Politics

  Bloomberg Ukraine is approaching the winter months with blackouts spreading across the country, as Russia’s missile campaign pummels power stations, grid networks and other civilian facilities. More than 10 million Ukrainians —about a quarter of the pre-war population — are without electricity, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said in his overnight address Thursday, as the first snow fell in the capital ...

  Bloomberg Republicans plan to kill a special committee focused on climate change when they take control of the House next year, the top GOP member of the panel said. “The climate crisis committee will not exist,” Louisiana Representative Garret Graves, the top GOP member of the House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis, said in an interview. “I don’t ...

Bloomberg Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said taking back Crimea, which was annexed by Russia in 2014, as well as the country’s long-occupied eastern Donbas region are conditions for bringing the nine-month war to an end. “A simple ceasefire won’t do the trick,” Zelenskiy said in a video interview at the Bloomberg New Economy Forum in Singapore. “Unless we liberate our ...

Bloomberg Chinese President Xi Jinping confronted Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at the Group of 20 summit, accusing him of leaking details of a private meeting — an unusually candid glimpse of Xi’s interactions with other world leaders. “Everything we discussed was leaked to the newspapers. That’s not appropriate, and that’s not the way our conversation was conducted, right?” Xi ...

Bloomberg Singapore’s prime minister-in-waiting said the meeting between US President Joe Biden and Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping was “a good start” as Asian leaders greet diplomatic efforts between the top two economies with guarded optimism. Deputy Prime Minister Lawrence Wong, 49, said in an interview with Bloomberg News Editor-in-Chief John Micklethwait that the meeting between the two leaders was “important ...

  Bloomberg South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte discussed ways to enhance economic security ties, seeking cooperation in the chip industry after US export curbs to China rattled the global semiconductor market. The two “underscored the significance of further strengthening existing collaboration between the two countries’ semiconductor industries and expressed their intention to support ...

Bloomberg Nato and Poland’s leaders said there is no indication that a missile that struck Polish territory late Tuesday was an intentional Russian attack as governments in the military alliance moved to defuse the incident. “Our preliminary analysis suggests that the incident was likely caused by a Ukrainian air defense missile fired to defend Ukrainian territory against Russian cruise missile ...

Bloomberg A barrage of missile attacks targeted Kyiv and other locations across Ukraine, hitting civilians and critical infrastructure in what authorities called the broadest such assault since Russia invaded the country in February. At least one person was killed as residential buildings were struck in Kyiv, with strikes cutting the power supply to roughly half of the capital’s residents, Mayor ...

Bloomberg President Joe Biden had a brief, unannounced meeting Tuesday with Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The two men met on the sidelines of the Group of 20 summit in Bali, Indonesia. Turkish media posted pictures of them together on Twitter, but the White House didn’t announce the meeting in advance and US journalists accompanying Biden to the G-20 weren’t ...

Bloomberg Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese hailed a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday as a move toward normalizing ties that have spiraled in recent years. “This was another important step towards the stabilization of the Australia-China relationship,” Albanese said in a statement after meeting Xi in Bali on the sidelines of the Group of 20 summit for ...