Politics

Bloomberg Presidential elections in Sierra Leone will probably go to a second round as the two main political parties remain neck-and-neck with half the votes counted. The count of 50 percent of the ballots showed that the ruling All People’s Congress got 566,113 votes, while the main opposition Sierra Leone People’s Party obtained 564,687 votes, according to the National Electoral ...

Bloomberg President Donald Trump will need to adopt an unfamiliar set of traits — patience, persistence, clear goals and conditions — and be prepared to walk away when he meets North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, people who have negotiated with Kim’s regime say. Trump’s apparently impromptu decision to begin setting up talks contrasts with Kim’s situation — North Korea ...

Bloomberg Slovakia’s ruling parties prepared to respond after tens of thousands of people took to the streets in the biggest protests since the fall of the Iron curtain, calling on PM Robert Fico’s government to step down over a failure to fight corruption. The biggest crisis faced by the three-time premier’s government, triggered by the murder of an investigative journalist ...

Reuters Britain and Saudi Arabia want to strengthen a United Nations inspection regime for ships headed to Yemen, the Britishforeign minister said after meeting his Saudi counterpart in London. “Today we have agreed to strengthen the UN inspection of shipping in order to ensure that all Yemeni ports remain open to the humanitarian and commercial supplies that Yemen’s people so ...

Bloomberg House and Senate negotiators aim to introduce a $1.2 trillion spending bill by Wednesday to avoid potentially messy battles that forced partial government shutdowns in January and February, according to members and aides involved in the talks. Three major obstacles remain: funds for the $12.9 billion Gateway commuter railroad tunnel under the Hudson River between New Jersey and New ...

Bloomberg The Republican chairman of the House Oversight Committee criticised the Trump administration’s response to questions about its vetting and security clearance process following a series of controversies about staff with access to the country’s most classified information. Representative Trey Gowdy’s spokeswoman on the committee, Amanda Gonzalez, said that a five-paragraph letter sent to the committee by White House Director ...

Bloomberg South Korean President Moon Jae-in tried to tamp down expectations for his planned summit with Kim Jong Un, as he prepared to send envoys to Washington to discuss their meeting with the North Korean leader. “This is just a start, and we can’t be optimistic just yet,” Moon told leaders of five South Korean political parties in Seoul on ...

Bloomberg President Donald Trump said Russia had “no impact on our votes” in the last presidential election and vowed to prevent any interference in the upcoming congressional elections. “We’ve actually been working very hard on the ‘18 election,” Trump said during a press conference at the White House with Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven. He added that the US would ...

Bloomberg Strikes protesting Ethiopia’s state of emergency spread across the restive Oromia region ahead of US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s arrival for talks with the Horn of Africa nation’s embattled government. The closing of shops and roads by members of Ethiopia’s largest ethnic group is the latest sign of discontent in Oromia state, where unrest has prompted the country’s ...

Bloomberg Voters in Sierra Leone are going to the polls to elect a successor for President Ernest Bai Koroma in a campaign where an unprecedented number of political parties is making the outcome too close to call. As Koroma nears the end of his second five-year term, 16 parties are competing in the elections in the West African nation. His ...