Politics

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 ...

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 ...