Politics

Bloomberg A United Nations report says Myanmar’s top generals should be investigated and prosecuted for committing genocide and war crimes against the Muslim Rohingya minority, raising pressure on the international community to act against the country’s military and civilian government. The UN Human Rights Council-mandated fact-finding mission’s report found Myanmar’s security forces systematically murdered, tortured, sexually assaulted and enslaved civilians, ...

Bloomberg Russia is to hold its biggest military maneuvers since the height of the Cold War next month, mobilising about 300,000 troops and including the participation of thousands of soldiers from China, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said. The Vostok-2018 exercises in Russia’s eastern and central military districts—spanning from the Ural Mountains to the Pacific coast—from September 11-15 will involve almost ...

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 ...