Politics

Bloomberg Workers from South Africa’s biggest labour group joined a one-day strike in cities across the nation’s nine provinces to protest against corruption that it says is thriving under President Jacob Zuma’s administration. The Wednesday shutdown marks a new low in relations between Zuma and the 1.7-million-member Congress of South African Trade Unions, which helped him win control of the ...

Bloomberg President Donald Trump was rebuffed by the same Alabama voters who turned out en masse for him in November when they rejected his choice for the US Senate in favour of an unabashed religious conservative who ran against the Washington establishment. Roy Moore, a former chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court who was removed from office for his ...

Bloomberg Kenya’s main opposition group began protests in the capital to press its demand for changes to the electoral commission before next month’s presidential election rerun, as it accused the body of working with the ruling Jubilee Party to prepare another fraudulent vote. Police fired teargas to disperse hundreds of National Super Alliance supporters who gathered outside the Independent Electoral ...

Bloomberg Ugandan authorities told broadcasters to stop airing some live coverage as the East African nation nears a parliamentary debate on a constitutional amendment that would let President Yoweri Museveni attempt to extend his three-decade rule. The Uganda Communications Commission directed all broadcasters to refrain from airing “live feeds which are in breach of the minimum broadcasting standards,” according to ...

Bloomberg The US has gamed out four or five different scenarios for how the crisis with North Korea will be resolved, and “some are uglier than others,” National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster said as tensions remain high between the two countries. While McMaster said the threat from Pyongyang is “much further advanced” than anticipated and the Pentagon said the president ...

Bloomberg UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn agrees with finance spokesman, John McDonnell: The main opposition party should prepare for a run on the pound and capital flight from Britain should it take power. “John is right to look at all these scenarios because if we’re going to move into government we need to know what we’re going to do,” Corbyn ...

Bloomberg Millions of Iraq’s Kurds voted in an historic referendum on independence on Monday, defying the dire warnings from neighbors as well as the government in Baghdad—who must now decide how far to retaliate to an expected landslide in favour of secession. Though the ballot was limited to areas under the control of the semi-autonomous Kurdistan Regional Government in northern ...

Bloomberg No matter what Brexit might have in store for foreigners, the UK remains a powerful magnet for youth from Italy and Greece looking for a job and a better future. It’s less so for their peers in Spain and Portugal. That’s according to the latest data on the UK national insurance number from the London-based Office for National Statistics ...

Bloomberg The surge in support for Germany’s anti-immigrant party in weekend elections is a stark reminder of the fault line that cuts through the European Union. Chancellor Angela Merkel starts a fourth term with her victory tainted by the far-right AfD entering parliament for the first time after a particularly strong showing in former East Germany. Next door, the Czechs ...

Bloomberg Iraqi Kurds went to the polls on Monday for a referendum on independence, ignoring dire warnings from Baghdad as well as neighbours fearful that the vote will bolster the cause of Kurdish nationalism across the region. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan delivered his gravest threat to date after balloting began, hinting at a shutdown of oil exports that the ...