Politics

Bloomberg Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said the US is building a more lethal force posture in the Indo-Pacific as part of efforts to make sure China doesn’t dominate the region the way it intends to. China is “the only country with both the will and, increasingly, the power to reshape its region and the international order to suit its ...

Bloomberg The UK government could use the military to help ease any disruption caused by public sector strikes, according to Conservative Party Chairman Nadhim Zahawi. If unions chase wage increases in line with or above inflation, “you will embed inflation for longer and hurt the most vulnerable,” Zahawi said on the “Sophy Ridge on Sunday” show on Sky News. The ...

Bloomberg Retiring Republican Senator Pat Toomey said Donald Trump’s influence on the party is diminishing “rapidly” and the former president has little chance of becoming the GOP presidential nominee in 2024. Trump has announced he’ll make another run for the presidency. But Republicans fell well short of expectations during last month’s midterm elections and those losses, along with Trump’s 2020 ...

  Bloomberg El Salvador President Nayib Bukele has deployed 10,000 security forces to confront the threat from gangs in a suburb of the capital, San Salvador. Soldiers and security agents surrounded the municipality of Soyapango to remove gang members in the area, according to a statement issued by the presidency. “8,500 soldiers and 1,500 agents have surrounded the city, while ...

Bloomberg Moscow will intensify its cyber efforts to pressure the sources of Ukraine’s military and political support both domestic and foreign, according to Microsoft Corp. In a post on the company’s “On the Issues” blog, Clint Watts, general manager of Microsoft’s digital threat analysis centre, urged customers to prepare for more Russian cyber attacks over the winter. “Russian military intelligence ...

Bloomberg The European Union (EU) should improve its state aid rules and consider more green-transition funding to offset possible distortions from the new US climate and tax law, said European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen. Her remarks came a day before the US-EU Trade and Technology Council ministerial meeting to be held at the University of Maryland, where the ...

Bloomberg A Nato foreign minister warned that economic reliance on China is risky after what happened with Russia, even as other envoys stressed how Beijing could help push for a deal to end the war in Ukraine. “We’ve seen what dependence on Russia means to all of us in the West,” Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis told Bloomberg TV on ...

Bloomberg The findings of an advisory panel set up by South Africa’s parliament to probe whether there are grounds for lawmakers to take action against President Cyril Ramaphosa in connection with a scandal over a robbery at his game farm was expected to be published on Wednesday. Chief Justice Sandile Ngcobo, who headed the three-member panel, handed the report over ...

Bloomberg European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen suggested creating a special international court to probe Russian actions in Ukraine and using frozen Russian assets to help rebuild the nation. The head of the European Union’s executive arm said the bloc would try to gather international support for a “specialised court backed by the United Nations to investigate and prosecute ...

Bloomberg The European Commission recommended delaying the disbursement of crucial funding to Hungary, saying Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s government has failed to allay its concerns over graft and the erosion of the rule of law. The EU’s executive arm said member states should conditionally approve Hungary’s Covid-era recovery plan, but Budapest would first have to comply with a set of ...