Politics

Bloomberg President Donald Trump urged Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to purchase US military equipment to create jobs in America after telling business leaders that Japan had an unfair advantage on trade. In a joint press briefing with Abe in Tokyo on Monday, Trump hailed the US-Japan alliance even as he called for a reduction in the trade gap between the ...

Bloomberg Ousted Catalan president Carles Puigdemont was released after less than a day in custody as a court in Brussels considers how to respond to a Spanish demand for his arrest. Puigdemont and four former members of his government are barred from leaving Belgium without the court’s consent and must comply with all summons made by judicial or police authorities, ...

BEIRUT / Reuters Lebanon’s president stressed that stability is “a red line” after the prime minister’s shock resignation, Justice Minister Salim Jreissati said on Monday after meeting the president. Saudi King Salman received Lebanese Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri in Riyadh on Monday, two days after he quit, Saudi-owned al-Arabiya television reported. In a televised speech, Hariri had said he feared ...

Bloomberg Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe signaled a worsening split in his ruling party ahead of elections next year by announcing he’s prepared to fire his deputy, Emmerson Mnangagwa. Mugabe issued the threat at a rally in the southern African nation’s second biggest city, Bulawayo, a day before his wife Grace announced she’s prepared to succeed the president, who’s ruled Zimbabwe ...

Bloomberg The Democratic Republic of Congo will hold delayed presidential elections on December 23, 2018, the electoral commission said, a year later than opponents of President Joseph Kabila have demanded. National and provincial parliamentary polls will take place on the same date, Independent Electoral Commission Rapporteur Jean-Pierre Kalamba told reporters in the capital, Kinshasa. A series of other votes including ...

Bloomberg President Donald Trump warned nations against challenging the US as he rallied American tro- ops in Japan on the first stop of his 12-day tour of Asia. Speaking to US and Japanese military personnel on Sunday at Yokota Air Base in western Tokyo, Trump said he would push for freedom in the region and fair trade in meetings with ...

Bloomberg Ousted Catalan President Carles Puigdemont and four other regional ministers who have outstanding arrest warrants presented themselves voluntarily to Belgian police on Sunday, the VRT public broadcaster reported. Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy invoked constitutional powers last month to reassert his authority over Catalonia and fire Puigdemont and his government. Since then, eight politicians and two activists have been ...

Bloomberg Slovaks voted for independent and opposition candidates in regional elections, delivering a surprise defeat to the popular ruling party and the far right forces in the post-communist European Union member. Premier Robert Fico’s Smer party will lead two of eight regional governments after four of its incumbent candidates lost their races, according to the results of the ballot posted ...

Bloomberg Six months ago Sao Paulo Mayor Joao Doria revealed unbridled presidential ambitions, travelling the country and the world professing an aggressive pro-market agenda and a management style with the slogan “Speed It Up.” In an interview in his Sao Paulo office this week he struck a more humble, down-to-earth tone, talking about the need to do more in his ...

Bloomberg Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe wouldn’t hesitate to dismiss Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa from his post and said that Mnangagwa’s supporters should form their own party if they don’t want Mugabe to lead the country. “If I made a mistake by appointing Mnangagwa, tell me. I will remove him,” Mugabe told a rally in the city of Bulawayo that was ...