Politics

Bloomberg The opposition Czech Social Democratic Party picked parliamentary Deputy Speaker Jan Hamacek as its new chairman, opening the way for government talks with billionaire Prime Minister Andrej Babis whose ANO party is struggling to find ruling partners. Hamacek, 39, beat Jiri Zimola for the post, with both saying they were ready to negotiate with ANO about potential cooperation. While ...

Bloomberg South African mining companies agreed to postpone a legal challenge to the government’s controversial new rules for the industry after President Cyril Ramaphosa said he’s committed to finding a solution to the dispute. The presidency held talks with the Chamber of Mines lobby group following Ramaphosa’s state-of-the-nation speech, both sides said in statements. The postponement “serves to allow parties ...

Bloomberg As tensions escalate between Russia and the US, the nuclear-armed former Cold War rivals are risking the future of decades-old arms control agreements that have helped to keep a strategic balance and prevent the risk of accidental war. The conflict played out at a global security conference in Germany where Russia aired grievances about the US and the Trump ...

Bloomberg President Donald Trump rebuked his national security adviser, H.R. McMaster, saying in a tweet that his aide had neglected to defend his 2016 victory when discussing US claims that Russia meddled in the election. “General McMaster forgot to say that the results of the 2016 election were not impacted or changed by the Russians and that the only Collusion ...

Bloomberg President Donald Trump has criticized the FBI after the agency disclosed that it failed to follow up on a detailed warning about the 19-year-old gunman who is charged with killing 17 people and wounding a dozen others at a Florida high school on Wednesday. “Very sad that the FBI missed all of the many signals sent out by the ...

Bloomberg Investing in Iran is like “cutting a check” to the country’s Revolutionary Guards, a group labeled as a terrorist organization by the US, according to President Donald Trump’s national security adviser. Speaking at a security conference on Saturday, National Security Adviser H.R McMaster also took aim at the North Korean regime and said now is the time to cut ...

Bloomberg UK Prime Minister Theresa May proposed keeping Britain in total alignment with the European Union’s data-sharing rules after Brexit, something that would allow both intelligence agencies and business to continue to share information across borders. The UK regards the EU’s data rules, which are crucial to both companies and security agencies, as one of its successes within the bloc ...

Bloomberg Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull declared he can “absolutely” continue working with his deputy after the pair met in a bid to avoid fracturing the coalition government amid the fallout from Barnaby Joyce’s extramarital affair with a former staffer. “It’s always very important to meet, to work through the various challenges and issues that we face, but the important ...

Bloomberg The battle within Prime Minister Theresa May’s cabinet over the shape of the Brexit trade deal they want to strike with the European Union is still raging—but the front line has moved. According to two senior UK officials, the warring sides of ardent Brexit campaigners and pro-Europeans within May’s team are now fighting over how the new rules that ...

Bloomberg Achieving a summit between the two Koreas will be difficult even after positive gestures made by the north during the Winter Olympic Games, according to South Korean President Moon Jae-in. During a visit on the eighth day of the Olympics, Moon reiterated his government’s goal to turn the games into an event promoting peace and told reporters that North ...