Politics

Bloomberg India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi warned countrymen against taking the law into their own hands in the name of religion, political ideology, faith of a person or culture. Modi spoke in the wake of large-scale rioting and arson in parts of northern India as thousands of followers protested a court ruling that convicted religious leader Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh ...

DUBAI / Reuters Gunmen from both groups in a strained civil war alliance withdrew from streets in the Yemeni capital on Sunday after trading fire in unprecedented violence, officials from the two groups said. The clash late on Saturday between members of the Houthi movement and loyalists of a powerful former president killed at least three combatants and marked a ...

BAGHDAD / Reuters France will help reconstruction and reconciliation efforts in Iraq as it emerges from a war against IS, French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said after talks with Iraqi officials in Baghdad. France is a main partner in the US-led coalition helping Baghdad fight the militants who seized parts of Iraq and Syria in 2014. The coalition provided ...

Bloomberg President Donald Trump pardoned former Arizona county sheriff Joe Arpaio, using his first act of presidential clemency to give reprieve to a political supporter known — and criminally convicted — for his tough crackdown on illegal immigration. “Sheriff Joe Arpaio is now eighty-five years old, and after more than fifty years of admirable service to our Nation, he is ...

Bloomberg Angola’s main opposition party, the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola, or Unita, said that provisional results that gave the ruling party a majority of the votes in an election earlier this week weren’t valid. “The country doesn’t yet have valid electoral results,” Isaias Samakuva, the leader of Unita, said at a press conference in Viana, on ...

Bloomberg Harvey became the strongest hurricane to hit Texas in more than 50 years, making landfall in the heart of the US energy sector and bringing the danger of a life-threatening storm surge. Harvey came ashore as a Category 4 storm between Port Aransas and Port O’Connor, Texas, packing gusts strong enough to strip the roof off houses and menacing ...

Bloomberg President Nicolas Maduro summoned holders of Venezuelan bonds to a meeting with Economy Minister Ramon Lobo next week to discuss the effects of US sanctions aimed at sovereign and state oil company debt. US-based holders of Venezuela bonds will be hurt the most by the sanctions, Maduro said. President Donald Trump “burned the bonds in their hands” by trying ...

Bloomberg German Social Democratic challenger Martin Schulz returned to his European Union roots in a speech to several thousand supporters in Frankfurt, accusing Angela Merkel of souring relations with EU allies and being unacceptably vague on plans for euro-area integration. Speaking on the German financial capital’s Roemerberg square in the shadow of the financial capital’s medieval city hall, the former ...

Bloomberg North Korea fired three short-range ballistic missiles on Saturday morning, a move that came after Kim Jong Un’s regime strongly criticized US-South Korea joint military drills. US Pacific Command said afternoon that two of the missiles flew 250 kilometers (155 miles), clarifying an earlier statement that an initial assessment had indicated they failed in flight. The other appeared to ...

TAL AFAR / Reuters Iraqi forces have dislodged IS from 70 percent of Tal Afar, a stronghold of the militants in northwestern Iraq, including its central citadel neighborhood, officials and military commanders said on Saturday. “Seventy percent of the city has been liberated…. God willing, the remaining part will be liberated soon,” Iraqi Foreign Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari said at a ...