Politics

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 ...

Bloomberg Sweden may face weeks or even months of political gridlock after an inconclusive election result left the biggest Scandinavian economy without a clear candidate to form a government. Neither the Social Democrat-led coalition of Prime Minister Stefan Lofven nor the opposition Alliance bloc won enough votes to form majority governments, as a nationalist group that has talked of dragging ...

Bloomberg Libyan security forces overcame gunmen who attacked the state oil company’s headquarters as militias and government-backed forces clashed in the North African country’s capital. “A number of blasts” rocked National Oil Corp. headquarters in Tripoli, and several people were killed and injured, NOC Chairman Mustafa Sanalla told Libya Channel TV after he was evacuated from the building. Some of ...

Bloomberg Kim Jong-un presided over a tempered military parade on Sunday, in the latest sign that he wants to revive stalled nuclear talks with the US as he pushes for North Korea to rejoin the international community. Kim marked the 70th anniversary of his grandfather’s regime without showing off provocative hardware such as long-range ballistic missiles that would likely have ...

Bloomberg A turbulent Swedish election campaign came to an end with little sign of compromise ahead as the establishment parties pleaded with voters to beat back an ascendant nationalist movement. The center-right and center-left blocs were in a virtual tie with voting starting on Sunday as the conservative-led opposition gained ground in recent days. But the blocs will be far ...

Bloomberg Boris Johnson opened a fresh attack on Prime Minister Theresa May, calling her approach to taking the UK out of the European Union “a humiliation” for the nation. The former foreign secretary wrote an article for the Mail on Sunday newspaper to savage her policy of keeping Britain closely tied to EU trade rules after Brexit. “Under the Chequers ...

Bloomberg Italians may feel they’ve seen this story before as the country’s top politician lashes out against magistrates who have put him under investigation and blocked his party’s finances. But this time it isn’t Silvio Berlusconi. Deputy Premier and League leader Matteo Salvini has launched a series of attacks on prosecutors who “haven’t been elected by anyone” after being notified ...

Bloomberg South Africa’s former President Jacob Zuma and other top figures in the ruling African National Congress (ANC) met secretly this week to discuss a strategy to remove his successor Cyril Ramaphosa, the Sunday Times newspaper reported, without citing anyone. Zuma held talks in Durban on Thursday with party allies, including ANC Secretary General Ace Magashule and former premier of ...

Bloomberg Barack Obama delivered a blunt rebuke of President Donald Trump in the opening salvo of the former president’s campaign to bolster Democrats in the midterm congressional elections. The former president warned of dire consequences if US voters stand on the sidelines in November’s midterm election, saying the nation is living through “dangerous times.” “This is one of those pivotal ...