Politics

Bloomberg Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi cruised to a second term as Egypt’s president, scooping up more than 97 percent of valid votes in the election. Out of some 60 million registered voters, nearly 25 million, or 41 percent, went to the polls, according to the final results announced by the National Election Authority on Monday. Sisi secured roughly the same proportion of ...

Bloomberg David Shulkin, removed days ago as Secretary of Veterans Affairs, said political appointees engineered his ouster as they push for “more aggressive” changes to how the sprawling department is run. “I did not resign,” Shulkin said on Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union.” In a separate interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” he said that “There would be ...

Bloomberg The veteran local governor of the Siberian region of Kemerovo has resigned over a shopping-mall blaze last week that claimed more than 60 lives. Aman Tuleyev, who’s been governor of the Russian mining region since 1997, said the decision to submit his resignation was the “right, conscious and only true decision” after the March 25 blaze, which killed 64 ...

AMMAN /Reuters Negotiators in the last rebel-held bastion in Syria’s eastern Ghouta reached a deal with the Russian side to evacuate the wounded from Douma to rebel-held northern Syria, local sources familiar with the deal said. The agreement was reached by the negotiating committee that comprises both civic leaders and representatives of Jaish al Islam, the rebel faction in control ...

Bloomberg The Kremlin is sensing a crack in European unity as France and Germany seek to maintain ties, even after the West’s unprecedented expulsion of Russian diplomats over the nerve-agent attack in the UK. French President Emmanuel Macron still plans to visit a showcase economic forum in Russia in late May, Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said, two days after ...

Bloomberg Israeli and Palestinian leaders blamed each other for the deaths of at least 16 Palestinians who were part of a mass protest along the Gaza border, with each side lobbing threats of escalating the violence. Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said Israel was “fully responsible” for killing his countrymen, and a video appearing to show an unarmed teenager being ...

Bloomberg A Russian citizen accused of hacking LinkedIn and Dropbox in 2012 appeared in a US courtroom and was ordered to undergo a medical evaluation after being extradited from the Czech Republic in a move that may increase diplomatic tensions between Washington and Moscow. Yevgeniy Nikulin, 30, who’s repeatedly denied the hacking allegations, “has a number of medical issues and ...

Bloomberg Sierra Leone holds a presidential run-off vote for the right to rule the West African nation that’s facing the challenge of reviving an economy battered by the Ebola outbreak and a drop in commodity prices. Former military head of state Julius Maada Bio of the main opposition Sierra Leone People’s Party led Samura Kamara of the ruling All People’s ...

Bloomberg Russia arrested Summa Group co-owner Ziyavudin Magomedov, who has been in talks to sell his stake in a key port, as part of case into suspected embezzlement of state funds for infrastructure and energy projects. Moscow’s Tverskoy District Court ordered Magomedov to be held for two months and declined his request to post as bail the 2.5 billion-ruble ($44 ...

Bloomberg Russia ordered the UK to make deep new cuts at its diplomatic missions one day after Moscow kicked out 60 US envoys, ratcheting up tensions with the West over the poisoning of a former spy. The UK must cut “more than 50” diplomatic and technical staff at its Russian embassy and consulate within a month, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria ...