Politics

Bloomberg The UK and the European Union are preparing for a special summit to sign the Brexit deal in November and the meeting could be announced within days, according to people familiar with the matter. While negotiators still need to resolve key disagreements, the EU is getting ready to schedule a one-off gathering in mid-November so leaders can formally agree ...

Bloomberg Tripoli’s international airport was closed and flights rerouted after a series of overnight rocket attacks rendered all but meaningless a ceasefire announced by the United Nations days earlier. Inbound flights were being sent to the city of Misrata, Libyan television reported, noting that there were no reports of injuries from the attacks. The Maitiga International Airport’s Facebook page said ...

Bloomberg Chinese President Xi Jinping and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin pledged to bolster ties as Moscow stages its biggest military exercises since the height of the Cold War with Chinese participation. Both face pressure from the administration of US President Donald Trump. “We have a relationship of trust in the sphere of politics, security and defense,” Putin told Xi ...

Bloomberg German Chancellor Angela Merkel can’t seem to escape the political fallout from her open-borders refugee policy. Unresolved tension over migration in her government may come to a head again this week in a clash between the chancellor and her domestic intelligence chief, who defied Merkel by suggesting that a video of far-right unrest in eastern Germany that she described ...

Bloomberg The White House delivered a whipsaw message to North Korea, announcing it’s ready to start planning a second meeting with Kim Jong-un just hours after President Donald Trump’s top national security adviser said nuclear talks were stalled. Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told reporters that Trump had received “a very warm, very positive letter” from Kim seeking a follow-up ...

Bloomberg Sweden’s political establishment contained a nationalist surge. Now it may need to throw away the old rules to form a viable government. Both of Sweden’s traditional blocs, one led by the Social Democrats and one by the conservative Moderates, claimed victory after Sunday’s election that’s still too close to call. The nationalist Sweden Democrats surged to about 17.6 percent, ...

Bloomberg European lawmakers will make final arguments on whether Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s “illiberal” government should be subject to the European Union’s strictest sanctions for threatening democracy and the rule-of-law in the world’s largest trading bloc. The 751-member European Parliament has never before voted to trigger Article 7 of the EU treaty against a member state, which could ultimately ...

Bloomberg Palestinian leaders confirmed they’d been informed by the Trump administration that it plans to shut the Palestinian mission in Washington, condemning the move as proof the US is disbanding international efforts towards a peace deal with Israel. The announcement of the closure, earlier reported by the Wall Street Journal citing unidentified White House officials, was expected to be made ...

Bloomberg Russian President Vladimir Putin got a taste of public anger at his plans to increase the pension age as voters turned on the ruling party in regional elections and hundreds were arrested at protests against the reform. United Russia’s candidates for governor in four regions, mostly in the country’s east, were forced into runoffs after failing to win majorities ...

Bloomberg For President Donald Trump, the nightmare scenario if Democrats win control of the US House would be the death of his legislative agenda, aggressive investigations of his inner circle, and potential impeachment. For Democratic leaders, the vision they’re presenting is far tamer: a limited three-prong agenda of healthcare legislation aimed at cutting costs and drug prices, an infrastructure spending ...