Politics

Bloomberg Almost half the UK public now wants to see a new centrist political party as the Labour opposition party lurches further to the left and Liberal Democrats appear to lose faith in their own party, a new poll showed Saturday. There’s a 49 percent interest in a new party compared with 46 percent a year ago, according to a ...

Bloomberg Paraguay headed to the polls on Sunday, with voters set to elect a new Congress and a new president in one of the fastest-growing economies in South America. Voting stations opened at 7 am with the Electoral Tribunal expected to publish preliminary results on its website as early as 5 pm. About 4.2 million Paraguayans are registered to vote ...

Bloomberg Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif suggested a show of respect from President Donald Trump could help yield a prisoner swap. “It is a possibility, certainly from a humanitarian perspective, but — but it requires a change of attitude,” Zarif told correspondent Margaret Brennan in an interview with CBS News’s “Face the Nation” that was expected to air in ...

Bloomberg Italy’s ex-premier Silvio Berlusconi flew in by helicopter, twice in a week. His less affluent allies and rivals took to their cars to brave the roads of the mountainous southern Molise area — it doesn’t have a motorway. Italy’s political leaders, from Matteo Salvini of the euroskeptic League to Luigi Di Maio of the anti-establishment Five Star Movement, have ...

Bloomberg US President Donald Trump hailed “big progress” as North Korean leader Kim Jong Un pledged to halt nuclear testing, a largely symbolic gesture that appeared aimed at softening the ground for talks between the two leaders. Kim told a ruling party meeting in Pyongyang his regime would suspend tests of atomic bombs and intercontinental ballistic missiles after achieving its ...

Bloomberg Hello, Pyongyang. This is Seoul calling. For the first time since the division of the peninsula, the two Koreas set up and tested a direct phone line for their leaders, South Korea said. The first call between South Korea President Moon Jae-in and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un was expected take place sometime before their historic April 27 meeting, ...

Bloomberg The Democratic National Committee (DNC) ued Russia, the Trump campaign and WikiLeaks claiming widespread interference in the 2016 election as part of a “brazen attack on American democracy”. The civil lawsuit could force President Donald Trump’s 2016 staffers to answer questions under oath about campaign activities. Evidence gathered by the DNC could be made public in court filings and ...

Bloomberg With Paraguay’s economy booming, this Sunday’s elections are less about policies and more about the candidates and their parties. In terms of growth, this landlocked country — roughly the size of California — is one of the few bright spots in Latin America in recent years. Barring an upset, Mario Abdo Benitez, a 46-year old former senator whose father ...

Bloomberg Angela Merkel has enjoyed a relatively painless start to her fourth term in office. That could be about to change with the German leader’s Social Democrat coalition partners poised to elect a combative one-time party rebel as their leader. Andrea Nahles, who made her mark as a rabble-rousing opponent of former SPD Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder’s labour reforms, is slated ...

Bloomberg John McDonnell, self-proclaimed enemy of capitalism and the man who would be chancellor of the exchequer, took pride in sowing dissent. He’s such a serial rebel that he used to produce his own version of the Budget as a rank-and-file lawmaker when the Labour Party was in power. In opposition, he and now-leader Jeremy Corbyn, undermined their bosses by ...