Politics

Bloomberg Rwanda’s police said they arrested an activist barred from running for the presidency and two family members for alleged offenses against state security and forgery. Diane Rwigara, her mother and sister were arrested Saturday after the East African nation’s police “uncovered credible evidence linking the trio to offenses against state security,” the force said in a statement on its ...

Bloomberg Theresa May’s hope of uniting her Conservative Party behind an agreed position on Brexit seemed to be in danger only two days after she set it out, with reports that Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson was unhappy about aspects of her proposed transition as the UK leaves the European Union. Allies of Johnson said his hints last week that he ...

Bloomberg North Korea’s foreign minister unleashed a torrent of criticism at the United Nations General Assembly in response to President Donald Trump’s speech at the same venue, saying Pyongyang is ready for a preemptive nuclear attack if needed. Ri Yong Ho’s comments came hours after US Air Force bombers flew over international waters east of North Korea, and a tremor ...

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 ...