Politics

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 ...

Bloomberg Pakistan Peoples Party co-Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said his father and former President Asif Ali Zardari will be the party’s candidate for prime minister after the national elections scheduled to be held on July 25. “He is the best choice as most likely there will be a coalition government as a result of the elections,” Bilawal said at a ...

Bloomberg UK Prime Minister Theresa May’s ability to deliver Brexit was thrown into doubt as infighting in her Conservative Party left her with a perilously small majority, staggering from one vote to the next. May’s majority was cut to just three votes after she adopted Brexiteer amendments to a key piece of customs legislation, and the proposals narrowly passed through ...

Bloomberg A Slovenian political party that has been talking to the top two finishers in last month’s inconclusive parliamentary ballot proposed that they join forces to break a deadlock that may trigger a re-do election. The euro-area nation of 2 million people is facing a protracted standoff after no party emerged with a clear majority, touching off the European Union’s ...

Bloomberg Nigeria’s ruling party won a gubernatorial vote in a key swing state, with reports of widespread bribery signalling the probable shape of the battle in February’s general elections. The Ekiti win is a boost for the re-election chances of President Muhammadu Buhari, 75. It shows his All Progressives Congress retains the muscle in the southwest region that helped him ...

Bloomberg President Donald Trump began his meeting with Vladimir Putin in Helsinki on Monday, testing his campaign pledge to revive ties with Russia amid pressure to confront the Kremlin leader over election meddling and growing concern that the US is abandoning the current international order. The highly anticipated event started with a one-on-one session between the former property developer and ...

Bloomberg Italy’s deputy prime minister, Matteo Salvini, said he will push the European Union to ease sanctions on Russia and threatened to block the EU’s agenda if he doesn’t get his way. At a press conference in Moscow, Salvini, who is also interior minister, said Russia should be brought back into the “European family” and that Monday’s meeting between US ...

Bloomberg Tunisia’s PM should either urgently address the country’s political and economic crisis or step aside, the president said. The intervention by Beji Caid Essebsi during a television interview comes as international investors signal deepening concerns about the economy, and ordinary Tunisians turn on politicians they see as more interested in jockeying ahead of presidential elections next year. Prime Minister ...

Bloomberg Theresa May’s long-running battle with her divided Conservative Party took a potentially more dangerous turn, as one of her former ministers began assembling lawmakers to vote against her Brexit plans. Euroskeptic Tories are angry that the prime minister wants to keep the UK closely tied to the European Union’s single market after leaving the bloc. Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson ...