Politics

WASHINGTON / Reuters A US appeals court in California let President Donald Trump’s latest travel ban go partially into effect, ruling the government can bar entry of people from six Mus- lim-majority countries with no connections to the United States. A three-judge panel of the San Francisco-based 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals partially granted a Trump administration request to ...

ANKARA / Reuters Iranian officials called off rescue operations, saying there was little chance of finding more survivors from the earthquake that shook parts of western Iran on Sunday, killing at least 530 people, media said on Tuesday. Survivors, many left homeless by the 7.3 magnitude earthquake that struck villages and towns in a mountainous area bordering Iraq, battled overnight ...

Bloomberg Brazilian President Michel Temer is planning a cabinet shakeup to rebuild support for his proposed pension overhaul after the largest ally moved closer to abandoning his government. Cities Minister Bruno Araujo, from the Brazilian Social Democracy Party, or PSDB, handed in his resignation, citing the lack of party support as the reason for his departure. Temer himself considers the ...

Bloomberg UK lawmakers will get a take-it-or-leave-it vote on the final Brexit deal, with their choices limited to accepting the agreement or voting for a chaotic crashing out of the block. And if the government fails to reach a deal, the UK will leave without consulting Parliament, Brexit Secretary David Davis said. The twin announcements provoked jeers in Parliament as ...

Bloomberg A dual-citizenship crisis roiling Australian politics has claimed its eighth lawmaker, with independent Senator Jacqui Lambie resigning after revealing she contravened the constitution. “I probably should have been a bit smarter and checked that citizenship stuff,” Lambie, 46, told reporters in Canberra after it was confirmed she inherited British citizenship from her Scottish-born father. “I don’t know who feels ...

BAGHDAD / ANKARA / Reuters More than 400 people were killed in Iran when a magnitude 7.3 earthquake jolted the country on Sunday, state media said, and rescuers were searching for dozens trapped under rubble in the mountainous area. At least six have died in Iraq as well. State television said more than 407 people were killed in Iran and ...

Bloomberg The UK Labour Party accused Theresa May of lacking the support within her Conservative Party to deliver a Brexit that will protect jobs, offering her a cross-party deal that will only add to pressure on the embattled prime minister. Keir Starmer, the party’s Brexit spokesman, wrote to May on Monday telling her there was a “sensible majority” in Parliament ...

Bloomberg German Chancellor Angela Merkel is entering the final stretch of preliminary talks to form a new government as factions in the complex multi-party negotiations remain far apart on issues including migration, climate and European policy. Entering a fifth week of negotiations between Merkel’s Christian Democrats, her Bavarian CSU sister party, the pro-market Free Democrats and the environmental Greens, the ...

Bloomberg North Korea, a country in a “time warp” that feeds paranoia at home with propaganda about a hostile world, could secure its future by laying the groundwork for talks on its nuclear weapons program, according to South Korea’s foreign minister. While Kang Kyung-wha welcomed a two month hiatus in North Korean provocations after a rapid-fire series of missile tests ...

Bloomberg Political turmoil in Australia risks undermining fragile economic confidence as the loss of another lawmaker in the dual-citizenship fiasco left Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull leading a minority government. John Alexander, 66, became the second government member in the lower house to resign, when he acknowledged he likely inherited British citizenship through his father. While the government will survive with ...