Politics

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 ...

Bloomberg A federal judge wants an update on Monday on government efforts to reunify children separated from their families at the US-Mexico border, after he demanded more cooperation from the Trump administration. Judge Dana Sabraw wrote that the US Department of Health and Human Services “either doesn’t understand the court’s order, or is acting in defiance of the order.” He ...

Bloomberg Two-thirds of Filipino voters remain opposed to President Rodrigo Duterte’s push to change the constitution and give more power to regional governments, according to a new poll. The Pulse Asia Research Inc. survey conducted last month found that 62 percent of voters rejected federalism and 67 percent opposed changing the constitution, although 28 percent said they might be open ...

Bloomberg Germany’s foreign minister urged the EU to “readjust” its relationship with the US and said the bloc can no longer fully rely on the White House after President Donald Trump identified America’s long-term ally as a “ foe”. Trump, who met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki on Monday, characterised the EU as an adversary, citing a trading ...

Bloomberg US and North Korean officials met on Sunday to discuss the return of remains of American soldiers killed almost seven decades ago during the Korean War, with the talks offering a chance to ease tensions between the two sides as they argue over disarmament issues. The meeting began around 10 am Seoul time at the border village of Panmunjom, ...

Bloomberg President Donald Trump said he may ask Vladimir Putin to extradite 12 Russian intelligence agents indicted for hacking Democratic email accounts during the 2016 campaign, and said he has “low expectations” for his summit on Monday with the Russian leader. “I go in with low expectations,” Trump said in excerpts of an interview with CBS News released. “I’m not ...

Bloomberg A brittle calm took hold in the Gaza Strip and southern Israel on Sunday after the Palestinian enclave’s Hamas rulers and another powerful militant faction reported that efforts had succeeded to end a weekend of escalating violence. Hazem Qassem, a Hamas spokesman, said in an emailed statement that regional and international mediators crafted an agreement that led to a ...

Bloomberg UK Prime Minister Theresa May said US President Donald Trump advised her to be litigious in dealing with the European Union on Brexit. “He told me I should sue the EU,” May told BBC. “Sue the EU, not go into negotiations, sue them.” In an interview given before arriving in the UK, Trump criticised May for the way she ...

Bloomberg Italy has called on other European Union nations to take some of the 450 migrants aboard two ships in the Mediterranean after the country’s interior ministry refused to allow them to come ashore. “I expect facts and not words, concrete action,” said Matteo Salvini, who leads the anti-immigration League party and is both interior minister and a deputy prime ...

Bloomberg An IS suicide bomber killed at least 159 people in Pakistan on July 13 in one of the country’s worst attacks in living memory ahead of a tense July 25 national election. The blast also injured 200 others at an election rally in northwestern Mastung in the restive province of Balochistan, Ali Ahmed, a rescue worker in Mastung told ...