Politics

Bloomberg New Zealand Prime Minister Bill English has claimed a mandate to form the next government after winning the biggest slice of the vote in Saturday’s election, even as opposition leader Jacinda Ardern refuses to concede defeat. While English’s ruling National Party fell short of a majority and will need the support of the nationalist New Zealand First Party to ...

Bloomberg ­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­ North Korea struck back at US President Donald Trump’s threats to destroy it, with Kim Jong Un warning of the “highest level of hard-line countermeasure in history” and his foreign minister suggesting that could include testing a hydrogen bomb in the Pacific Ocean. Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho spoke to reporters in New York, where he is attending ...

Bloomberg The Spanish government is tightening its control over the regional police in Catalonia after evidence emerged that the Catalans’ 17,000-strong force may not be fully committed to helping quash an illegal independence referendum planned for October 1. Prosecutors on Saturday ordered a unit of the central government’s Interior Ministry to coordinate the operations of the Civil Guard, the National ...

Bloomberg UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said he is “extremely concerned” by reports that Iran tested a missile, saying the action was inconsistent with United Nations resolutions. He urged the nation to halt “such provocative acts.” Johnson made comments on his Twitter account, after Press TV reported that Iran had successfully test-fired a new ballistic missile. The missile was unveiled ...

Bloomberg President Donald Trump is weighing replacing his ban on travellers entering the US from six predominantly Muslim nations with a set of more specific and tailored restrictions based, in part, on how much information countries share with the US. The Department of Homeland Security has sent Trump recommendations for entry restrictions and additional visa requirements based on shortcomings in ...

Bloomberg Britain and the European Union are set to resume Brexit negotiations next week after UK Prime Minister Theresa May broke the stalemate in the hope that the real arguments can now begin. In a major speech that drew guarded praise from Brussels, May signalled for the first time that she’ll be ready to discuss the amount of money the ...

Bloomberg President Donald Trump told world leaders in his first address to the United Nations that North Korea’s pursuit of nuclear weapons is a suicide mission that will lead to its destruction if not stopped by collective action by the rest of the world. Trump delivered unusually stark denunciations of both North Korea and Iran, telling his audience—including officials from ...

Bloomberg Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, said his scheduled closed-door appearance before the Senate Intelligence Committee was postponed at the panel’s request. Cohen, who has a long relationship with the president, told reporters on Capitol Hill on Tuesday he will return to answer questions. “I’ll be back and look forward to giving all the information” that the committee ...

Bloomberg A United Nations commission urged the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate possible crimes against humanity committed in Burundi, saying it had compiled a list of alleged perpetrators of violence during the country’s two-year crisis. The UN Commission of Inquiry on Burundi has reasonable grounds to believe “serious human-rights violations and abuses” have been committed in the East African ...

Bloomberg UK Prime Minister Theresa May is locked in a battle with Boris Johnson that could alter the course of her Brexit strategy, with her top diplomat dangling the option of stepping down. The Daily Telegraph, a Conservative-leaning newspaper for which Johnson used to write, reported that he was ready to resign before the weekend if May embraces a “Swiss ...