Politics

Bloomberg The Kushners have found their out—and it comes at a price. The family firm of presidential son-in-law Jared Kushner will be relieved of the biggest drag on its real estate empire, will no longer face a $1.2 billion debt payment due in months, will be rid of having to overhaul an aging property. But in return, they’ve given up ...

Bloomberg Emmerson Mnangagwa won Zimbabwe’s presidential election, a victory overshadowed by deadly protests, opposition allegations of rigging and threats of legal action, and criticism by observers that the contest was flawed. The controversy surrounding the vote may undermine efforts to reunify the southern African nation and rebuild an economy battered by almost two decades of misrule under Robert Mugabe, who ...

Bloomberg The federal judge presiding over the reunification of immigrant children separated from their parents at the US border ordered the government to figure out how to reunite the more than 500 children still in custody after calling the government’s efforts “unacceptable.” The government must “identify an individual or a team” to create and implement a procedure for those kids ...

Bloomberg Malian President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita and a former finance minister will contest a runoff vote on Aug. 12 in the country’s presidential elections after no candidate secured a majority in the first round. Keita secured 41.4 percent of ballots cast in the July 29 election and his main opponent, Soumaila Cisse, obtained 17.8 percent, the Ministry of Territorial Administration ...

Bloomberg North Korea’s return of about 55 American war dead marks a hopeful milestone in their almost seven-decade journey home. But it could be years before they’re reunited with their families, and some families blame the US government agency charged with identifying them. The remains, which US Vice President Mike Pence was expected to formally accept on Wednesday in a ...

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, ...