Politics

Bloomberg Republicans wrapped up three crucial US Senate primaries in West Virginia, Indiana and Ohio by nominating candidates who embraced President Donald Trump, while Democratic voters rejected insurgents from the left to stick with the party’s mainstream. In West Virginia, the GOP establishment dodged a bullet as controversial former coal executive Don Blankenship, who drew Trump’s opposition, placed third in ...

Bloomberg North Korea released three US citizens who had been detained for as long as two years, a goodwill gesture ahead of a planned summit between President Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un that’s expected in the coming weeks. The Korean-American men, who all have the common surname of Kim but are not related, immediately boarded a plane with Secretary of ...

Bloomberg Italy’s populists made a last-ditch effort to form a government together, asking President Sergio Mattarella to delay by 24 hours his plan to appoint a non-partisan premier. Luigi Di Maio of the anti-establishment Five Star Movement and Matteo Salvini of the euroskeptic League met on Wednesday at the Rome parliament, according to two lawmakers who declined to be named ...

Bloomberg Lying facedown, a rebel fighter jabbing a rifle barrel into the back of his head, the aid worker was sure his bid to save his fellow South Sudanese from famine was about to end in his own death. The driver’s ordeal in the country’s north cost him his money, watch and mobile phone, but he was left alive, asking ...

Bloomberg Italy is heading for a snap election that may boost the chances of a populist government taking power. Luigi Di Maio, head of the anti-establishment Five Star Movement, and Matteo Salvini, who leads a center-right alliance and the anti-immigrant League, are pressing for an election in July after efforts to form a government broke down. The populist rivals met ...

Bloomberg Indonesian President Joko Widodo may find himself without a challenger in the next election. While Prabowo Subianto — leader of the main opposition party and runner up in the 2014 election — has accepted his party’s endorsement, it’s uncertain if he can assemble a viable coalition to be nominated by an August deadline. Widodo is leading in opinion polls ...

Bloomberg Chinese President Xi Jinping met with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in the port city of Dalian over the past two days, the second meeting between top officials of the allies in less than two months. The summit came after Kim’s surprise two-day visit to Beijing in late March, his first known trip abroad since taking power in 2011. ...

Bloomberg Gina Haspel spent three decades working in secret. Now the lifelong spy is preparing for a bruising public debut as she fights to become President Donald Trump’s CIA chief amid criticism of her involvement in alleged torture programs and role in destroying videotapes of interrogations. Haspel testifies before the Senate Intelligence Committee for her confirmation hearing on Wednesday. She’s ...

Bloomberg Armenian opposition leader Nikol Pashinyan was elected prime minister by the country’s parliament, completing a remarkable rise to power backed by massive street protests that he’s termed a “velvet revolution.” Lawmakers voted by 59 to 42 to name Pashinyan as premier, a week after the ruling Republican Party, which holds a majority of seats, had refused to back his ...

Bloomberg The House of Lords inflicted another defeat on the UK government over its key piece of Brexit legislation, voting to strip out the fixed timing for Britain to leave the EU. The government in November inserted 11 pm on March 29, 2020 into its own bill to “remove any confusion or concern about what ‘exit day’ means,” Brexit Secretary ...