Politics

Bloomberg Aides for UK Prime Minister Theresa May have begun contingency planning for a possible snap election in November, the Sunday Times reported. Two senior members of her political operation began “war gaming” an autumn vote in a bid to win public backing for a new Brexit plan. One person in her inner circle told cabinet members she’ll probably stand ...

Bloomberg President Donald Trump is willing to meet with Iran’s Hassan Rouhani when world leaders gather at the United Nations this week, said the top US diplomat, who also said that Russia hasn’t been helpful to US foreign policy objectives. “He’s happy to talk with folks at any time,” US Secretary of State Michael Pompeo said in a pre-recorded interview ...

Bloomberg The US may deny green cards to immigrants who’ve legally used or seem likely to use a range of public benefits, including food assistance or housing vouchers, under new rules announced by the Trump administration on Saturday. The proposal, “Inadmissibility on Public Charge Grounds,” will be posted in the Federal Register in the coming weeks and subject to a ...

Bloomberg All signs point to Prime Minister Stefan Lofven losing the first round in his battle to remain in power as Sweden seats its new parliament. The 349-person legislature reconvenes on Monday two weeks after an election that saw the nationalist Sweden Democrats grab 62 seats and Lofven’s coalition hang on to a one-seat lead over the center-right Alliance opposition. ...

Bloomberg Vietnam has its first female president with the appointment of Vice President Nguyen Thi Ngoc Thinh after Tran Dai Quang died on Friday from a serious illness. Thinh will be the acting president until the National Assembly elects a new leader, according to a statement on the government website, which cited parliament chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan. Thinh has ...

Bloomberg Gunmen attacked a military parade in Iran’s southern city of Ahvaz on Saturday, killing at least 29 people and injuring 53, state-run Islamic Republic News Agency reported on its website, citing an “informed source” it didn’t identify. Members of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards and civilians, including a child and a journalist, were among those killed, the semi-official Tasnim news agency ...

Bloomberg China’s military cooperation with Russia is “normal,” in accordance with international law, and the US has no right to intervene, Wu Qian, a spokesman for the Ministry of National Defense, said on Saturday in response to Washington’s sanctions on its military agency. China urges the US to immediately correct its mistakes and withdraw the so-called sanctions, otherwise it must ...

Bloomberg President Donald Trump vowed to rid the Justice Department and FBI of “bad” people, echoing previous criticism he’s made that the law enforcement agencies he controls are tainted by political bias. “Just look at what is now being exposed in our Department of Justice and FBI,” Trump said at a rally in Springfield, Missouri. He told his audience that ...

Bloomberg British Prime Minister Theresa May struck back at the European Union for bluntly dismissing her Brexit plan with a speech designed to shore up her increasingly precarious position at home. May told EU leaders that she wouldn’t back down and demanded they show “respect” to her country during talks. Rather than giving her a boost, a summit of EU ...

Bloomberg Another week, another coalition crisis for Angela Merkel. Just days after Germany’s chancellor said her government had a deal to remove the domestic intelligence chief over his stance on anti-migrant protests, the accord fell apart Friday in a renewed sign of political fragility in Europe’s biggest economy. Merkel said she’ll find a new solution this weekend. The case of ...