Politics

Bloomberg The citizenship fiasco that’s gripped Australia’s parliament for the past five months and cost Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s government its majority is widening, with two lawmakers from the main opposition Labor party asking the High Court to decide whether they breached the constitution. Katy Gallagher, 47, told the upper house on Wednesday that while she believed she had taken ...

Bloomberg Rafael Ramirez, Venezuela’s ambassador to the United Nations since 2014 and former Petroleos de Venezuela head, resigned from his post amid a string of arrests at the oil giant he used to run, he said in a tweet. “This was a very hard decision to make,” he wrote in attached photos of a letter addressed to Jorge Arreaza, Venezuela’s ...

Bloomberg President Donald Trump said his plan to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and move the US embassy there is overdue while world leaders from the Vatican to Tehran denounced his stance as risking fresh violence in the region. “It’s long overdue,” Trump told reporters during a Cabinet meeting at the White House Wednesday. “Many presidents have said they want ...

Bloomberg French President Emmanuel Macron’s popularity surged six points to 50 percent in one of the fastest approval rating rebounds for French presidents measured by pollster Ifop, according to Paris Match magazine. Macron, whose rating fell below the 50 percent mark in July, gained most among French conservatives and far-left sympathizers of the France Unbowed political party, according to Ifop. ...

Bloomberg The US would be ready to talk with North Korea if it renounced further nuclear or missile tests and followed through on the pledge, US Ambassador to China Terry Branstad said. “If they announce that they’re not going to be doing any more nuclear tests and they’re not going to be launching any more missiles,” Branstad told Bloomberg Television ...

Bloomberg Saudi Arabian warplanes bombed the presidential palace in Yemen’s capital, stepping up attacks on Houthi rebels after they killed the country’s former president just when he appeared set to switch sides and offer the Saudis a way out of the conflict. The palace in Sana’a, currently used by the Houthi leadership, was pounded by at least seven airstrikes late ...

Bloomberg A divided US Supreme Court let President Donald Trump’s travel ban take full effect while legal challenges go forward, handing him a major vict- ory and suggesting the court ultimately will uphold the restrictions. Trump will now be able to bar or restrict entry by people from six mostly Muslim countries, even if they have a relationship with a ...

Bloomberg Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said he would introduce legislation to limit political meddling by foreign powers, citing reports of Chinese influence over a local lawmaker and Russia’s US election interference. People or organisations acting in the interests of foreign powers would be required to register and disclose their ties, Turnbull said, adding that foreign political donations would also ...

Bloomberg The Catalan election campaign kicks off on Tuesday with polls pointing to a finely balanced race in which turnout could play a crucial role. Surveys show it’s basically a toss-up whether the separatists will cling on to their majority in the regional parliament with the latest projections putting the three pro-independence parties on the cusp of the 68 seats ...

Bloomberg South African Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa won endorsement from most African National Congress branches to succeed President Jacob Zuma as ruling party leader, giving him an edge — but not a guarantee of victory — in this month’s election. Ramaphosa was nominated for the presidency of the ANC by 1,862 branches, while 1,309 backed his main rival Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, ...