Politics

Bloomberg A lawyer for the woman who accuses Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of an assault sought another day to agree on conditions for her testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee in a high-stakes hearing and assailed panel Republicans over “aggressive and artificial deadlines”. Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley threatened that his panel would vote on Kavanaugh’s nomination on Monday unless ...

Bloomberg Kim Jong-un looks like he did just enough on Wednesday to get stalled talks with US President Donald Trump back on track, without coming close to giving up North Korea’s nuclear weapons. During a second day of meetings with Moon Jae-in, the first South Korean leader to visit Pyongyang in 11 years, Kim agreed to dismantle a key missile ...

Bloomberg A Pakistani High Court suspended former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s 10-year jail sentence on Wednesday, a judgement that may revive his political career after his party was ousted from power in July’s national election. The two-member panel of judges, including Justice Athar Minallah and Justice Miangul Hassan Aurangzeb, also suspended graft convictions against Sharif’s daughter, Maryam, and her spouse ...

Bloomberg Malaysia’s former premier Najib Razak will face new charges in a case linked to troubled state fund 1MDB, following earlier allegations of money laundering and corruption. The expected allegations against Najib are part of a case linked to 2.6 billion ringgit of funds transferred to his personal account, the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission said in a statement, after detaining him ...

Bloomberg The UK and the European Union signalled their readiness to work to break the deadlock in Brexit talks as Prime Minister Theresa May prepared for a crucial summit aiming to persuade EU leaders to back her plans. The bloc’s chief Brexit negotiator, Michel Barnier, repeated his offer to re-write his blueprint for avoiding a hard border between the UK ...

Bloomberg Pro-government forces in South Sudan went on a weeks-long rampage of “staggering brutality” in opposition-controlled areas and killing civilians and destroying their food supplies even after warring sides agreed a cease-fire, Amnesty International said. Soldiers and allied militias were given “free rein” to commit atrocities in the country’s north between mid-April and early July, the London-based group said on ...

Bloomberg Steve Bannon helped upend the political order in the US before falling out with President Donald Trump. Now he’s looking to recreate his former glories in Europe. Bannon is planning a roadshow across half a dozen European countries this week to organise a loose alliance of populist leaders and parties in a bid to gain a bigger foothold for ...

Bloomberg Russia warned angrily it may respond to “hostile” actions by Israel after one of its military reconnaissance planes was downed mistakenly by Syrian forces fighting off an attack by Israeli warplanes. The spike in tensions came a day after Russia called off a campaign against the last major opposition-held area in Syria, preventing for now an escalation in the ...

Bloomberg Arab countries will step in to help the UN agency serving Palestinian refugees after the US’s decision to cut off funding, Egypt’s foreign minister said, as President Donald Trump’s allies seek to contain the fallout of his attempt to re-write the rules that have underpinned decades of peace talks. The Trump administration said last month it would not make ...

Bloomberg North Korean leader Kim Jong-un greeted South Korean President Moon Jae-in in an elaborate welcoming ceremony as he arrived at Pyongyang airport on Tuesday for a landmark visit to salvage stalled nuclear talks between the regime and the US. Thousands of North Korean men and women waved flowers and flags as Kim and Moon shared smiles and handshakes on ...