Politics

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 ...

Bloomberg US President Donald Trump called for continued pressure against Kim Jong Un, after China said the North Korean leader expressed an openness to disarmament talks during a surprise visit to Beijing. Trump struck an optimistic tone after the unexpected summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping, saying in a pair of early morning tweets on Wednesday that Kim might “do ...

Reuters A month before the 2016 presidential election, a campaign aide to Donald Trump directly communicated with a man he knew was a onetime Russian spy, according to a court filing by Special Counsel Robert Mueller. Rick Gates, the campaign aide, told an attorney for a US law firm that a Russian national they worked with in Ukraine was a ...

Bloomberg Poland’s ruling party suffered its biggest drop in popularity in two years as clashes over democratic standards and a Holocaust law, a government shakeup and a public bonus scandal were compounded by mass street protests. The Law & Justice party saw its support drop more than a quarter to 28 percent, from 40 percent a month earlier, according to ...

Bloomberg Silvio Berlusconi is open to his party joining a possible coalition government formed by Italy’s center-right alliance and the anti-establishment Five Star Movement — but he wants its leader Luigi Di Maio to stop demanding the premiership. Berlusconi believes Di Maio should drop his claim on the prime minister’s job, and focus on drawing up a common program, according ...

Bloomberg Hundreds of wealthy Russians who moved to the UK promising to invest millions of pounds in businesses will have their visas reviewed under plans for a crackdown following the nerve agent attack on a former spy. Home Secretary Amber Rudd said her officials will be trawling through the cases of 700 Russians who were given permission to come to ...

Bloomberg Ethiopia’s ruling coalition appointed a top official from the protest-hit Oromia region as leader, as the government tries to quell unrest that’s posed the biggest challenge to its rule in a quarter-century. The Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front chose Abiy Ahmed, 42, a retired lieutenant general and recently appointed chairman of the Oromo People’s Democratic Organization, to succeed Hailemariam ...

Bloomberg Hundreds of Ghana opposition members took to the streets of the capital, Accra, to demonstrate against a government decision to allow a US military base in the West African nation. Former Vice President Kwesi Amissah-Arthur and general secretary of the main opposition National Democratic Congress Asiedu Nketia joined protesters calling themselves Ghana First Patriotic Front. Members of the Convention ...

Bloomberg The US president often accused of cozying up to the Kremlin suddenly looks closer than ever to the European allies he’s sometimes snubbed. Donald Trump expelled 60 Russian diplomats considered spies from the US, the most since 1986, demonstrating united resolve with Europe after the UK blamed Vladimir Putin’s government for a March 4 nerve-agent attack on a former ...