Politics

Bloomberg Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari promised to end a deadly insurgency by Boko Haram militants, renewing a pledge he made ahead of his 2015 election as he seeks a second term. “There has been a steady improvement in the security situation in the northeast,” Buhari said Monday in a TV broadcast marking Nigeria’s 58th anniversary of independence from British rule. ...

Bloomberg An opponent of the construction of a new US Marine base on the southern Japanese island of Okinawa won election as governor, beating a candidate backed by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s ruling coalition. Denny Tamaki—the son of a US serviceman and a Japanese mother—claimed victory over Atsushi Sakima in the closely watched race. Tamaki opposes a government plan ...

Bloomberg Separatist campaigners targeted Catalonia’s transportation networks in protests held to mark the anniversary of an illegal independence referendum held a year ago. Protesters blocked the AP-7 highway at Vandellos, a town 140 kilometers (87 miles) south of the regional capital Barcelona, the Catalan Traffic Service said on its Twitter account Monday. The high speed train service from Figueres to ...

Bloomberg Prime Minister Theresa May faces the battle of her political life to retain control of the governing Conservative Party as top Tory politicians undermined her leadership. After arch rival Boris Johnson went for the jugular, Chancellor Philip Hammond swept in to defend her in an increasingly chaotic political scene. May arrived at her party’s annual conference in Birmingham needing ...

Bloomberg Pyongyang won’t dismantle its nuclear weapons until it has “sufficient trust” with the US, North Korea’s top diplomat told the United Nations General Assembly, pressuring the Trump administration to drop its “coercive methods” such as sanctions. The remarks by North Korea Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho underscored lingering friction between the nations amid signs their diplomats have resumed talks ...

Bloomberg The death toll from a 7.5 magnitude earthquake and tsunami that hit Indonesia’s island of Sulawesi climbed to more than 800, with casualties expected to reach into the thousands as authorities try to reach those trapped under collapsed buildings. Local media reports quoted Vice President Muhammad Jusuf Kalla as saying that he expected the toll to grow as he ...

Bloomberg With Brazil heading into a two-horse presidential race between left and right, centrist candidates are losing their allies and millions of moderate voters are frustrated and at a loss as to whom to support. Former Sao Paulo Mayor Fernando Haddad of the leftist Workers’ Party over the past fortnight has more than doubled his support and is closing in ...

Bloomberg Theresa May is battling to assert her authority as UK prime minister after a disastrous start to her party’s annual conference threatened to explode into a full-blown leadership crisis. Before the event had even begun, May found herself struggling to contain a row over a massive data breach and to fend off a brazen challenge over Brexit from her ...

Bloomberg Seven key opposition leaders in the Democratic Republic of Congo pledged unity and promised to back a single candidate against President Joseph Kabila’s chosen successor in December’s election. Such an outcome would increase the chances of Kabila’s opponents defeating Emmanuel Ramazani Shadary, a former interior minister under European Union sanctions for his role in human rights abuses. The December ...

Bloomberg Almost 200 Congressional Democrats got a go-ahead from a judge to pursue a lawsuit claiming that Donald Trump is violating a Constitutional ban on receiving benefits from foreign governments without their permission while he’s president. US District Judge Emmet Sullivan in Washington denied a Justice Department request to dismiss the lawsuit, filed last year by Connecticut’s Richard Blumenthal and ...