Politics

Bloomberg President Donald Trump pushed back against criticism that he gave too much ground to North Korea at last week’s summit, saying the US “got so much” out of the meeting, including the return of American citizens. The president also defended his decision to halt military exercises with South Korea in the region, writing that the so-called war games can ...

Bloomberg UK Prime Minister Theresa May has been warned that rebels inside her own party could bring down her government if they don’t like the final Brexit deal she negotiates with the EU. Pro-EU former attorney general Dominic Grieve said he had sleepless nights worrying about the choice facing Parliament when May reaches an agreement with the bloc on terms ...

Bloomberg Colombians are voting in the runoff of the first presidential election since the demobilisation of the nation’s largest guerrilla group, with a market-friendly lawyer facing a leftist who wants to tax the rich. Polls predict a clear win for Ivan Duque, 41, who wants to cut taxes on company profits, over Gustavo Petro, 58, who wants to redistribute land ...

Bloomberg Former FBI Director James Comey was “insubordinate” in handling the probe into Hillary Clinton, damaging the bureau and the Justice Department’s image of impartiality even though he wasn’t motivated by politics, the department’s watchdog found. Although the report by Inspector General Michael Horowitz doesn’t deal directly with Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s inquiry into Russia meddling in the 2016 US ...

Bloomberg Greek PM Alexis Tsipras survived a no-confidence vote in parliament, securing support to move forward to sign an agreement with the Republic of Macedonia and to continue governing until his term expires in 2019. A total of 153 lawmakers in the 300-seat chamber voted against the opposition-backed motion, the parliament speaker said after the session in Athens, against 127 ...

Bloomberg President Donald Trump’s summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un produced a historic handshake but all of the work to make the deal a reality lies ahead, with no benchmarks for progress, follow-up meetings scheduled or even common agreement on what success would look like. The lack of any details contributed to an air of skepticism in Washington about ...

Bloomberg Fresh off his summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, Donald Trump returned to Washington on June 13 to face what may be the biggest threat to his presidency — Special Counsel Robert Mueller. Now, Mueller is intent on quickly resolving a central issue with Trump’s legal team: whether the president will sit voluntarily for an interview in the ...

Bloomberg UK Prime Minister Theresa May averted a revolt by pro-European lawmakers in her party, dodging what threatened to be a major political crisis. Now the focus shifts to the price of the rebels’ compliance, and another fight looms. Some Conservative lawmakers had been pushing for an amendment that would have given Parliament unprecedented powers over the premier’s Brexit strategy. ...

Bloomberg Italy’s foreign minister summoned the French ambassador to Rome in an escalating row over the Italian government’s decision to block access for a migrant rescue ship. Foreign Minister Enzo Moavero Milanesi summoned the ambassador to a morning meeting “following the statements made yesterday in Paris on the Aquarius affair,” his ministry said. French President Emmanuel Macron said that Italy ...

Bloomberg German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas called on European nations to unite and fill the void left by the US drawback from global agreements that have underpinned the trans-Atlantic relationship for decades. “Under President Trump, the Atlantic has gotten wider. Trump’s isolationist policy has created a worldwide vacuum — that one can especially feel after the G-7,” Maas said. “The ...