Politics

Bloomberg Donald Trump Jr.’s lawyer acknowledged his client received an email last year offering a meeting with someone who had potentially damaging information on Hillary Clinton, hours after a report that the younger Trump had been told it was part of a Russian effort to help his father’s campaign. The entreaty to President Donald Trump’s eldest son came via email ...

Bloomberg The European Court of Justice may be able to make rulings that apply to the U.K. for a “limited” interim period after Britain’s withdrawal from the European Union, Prime Minister Theresa May’s spokesman said in yet another sign of the government’s softening of the country’s stance on Brexit. “He said the transition rules could involve the ECJ for a ...

Bloomberg The US is backing Sudan’s bid to join the World Trade Organization, a Sudanese official said, days before Washington is due to decide whether to permanently lift some sanctions imposed on the African country two decades ago. “Our team is very much satisfied with the support of the US for Sudan going into the WTO,” Sudanese State Investment Minister ...

Bloomberg Secretary of State Rex Tillerson will travel to Kuwait, Qatar and Saudi Arabia this week to meet with Gulf leaders as the US seeks to help end a standoff that pits US allies against one another. Tillerson will shuttle between Persian Gulf capitals from Monday to Thursday, US State Department spokesman R.C. Hammond said. The diplomacy is part of ...

Bloomberg Soldiers cleared explosives from Mosul’s historic quarter after its liberation all but ended IS presence in Iraq, three years of occupation that left a trail of human misery and devastation that could cost $100 billion to rebuild. Power and water supplies will be restored in the first phase of a 10-year program to rebuild Mosul, much of which was ...

Bloomberg Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta drew criticism from the chief justice and the nation’s top legal body after he questioned the independence of the judiciary over a court ruling in favor of the main opposition. Kenyatta on Sunday said the courts were “increasingly getting entangled” in what he said was the opposition’s attempts to delay elections scheduled for Aug. 8. ...

Bloomberg President Donald Trump’s eldest son met last year with a Russian woman who offered to provide potentially damaging information on Hillary Clinton, his father’s Democratic opponent in the 2016 election. The meeting took place in June 2016, after his father had secured the Republican presidential nomination, according to a statement Sunday from Donald Trump Jr. The younger Trump said ...

Bloomberg The heads of the world’s two largest economies brushed over differences on North Korea and trade as they met in person for the second time. The unlikely diplomatic friendship of President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping seemed to hold firm as the pair met on the sidelines of the Group of 20 meetings in Hamburg. Heading into ...

Bloomberg Russian President Vladimir Putin said he believes Donald Trump agrees with his denial that Russia attempted to interfere in the 2016 US presidential election, which would put the US president at odds with the conclusion of multiple intelligence agencies. Putin and Trump met at the Group of 20 summit in Hamburg for more than two hours. At a press ...

Bloomberg Secretary of State Rex Tillerson visited Ukraine to reaffirm US support for the former Soviet republic following the first meeting between President Donald Trump and Russian leader Vladimir Putin two days earlier. Tillerson said Ukraine, locked in a more-than-three-year conflict with its neighbor over the annexation of Crimea and Russian backing for an insurgency, “has come a long way”. ...