Politics

Bloomberg Malaysian PM Mahathir Mohamad has revived the muscular foreign policy that characterised his first stint in power, seeking to renegotiate a longstanding water supply agreement with Singapore and taking shots at both the US and China. In an interview with Bloomberg Television, the 92-year-old Mahathir criticised a 1962 water supply deal with Singapore as “too costly,” adding to tensions ...

Bloomberg Donald Trump’s family separation policy is continuing to create havoc for his administration, and ramped-up rhetoric from the president won’t help. The White House has struggled to display a unified response to a self-imposed crisis that appears likely to dominate the national agenda for a third straight week. June 24 offered a fresh signal that immigration would continue to ...

Bloomberg Matteo Salvini’s League surged in a second round of municipal voting in Italy, confirming a steady pickup in support for the anti-migrant party since March’s national elections. Candidates from the League and traditional allies Forza Italia and Brothers of Italy won in the second round of local votes in most Italian cities, data on the Interior Ministry’s website show. ...

Bloomberg President Donald Trump defended his immigration policies at an event in Nevada aimed at boosting the prospects of a Republican senator facing a difficult re-election fight, saying that without a tough stance on the border the US would be “overrun.” Trump held a closed-door fundraiser in the Las Vegas area for Senator Dean Heller, and afterward addressed the Nevada ...

Bloomberg The president of Zimbabwe Emmerson Mnangagwa escaped unscathed after an explosion at an election rally injured both his deputies, with the blast coming within hours of a separate grenade attack on Ethiopia’s prime minister. “’It exploded a few inches from me, but it is not my time,” Mnangagwa said in comments broadcast by state-owned media. Footage from the stadium ...

Bloomberg A top Palestinian official accused the US of trying to overthrow Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, in an attempt to discredit an American peace mission it is shunning. The West Bank-based Palestinian Authority broke off contact with the US in December over its Jerusalem policy, and has not been party to the meetings that negotiators Jared Kushner and Jason ...

Bloomberg European leaders gathered in Brussels on Sunday for an informal meeting aimed at paving the way to a deal on the management of migration, amid an escalating crisis that threatens to unravel the bloc’s passport-free travel area and dissolve Germany’s governing coalition. “This is not about the survival of a chancellor,” Luxembourg Prime Minister Xavier Bettel said. “It’s about ...

Bloomberg The global trade war is about to get worse, as the rules-based system of international commerce is poised to revert to an environment where the strong impose their will upon the weak, according to an internal memo circulated among European Union governments. The disputes between the US and its closest trading partners are set to escalate “in the coming ...

Bloomberg There is a corner of Berlin where the golden age of US-German relations lingers on. Visitors to the Allied Museum on Clayallee — a boulevard named for General Lucius Clay, commander in chief of US forces in Europe after World War II — are greeted by a propeller aircraft that flew in supplies to West Berlin during the Soviet ...

Bloomberg The Trump team’s mission to the Middle East will run into a dead end if it tries to dodge political issues at the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s spokesman said. The lead US Middle East peace negotiators, Jared Kushner and Jason Greenblatt, have been visiting with leaders in the region this week as they ...