Politics

Bloomberg It’s been a long, hot summer for Emmanuel Macron. The French president went into the break buffeted by a scandal over a rogue aide and returned to a string of bad news on the economy and his reform agenda. But the biggest blow came out of nowhere on Tuesday: Nicolas Hulot, his star minister for energy and the environment, ...

Bloomberg Angela Merkel marked her return to the political front line with a call for Europe to assert its interests more forcefully as President Donald Trump punches holes in the world order. In her first television interview after the summer break, the German chancellor said Europe needs to take on more global responsibility, including on defense. As Trump attacks Germany’s ...

Bloomberg The selection of John McCain’s replacement in the Senate sets up a potentially defining struggle between competing factions within the Republican party—the old guard represented by the late Arizona senator, and the iconoclastic wing led by President Donald Trump. The state’s Republican governor, Doug Ducey, won’t make an announcement about the seat until McCain is laid to rest next ...

Bloomberg India and Pakistan will discuss the resolution of a dispute over sharing river waters this week, officials said, setting off the first official negotiations between South Asia’s nuclear-armed rivals since newly-elected Prime Minister Imran Khan took charge. Both sides will discuss the issue over two days starting from August 29 in Lahore, Indian and Pakistani officials said, asking not ...

Bloomberg Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014 helped boost Vladimir Putin’s approval rating to stratospheric levels. Since then, he’s fuelled an ongoing conflict in Ukraine, interfered with America’s elections and ordered strikes on behalf of the Assad regime in Syria. Through all of these foreign adventures, 87 percent of Russians continued to support him. But those days may be coming ...

Bloomberg Facebook Inc. has removed accounts and pages linked to Myanmar’s top military officials as a new United Nations report accused the country’s armed forces of committing war crimes against the country’s Muslim Rohingya minority. On Monday, Facebook removed 18 Facebook accounts, one Instagram account and 52 Facebook pages that were followed by nearly 12 million people, the company said ...

Bloomberg Democrats voted to dramatically reduce the influence of superdelegates on the party’s presidential nomination process as part of an effort to move past the fissures of the 2016 election as candidates gear up for the next one. The measure passed by a voice vote at the party’s summer conference in Chicago, with a small fraction voting against it. “Today ...

Bloomberg John McCain, the 2008 Republican presidential nominee and Vietnam War hero who was a senior voice on defense and foreign policy in the US Senate, has died. He was 81. McCain died at 4:28 pm on August 25, his office said in an emailed statement. His wife Cindy and his family were with the senator when he passed away ...

Bloomberg Prime Minister Shinzo Abe launched his bid for a historic third-straight term as ruling party president, attempting to put months of scandal behind him and become Japan’s longest-serving premier. The widely anticipated announcement kicked off what was expected to be an easy campaign for leadership of the Liberal Democratic Party. Media surveys of lawmakers and party members who will ...

Bloomberg Australia’s Julie Bishop has resigned as foreign minister and will return to the backbench as the fallout from Friday’s dumping of Malcolm Turnbull as prime minister continues. The 62-year-old stood in the three-way contest to become Liberal Party leader and prime minister after the ousting of Turnbull, but was knocked-out in the first round, gaining just 11 of 85 ...