Politics

Bloomberg Vladimir Putin was sworn in for the fourth time as president, promising Russians an “economic and technological breakthrough” and reappointing his long-serving prime minister amid the deepest standoff with the West in decades. Despite Putin’s rhetoric, there’s little appetite in the Kremlin for real changes, according to senior officials, as the growing tension with the US and European Union ...

Bloomberg Unidentified gunmen killed at least 45 people in an attack in a central Nigerian region that has been plagued by violence between farmers and herder communities. The attackers also burned down homes in the district of Birnin Gwari, about 200 kilometres (124 miles) northwest of the capital, Abuja, Kaduna state police chief Austin Iwar said in a text message. ...

Bloomberg Italy’s two biggest political forces rejected the idea of a government of technocrats in talks with President Sergio Mattarella, increasing the chances of new elections as early as July to overcome a two-month deadlock. Center-right leader Matteo Salvini, who also heads the anti-immigrant League, demanded the head of state give him a mandate to try to form a government ...

Bloomberg UK Foreign Minister Boris Johnson is in Washington this week to make a last-ditch argument to persuade President Donald Trump to remain in the Iran nuclear deal, arguing the agreement is flawed but can be improved. “We need to find a way of fixing that, and the president has been right to call attention to it, but you can’t ...

Bloomberg French President Emmanuel Macron said he’s been “unrelenting” on the issue of Russian interference in the nation’s politics, and Russian President Vladimir Putin appears to have understood. “We will not let them get away with it,” Macron said in an interview with Le Journal du Dimanche. “It’s with this attitude that one can gain the respect of others. Russian ...

Bloomberg Lebanon is holding its first parliamentary elections in nine years, a pivotal moment for the country as it tries to ease a crippling debt burden and avoid being dragged deeper into some of the Middle East’s escalating crises. Polls opened on Sunday morning under a new law based on proportional representation that’s meant to more accurately represent Lebanon’s complex ...

Bloomberg North Korea said US sanctions aren’t the reason behind its willingness to remove nuclear weapons from peninsula, accusing its adversary of trying to ramp up tensions ahead of a summit between leaders of the countries. The US is misleading the public by saying its sanctions are working, KCNA said on Sunday. America isn’t being helpful if it continues to ...

Bloomberg Rudy Giuliani suggested that Donald Trump plans to pull the US out of the Iran nuclear agreement, pointing to the presence in the president’s inner circle of new Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and long-time foreign policy hawk John Bolton. “We have a president who is tough,” Giuliani said at a conference organised in Washington by the Organization of ...

Bloomberg President Donald Trump renewed a threat to close down the federal government when current funding runs out in September if immigration reforms and funding for a wall on the US border with Mexico aren’t forthcoming. “We may have to close up our country to get this straight,” Trump said during an event in Cleveland focused on the benefits of ...

Bloomberg Theresa May declared her “absolute determination” to make a success of Brexit as she came under new pressure from Conservatives on both sides of the Brexit debate. Writing in the Sun newspaper on Sunday, the British prime minister pledged to leave the European Union’s single market and the customs union and build “a new relationship with EU partners that ...