Politics

Bloomberg US President Donald Trump suggested China is obstructing nuclear talks with North Korea as the world’s two biggest economies tussle over trade. Trump’s remark at a political rally on Wednesday in Tampa, Florida, was the latest sign of friction between the US and North Korea, as they attempt to implement on Kim’s June 12 agreement to “work towards complete ...

Bloomberg China’s military has been ordered by President Xi Jinping to stop running kindergartens and other businesses and focus on fighting, as he attempts to overhaul the world’s largest army. Xi said during a meeting of the Communist Party’s 25-member Politburo that the armed forces should cease commercial activities by the end of the year, the official Xinhua News Agency ...

Bloomberg Zimbabwe’s ruling party won a majority of parliamentary seats in the first election of the post- Robert Mugabe era as the opposition and advocacy groups questioned the credibility of the process. With almost three-quarters of results from the legislative vote tallied, President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front had won 110 of the 210 directly elected seats in ...

Bloomberg Nigeria’s leader Muhammadu Buhari suffered yet another blow as the Senate president walked out of the ruling party less than a week after about 50 lawmakers joined the ranks of a swelling opposition movement ahead of elections in February. “It is a decision that has been inescapably imposed on me by certain elements and forces within the All Progressives ...

Bloomberg Julian Assange soon will leave the Ecuadorian embassy in London—his refuge from criminal charges for the last six years—and enter a changed world. The Australian walked into the building in the capital’s Knightsbridge neighbourhood just before the 2012 Olympics, with Barack Obama in his first term and elections untainted by alleged interference by Russian agents. When he walks out, ...

Bloomberg Democratic Republic of Congo President Joseph Kabila is meeting members of his ruling coalition to discuss who will be the candidate in presidential elections this year, party and government officials said. The central African nation is scheduled to hold parliamentary and presidential votes on December 23 that have been delayed since 2016 by the electoral commission’s inability to organise ...

Bloomberg Estonia, the tiny eastern European nation that says it was the first target of state-sponsored cyber warfare from Russia, may soon be able to strike back. Mirroring larger NATO members, its military is assembling a cyber-command unit to combat virtual attacks that have been growing by as much as 20 percent a year. As well as defensive strategies, the ...

Bloomberg Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte took his cues from Donald Trump at their first White House meeting, backing the president’s views on trade, migration, security and defense spending and setting himself up as an advocate for US policy in the heart of the European Union. “We are two governments of change—many things unite us,” Conte said at a joint ...

Bloomberg UK Prime Minister Theresa May will fly to meet French President Emmanuel Macron at his holiday home to discuss Brexit on Friday, her office said. May is currently on vacation in Italy with her husband but will leave a day earlier than planned to travel to the south of France for discussions on the UK’s withdrawal from the European ...

Bloomberg Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said on Tuesday that US spy agencies were “right” that Russia interfered in the 2016 US presidential election. “It was the Russians,” Nielsen said at the Department of Homeland Security National Cybersecurity Summit in New York. “Any attempt to interfere in our elections is a direct attack against our democracy. American will not tolerate ...