Politics

Bloomberg Seven people were killed in an attack on a popular London nightlife spot as terrorism struck Britain for the second time in as many weeks, just days before a national election. A van swerved into Saturday-night crowds on London Bridge, before three men got out and went on a stabbing rampage through nearby bars. Metropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick ...

Bloomberg Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said the US-backed operation to drive IS from its Raqqa stronghold in Syria has begun, state-run Anadolu news agency reported. The offensive started on the night of June 2 and the US notified Turkey beforehand, Yildirim told reporters, Anadolu said on Sunday. US Army Colonel Ryan S. Dillon, a spokesman for the US-backed coalition ...

Bloomberg German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s chief of staff, Peter Altmaier, said Europe will move forward with countries such as China and India after the U.S. pulled out of the Paris climate treaty. “The U.S. exit from the climate accord is a major setback,” Altmaier wrote in a guest op-ed in Bild am Sonntag newspaper published on Sunday. “Even in the ...

Bloomberg The response to President Donald Trump’s announcement he was exiting the Paris climate accord and wanted to renegotiate on his terms was immediate: The leaders of France, Germany and Italy said no. On Wall Street, corporate executives pilloried the businessman president. Goldman Sachs’ CEO tweeted for the first time, calling the move a setback for the world. Tesla Inc.’s ...

Bloomberg The White House is reviewing whether to invoke executive privilege to prevent former FBI Director James Comey from testifying before a congressional panel next week. Comey is scheduled to testify on Thursday before the Senate Intelligence Committee about his May 9 firing by President Donald Trump. The panel is investigating Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election and whether ...

Bloomberg The final television event of Britain’s general election campaign saw both Prime Minister Theresa May and her main challenger, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, take a pummeling from angry voters. May has refused to directly debate Corbyn, and so the BBC’s “Question Time” featured the two leaders consecutively, with the prime minister going first. There was no gentle warming up, ...

Bloomberg A suicide truck bomb in Kabul killed as many as 80 people and wounded 350 on Wednesday morning near a diplomatic enclave in the worst attack on the Afghan capital in 10 months. The explosion happened near the German embassy about 8:25 a.m. in the Wazir Akbar Khan area, a busy neighborhood that’s home to the presidential palace and ...

Bloomberg Russia attacked IS targets in Syria with cruise missiles fired from a warship and submarine, the Defense Ministry in Moscow said. The Admiral Essen frigate and the Krasnodar submarine, operating in the Mediterranean Sea, hit sites around the Syrian city of Palmyra with four Kalibr missiles, the ministry said in a statement on Wednesday. The US, Turkey and Israel ...

Bloomberg A top White House official announced his resignation on Tuesday after less than three months on the job, a dire start to President Donald Trump’s first week back in Washington following a nine-day trip overseas. “It has been my great honor to serve President Trump and this administration,” Communications Director Mike Dubke said in a statement after Trump adviser ...

Bloomberg UK Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn is dominating the British election campaign—for good and bad—with just over a week left before voters choose a government to negotiate Brexit. A dramatic 24 hours culminated in a poll suggesting the election could produce no clear winner, pushing sterling lower. On Tuesday, Corbyn forgot the cost of a key childcare policy during ...