Politics

Bloomberg Violence flared along the volatile Israel-Gaza Strip border on Saturday, with the Israeli air force striking sites inside the Hamas-ruled enclave including two tunnels designed for attacks, and Palestinian militants firing volleys of mortars and rockets. No serious casualties were reported on either side. The military said it struck overnight in response to arson attacks from Gaza and assaults ...

Bloomberg Whatever Donald Trump had hoped to get out of his summit with Vladimir Putin, Robert Mueller changed the game. The US president’s goals for the meeting had always been unclear. But now Trump is under pressure — including from several members of Congress from his own party — to finally confront Putin once and for all over trying to ...

Bloomberg Escaping gruesome violence at the hands of police and gangs in Honduras, a mother and her daughter arrived in the US on June 8 near McAllen, Texas, and turned themselves in to federal agents. They were then separated and held in custody 1,555 miles apart, according to court filings. The 12-year-old daughter is now among a couple thousand migrant ...

Bloomberg The Brazilian presidential candidate with the most enthusiasm for privatising state assets quit the race, saying he had fulfilled his duty as a citizen. Flavio Rocha, the former chief executive officer of retail giant Riachuelo and candidate for the Brazilian Republican Party, had about one percent of vote intentions. “I am convinced that I helped inspire” entrepreneurs or those ...

Bloomberg Donald Trump and Angela Merkel got off to a prickly start at a NATO summit as the US president blasted Germany over its support for a gas pipeline from Russia, prompting a tart response from the chancellor. “It’s very sad when Germany makes a massive oil and gas deal with Russia where we’re supposed to be guarding against Russia ...

Bloomberg While there’s little prospect that Japanese consumers will ever buy enough American cars to please Donald Trump, the Abe government’s record spending on defense is shaping up as a bright spot in bilateral trade for the US president. Japan’s purchases through the US Foreign Military Sales programme represent 16 percent of all non-personnel costs for the nation’s self-defense forces ...

Bloomberg The Pakistan Peoples Party said a money-laundering probe by the government’s Federal Investigation Agency that has named its co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari and his sister as beneficiaries amounts to “pre-poll rigging” and “political victimisation,” joining other politicians raising concern about the fairness of national elections. The former ruling party, which held the second-largest amount of national seats before parliament ...

Bloomberg Euroskeptic Tories have failed to stop UK Prime Minister Theresa May’s plan for a soft Brexit and are considering a radical last ditch move that could bring down her minority government later this year. May is pushing ahead with her blueprint for keeping the UK in a close trading partnership with the European Union for goods, despite the resignations ...

Bloomberg The US is set to scale back aid to African military units fighting terrorism as it realigns its defense strategy to compete with more traditional threats from China and Russia. The shift comes despite a growing terror threat on the continent that has led to an increased American presence, resulting in attacks on US forces in Niger and Somalia ...

Bloomberg US President Donald Trump said he believed North Korean leader Kim Jong-un would keep his pledge to “denuclearise,” while suggesting that neighbouring China might be working to undermine talks. “I have confidence that Kim Jong-un will honour the contract we signed &, even more importantly, our handshake,” Trump said in a tweet, adding that Beijing “may be exerting negative ...