Politics

Bloomberg South Korean President Moon Jae-in will send both his national security adviser and top spy as special envoys on a one-day mission to Pyongyang on Wednesday ahead of a possible inter-Korean summit this month. President Moon named a five-member delegation to North Korea on Sunday, led by National Security Office chief Chung Eui-yong, Yonhap News Agency cited Blue House ...

Bloomberg Nearly 700,000 undocumented immigrants brought to the US as children won another ruling preserving their protection from deportation, though the Texas judge who sided with them cast serious doubt on the legality of the so-called Dreamer programme. US District Judge Andrew Hanen in the border town of Brownsville ruled that Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton waited too long to ...

Bloomberg George Papadopoulos, a foreign policy adviser to Donald Trump’s presidential campaign and one of the first people charged in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation of Russian meddling in the 2016 election, doesn’t deserve to go to jail, his lawyers said. Defense lawyers told the judge who will sentence Papadopoulos that “his motives for lying to the FBI were wrong-headed ...

Bloomberg Brazil’s imprisoned Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has been banned from running for president in October after months of commotion that had tainted what is already the most unpredictable election in decades. In a 6-1 ruling, the country’s top electoral court decided that Lula’s candidacy cannot stand, given his 12-year sentence for corruption and money-laundering by an appeals court ...

Bloomberg President Xi Jinping was expected to use a gathering of dozens of African leaders in Beijing to push back against criticism that China’s vast development initiatives risked saddling emerging economies with debt. Xi’s speech recently to the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation gives him a high-profile chance to defend his signature Belt and Road Initiative to develop roads, railways, ports, ...

Bloomberg President Donald Trump will skip two major summits in Asia in November, a move that could stoke concerns in the region about the US’s reliability as a counterweight to China. The White House said that Vice President Mike Pence would travel to Singapore for an 18-nation summit hosted by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, before heading to Papua ...

Bloomberg India’s Supreme Court is set to hear a challenge to the arrest and detention of activists and lawyers in a nation-wide operation that human rights groups say is aimed at intimidating critics of the government. Those arrested work with India’s marginalised tribal and lower caste communities and activists said they’d been rounded up for criticising the government. In a ...

Bloomberg Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is pledging to move quickly towards changing Japan’s constitution, according to an internal campaign pamphlet seen by Bloomberg News, ensuring the divisive proposal is a key part of his bid for a historic third straight term as ruling party leader. Abe intends to have the Liberal Democratic Party submit the amendment in the next parliament ...

Bloomberg The UK and the European Union still say in public they want a Brexit deal wrapped up in the next seven weeks. Behind the scenes, though, senior officials on both sides admit this is unlikely. They now aim to finalise divorce terms by the middle of November at the latest, according to people familiar with the British and European ...

Bloomberg French President Emmanuel Macron joined a challenge issued by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, saying that Europe’s populist forces were right to see him as their “main opponent.” Macron was speaking after Orban and Italy’s Matteo Salvini met in Milan to discuss creating a united front of Europe’s anti-immigrant political forces ahead of elections to the European Parliament next ...