Politics

Bloomberg The Turkish army kicked off a military drill near the border with Iraq’s Kurdish region, underscoring Turkey’s threat to do whatever it deems necessary against an Iraqi Kurdish independence referendum scheduled for next week. Dozens of Turkish tanks dotted an open field just a few kilometres from the Iraqi border on Monday, according to footage on CNN-Turk television. Erdogan, ...

Bloomberg ­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­ UK lawmakers called for Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson to be fired after he threw himself back into the Brexit debate with a newspaper article that was seen as undercutting Prime Minister Theresa May days before she is set to refresh her own strategy for the split. Writing in the Daily Telegraph a day after a failed bomb attack ...

Bloomberg The Gaza Strip’s militant Hamas rulers said they were ready to take key steps meant to allow the reunification of the rival Palestinian governments. The group said it agreed to dismantle the administrative committee that runs Gaza and hold nationwide elections. It asked the West Bank-based government of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to return to Gaza, which Hamas ...

Bloomberg Hurricane Jose churned towards the US Northeast and could cause swells along the coast by midweek, according to the National Hurricane Center, while Norma is aiming for Mexico’s Baja California and a new system is gathering strength in the Caribbean as a busy tropical weather season grinds on. Jose was about 675 kilometres south-southeast of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. ...

Bloomberg The UK arrested a second suspect in connection with the blast on a commuter train as London’s counter-terrorism police widened their investigation into the attack that injured at least 30 people. The UK threat level remained at critical. Police arrested a 21-year-old man in Hounslow, southwest London, late Saturday, the Metropolitan Police said in a statement. He was being ...

Bloomberg Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe may hold a snap general election next month, local media reported, a move that would allow him to seize on opposition disarray and growing support for his handling of the North Korea crisis. Abe appears increasingly inclined to call an election amid a recovery in public support following a spate of scandals, public broadcaster ...

Bloomberg A former Malaysia government minister who shifted allegiance to the opposition has returned to the ruling party, according to Prime Minister Najib Razak. Muhammad Muhammad Taib, known as Mat Taib, is rejoining the United Malays National Organisation from the People’s Justice Party, or PKR, Najib told. Local reports earlier in the day said a “major announcement” would be made, ...

Bloomberg ­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­ President Donald Trump will embark on a whirlwind series of meetings next week at the United Nations General Assembly to make two big asks of the world: Stand with us against North Korea, and hold the line against Iran’s nuclear programme. Over the course of four days, beginning on Monday, Trump will engage in a speed round of ...

Bloomberg Police have arrested an 18-year-old man on the UK southeast coast in connection with the detonation of an improvised bomb on a London tube train that injured at least 29 people. The man was arrested in the port area of Dover, a major ferry hub for travel to France, on Saturday and is being held under a section of ...

Bloomberg British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson threw himself back into the Brexit debate with a 4,000-word newspaper article just days before Prime Minister Theresa May is set to refresh her own strategy for the split. Writing in the Daily Telegraph, the figurehead of last year’s campaign to leave the European Union outlined what he called a “glorious” vision for the ...