Singapore on Saturday, ...

Bloomberg Afghans are voting on Saturday in long-delayed parliamentary elections that have been marred by a spate of high-profile Taliban attacks and intimidation. Afghan President Ashraf Ghani kicked off elections at 7 a.m local time by casting his ballot even as polling in some other booths in the country’s capital, Kabul, was delayed by hours due to malfunctioning biometric devices ...

Bloomberg President Tsai Ing-wen is coming under increased pressure from her allies at home to push harder for Taiwan’s formal independence even as China keeps up its unrelenting campaign to bring the island under its control. Thousands of people gathered outside the headquarters of Tsai’s Democratic Progressive Party in Taipei on Saturday. Unhappy with the president’s moderate stance on Taiwan’s ...

Bloomberg Italian Deputy Premiers Matteo Salvini and Luigi Di Maio are trying to preserve a five-month-old alliance after their first serious dispute, criticism of their budget from the European Union and a downgrade by Moody’s Investors Service brought tensions to a boiling point. “The government will keep going despite the rating agencies, European commissioners and some internal misunderstandings,” Salvini said ...