Politics

Bloomberg Donald Trump is still weighing whether to agree to an interview in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation but there’s concern about what he sees as a corrupt and tainted probe, the president’s lead attorney said. Trump’s lawyers are close to making a determination, but a decision has been put off as more details emerge about “bias” on the part ...

Bloomberg Imran Khan stepped onto a makeshift stage in a trash-ridden Karachi district to address hundreds of supporters who’d been waiting for hours. His message: vote out the city’s rulers who have failed to provide jobs, education, sanitation and healthcare. “This is the first opportunity to free yourselves — they, despite taking turns for the last 30 years, couldn’t give ...

Bloomberg US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo left Pyongyang without immediately announcing any breakthroughs in efforts to implement North Korean leader Kim Jong-un’s agreement with President Donald Trump. Pompeo held two days of meetings with senior North Korean officials led by top Kim aide, Kim Yong Chol, on concerns ranging from the regime’s nuclear arsenal to US security guarantees. It ...

Bloomberg Former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif will return to the country after he was convicted on charges of corruption in a judgment that will likely dent the former ruling party’s prospects ahead of national elections this month. An anti-corruption court handed down a 10-year jail sentence and an $10.6 million fine against Sharif, 68. His daughter Maryam and her ...

Bloomberg UK PM Theresa May imposed her vision of a soft Brexit on her divided Cabinet, pleasing business with a plan to keep close trade ties to the European Union and telling insolent ministers to get behind her or resign. Her plan, which would set up a free-trade area with the EU and mirror EU rules for goods and food, ...

Bloomberg The US Justice Department told a federal judge that the government needs more time to “safely” reunite almost 3,000 kids with their parents. US District Judge Dana Sabraw in San Diego had ordered the US to return all children under age five to their parents by July 10 and all other minors by July 26. “The government does not ...

Bloomberg Paul Manafort said he can’t be ready for a July 25 trial in Alexandria, Virginia, on bank fraud and tax charges because the judge in his separate money-laundering case in Washington put him in a jail two hours away from his lawyers’ offices. Manafort, President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman, asked the judge in Virginia to delay the trial ...

Bloomberg Polish PM Mateusz Morawiecki faced off against European Union lawmakers over a domestic judicial overhaul that has put a political and legal EU pinch on Poland, which also risks suffering a financial hit as a result of the dispute. In an appearance at the European Parliament, Morawiecki gave an unabashed defense of Polish legislation that forced two-fifths of Supreme ...

Bloomberg French President Emmanuel Macron discussed ways to intensify the battle against terrorism in West Africa during talks with Nigerian leader Muhammadu Buhari. Nigeria’s fight against the nine-year-old Boko Haram insurgency in the far northeast has left more than 20,000 people dead and forced millions to flee their homes. In the semi-arid Sahel region south of the Sahara desert, France ...

Bloomberg Malaysia’s former leader Najib Razak has pleaded not guilty to charges of corruption and criminal breach of trust in connection with a multibillion-dollar scandal surrounding state fund 1MDB. Appearing in the High Court on Wednesday, Najib was granted bail of 1 million ringgit ($247,000) and ordered to surrender his passports. He faces three counts of criminal breach of trust, ...