Politics

  Bloomberg Russia said it will hold talks with the US from late November to early December in Cairo about inspections of atomic weapons sites under the New START treaty, a first step toward reviving broader arms-control talks suspended since the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The consultations in the Egyptian capital will last about a week, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister ...

Bloomberg President Joe Biden’s top national security aide said the US will brief Taiwanese officials on the president’s upcoming meeting with China’s Xi Jinping and expressed confidence that Taipei would feel secure about its support from the US. “I’m confident that they will feel very secure and comfortable in the United States, his position when it comes to our support ...

  Bloomberg South Korea’s military said the country has maintained its position of not sending lethal arms to Ukraine, after the Wall Street Journal reported Seoul struck a secret deal with the US that would supply Kyiv with artillery. The Defense Ministry said in a text message sent to reporters Friday negotiations are underway between a South Korean company and ...

  Bloomberg Indonesian President Joko Widodo has proposed to leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations that representatives of the Myanmar military be barred from the bloc’s functions beyond big ticket summits. Leaders belonging to the 10 nation grouping debated the issue “at length” he said, in the strongest sign yet that some Asean members are growing frustrated by ...

US President Joe Biden vowed to make no “fundamental concessions” in his first in-person summit with China’s Xi Jinping, reinforcing already low expectations for any major breakthrough in strained ties between the world’s two largest economies. The two presidents are expected to meet next week on the sidelines of the Group of 20 summit in Bali, Indonesia. Xi’s last meeting ...

In the latest reflection of the Kremlin’s expanding war effort, bomb shelters across Russia are being brought back to life after more than three decades of neglect since the end of the Cold War. State workers are quietly checking basements and other protected facilities, repairing and cleaning installations not used since the Soviet era, according to people familiar with the ...

Russia ordered its troops to leave Ukraine’s city of Kherson, the first major regional center seized in its invasion, in a highly symbolic setback for President Vladimir Putin. With Kyiv’s forces pressing their counteroffensive in the region bordering occupied Crimea, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu in a televised briefing Wednesday ordered the troops to withdraw from the western bank of ...

Vladimir Putin won’t attend the Group of 20 summit next week, people familiar with the planning said, as the Kremlin seeks to protect the president from potential high-level tensions over his invasion of Ukraine. Ending months of suspense, Putin’s decision avoids potential confrontations with other world leaders, including US president Joe Biden who has labeled the Russian president a “war ...

US voters delivered a mixed verdict in elections shaped by inflation and splits around social issues, with Republicans headed toward control of the US House, but by smaller margins than forecast. With polls closed across most of the US, some of the bellwether races that Republicans had hoped to snatch were held by Democrats. In one of their biggest wins ...

Hungary denied it’s holding up the Nato entry bids of Finland and Sweden as part of its fight over billions of euros in European Union aid but won’t vote on expanding the military alliance until it passes laws tied to the cash. Finland and Sweden, which are also EU members, will cast votes when the bloc decides next month on ...