Politics

Bloomberg Zimbabwe’s main opposition party said it was well ahead in the first election of the post- Robert Mugabe era and it’s ready to form the next government, as unofficial results began streaming in. With official tallies set to start being announced on Tuesday afternoon, the focus now shifts to whether the vote was credible and the results are accepted, ...

Bloomberg Pakistan’s Imran Khan is close to forming a coalition government and has decided his cabinet, which will name former Engro Corp. head Asad Umar as finance minister. The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, or Movement for Justice, has “near” 135 seats right now, Arif Alvi, a senior PTI leader and lawmaker-elect, said. The PTI is currently negotiating with smaller parties, including the ...

Bloomberg The Spanish government approved emergency measures to handle a significant increase in the number of migrants reaching the country’s southern beaches. The administration will set up centres to process and identify migrants’ needs in their first few days, the prime minister’s office in Madrid said. The government said it expects the trend to continue for the rest of the ...

Bloomberg Security has been tightened across India’s northeastern state of Assam as millions discovered they were at risk of deportation following the release of the federal government’s controversial citizens list. About four million people saw their names were missing from the final draft of the list that was published by the Registrar General of India on Monday. Activists say the ...

Bloomberg President Donald Trump said he had a nasty and contentious business relationship with Robert Mueller, and he called on the special counsel to disclose such “conflicts of interest” in one of his most direct attacks on the probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election. Trump didn’t say what those conflicts were, but he said he turned down Mueller ...

Bloomberg Zimbabweans streamed to polling stations to vote in the first election since the end of Robert Mugabe’s fractious 37-year-rule. A credible vote would help provide the southern African nation with a foundation to begin rebuilding its battered international reputation and an economy largely laid to ruin during the latter half of Mugabe’s reign. While the campaign has been mostly ...

Bloomberg President Donald Trump faces potential legal and political danger if it’s proven he knew in advance about a meeting his son and campaign aides had with Russians said to be promising dirt on Hillary Clinton, according to former federal prosecutors. The allegation reportedly made by Trump’s former personal attorney Michael Cohen adds an explosive twist to the famous June ...

Bloomberg Hungarian PM Viktor Orban, emboldened by the surge of right-wing parties across Europe, called for a united front by “illiberal” forces to win control in next year’s European Parliament elections. Having solidified his rule at home in the past eight years and reelected in April, Orban set his sights on wider dominance for his version of “Christian democracy”, that ...

Bloomberg Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull was dealt a blow by Australian voters in by-elections held that boosted the main opposition Labor Party. Labor was returned in four of the five electorates up for grabs even after polls showed that Turnbull’s Liberal-National coalition had a chance to win two. A minor party retained the one seat it already held. The bulk ...

Bloomberg Cambodian PM Hun Sen extended his more-than-three-decade run in power, easily winning a boycotted election on Sunday after he disbanded the main opposition party last year. Khieu Kanharith, the government’s top spokesman, told the Associated Press that the ruling Cambodian People’s Party won at least 70 percent of the vote. The results were never in doubt after Hun Sen moved ...