Politics

Bloomberg Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi arrived in Mosul to declare it liberated from IS, three years after the city’s abrupt fall to the extremists alerted the world to the group’s growing strength, territorial ambitions and barbarity. Al-Abadi congratulated the Iraqi people and fighters on a “great victory” after the last pockets under IS control were retaken, according to a ...

Bloomberg US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed to impose a new cease-fire in southwest Syria in a bid towards resolving that nation’s intractable civil war, trying again to cooperate in an area where the two countries have repeatedly failed. Speaking after Trump and Putin met at the Group of 20 summit in Hamburg, Germany, Secretary of ...

Bloomberg Australia will press ahead with a missile defense program to protect its forces, but a US shield system isn’t appropriate, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said. The Terminal High Altitude Area Defense, or THAAD, system mentioned in recent briefings is “not really suitable for our situation,” Turnbull told reporters at the Group of 20 Summit on Friday. The meeting in ...

Bloomberg Things might have been a little awkward when Chinese President Xi Jinping and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi saw each other on the sidelines of the Group of 20 meeting in Germany. Far from the plush leaders events in Hamburg, China and India are facing the resurgence of a decades-long dispute over a remote area of the Himalayas. The ...

Bloomberg Two US strategic bombers led a joint military exercise in South Korea on Saturday in response to this week’s launch by North Korea of an intercontinental ballistic missile capable of striking Alaska. The B-1B Lancers, deployed from the US base in Guam, conducted an air-to-surface firing drill in Gangwon province, near the border with North Korea, the US Air ...

Bloomberg UK Prime Minister Theresa May is planning to relaunch her political mission to deliver Brexit and help ordinary working people, as she tries to put last month’s disastrous election result behind her, according to a senior government official. May is lining up significant interventions in the next week, including a major speech, setting out her commitment to social and ...

Bloomberg Venezuela’s Supreme Court said early Saturday that the country’s most renowned political prisoner, opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez, was transferred from military prison to house arrest after three years in jail. Lopez, who’s been serving an almost 14-year sentence for allegedly inciting violence in a wave of protests against President Nicolas Maduro, left the Ramo Verde facility outside Caracas, where ...

Bloomberg The United Nations Security Council was to hold an emergency meeting later Wednesday after the US confirmed North Korea’s rocket launch on July 4 was its first intercontinental ballistic missile. As North Korean leader Kim Jong Un bragged about sending more “gifts” to US President Donald Trump, South Korea and the US announced on Wednesday they had conducted a ...

Bloomberg Hamburg police skirmished with protesters ahead of this week’s Group of 20 summit, days before world leaders gather for the meeting hosted by Chancellor Angela Merkel. Police unleashed water cannon on demonstrators in Hamburg’s St. Pauli district late Monday after activists had set up camps for people gearing up to protest the G-20 meeting on Friday and Saturday, according ...

Bloomberg Estonian President Kersti Kaljulaid criticized politicians who pursue divisive political campaigns and disregard facts, setting the tone a day before she meets US President Donald Trump. Leaders who win office with the help of “post-truth” campaigns but can’t deliver on their promises will see their governments fail, Kaljulaid told a conference in the Latvian capital, Riga, Wednesday. From there, ...