Politics

Bloomberg President Donald Trump is changing the subject — but it’s not clear how easily Republicans in Congress will be able to move on. After days of backlash over his summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Trump sought refuge in the populism that won him office. He threatened China with more tariffs, accused the European Union of currency manipulation and ...

Bloomberg UK Prime Minister Theresa May’s Chequers summit to reach agreement with her cabinet on a plan for leaving the European Union (EU) was marked by stark divisions on the best way to proceed, two newspapers said. Andrea Leadsom, the leader of Parliament’s lower house, told ministers that she “hated” May’s proposal to retain many of the UK’s economic links ...

Bloomberg South African President Cyril Ramaphosa boosted his control over the ruling African National Congress(ANC) ahead of next year’s elections as his allies secured key party posts in the central Gauteng province and a divided leadership was elected in the eastern KwaZulu-Natal region, a stronghold of his predecessor Jacob Zuma. Premier David Makhura was elected unopposed as the ANC’s provincial ...

Bloomberg Donald Trump was still dug in, unwilling to back down a day after siding with Vladimir Putin over US intelligence agencies in accepting the Russian leader’s denial of interfering in the 2016 US presidential election. That changed after a meeting between the president and Vice President Mike Pence and Secretary of State Michael Pompeo, according to a person familiar ...

Bloomberg PM Narendra Modi’s government faces a no-confidence vote on Friday as the opposition uses the new monsoon session of India’s parliament to challenge his administration ahead of general elections early next year. With a majority in India’s 543-seat lower house of parliament, Modi’s coalition is expected to defeat the no-confidence vote. But the opposition, including the Congress party led ...

Bloomberg As they paced the dark, wood-paneled corridors deep in the heart of the British Parliament, Theresa May’s government enforcers were getting desperate. It looked as if the prime minister had finally run out of road. After 10 days in which her Brexit plans had been savaged by critics on all sides, a new rebellion was brewing. There were more ...

Bloomberg Poland’s ruling party will start the fast-track approval of a draft law meant to pre-empt potential punishment from the European Union and complete the most dramatic judicial revamp in the bloc’s former communist east. Racing against EU efforts to halt the overhaul, the Law & Justice party will begin debate on a bill during a three-day parliamentary session starting ...

Bloomberg Justin Trudeau is resetting after a rocky year dented his chances of re-election. The Canadian prime minister shuffled his cabinet on Wednesday, swapping roles like trade and natural resources — amid the purchase and eventual resale of Kinder Morgan Inc.’s Trans Mountain oil pipeline — while leaving key posts like finance and foreign affairs unchanged, ensuring a continuity of ...

Bloomberg President Donald Trump’s equivocation on US intelligence agencies during a news conference with Russian leader Vladimir Putin triggered the most intense backlash from Republicans of anything he’s done since winning election in 2016. Republicans who looked past the release of his recorded his refusal to denounce neo-Nazi protesters, or complained but took no substantive action when he imposed tariffs ...

Bloomberg Support for South Africa’s ruling African National Congress has rebounded after Cyril Ramaphosa replaced Jacob Zuma as party leader and president to the point that it’s likely to easily retain its outright majority in next year’s elections, an opinion poll shows. Sixty percent of 3,738 adults interviewed between April 20 and June 7 by research company Ipsos said they ...