Politics

Bloomberg Jacob Zuma is fighting to remain South Africa’s president as the top leadership of the ruling African National Congress resumed its debate of a proposal to recommend his removal from office. The debate started on Saturday in the capital, Pretoria, according to five members of the party’s national executive committee who asked not to be identified because they aren’t ...

Bloomberg Prime Minister Theresa May said her government would set up a commission to combat non-violent extremism and promote “pluralistic” British values and women’s rights, as the fight against terrorism becomes a focus of the election campaign. The proposed Commission for Countering Extremism, introduced in the Conservative manifesto earlier this month, would have legal status and advise the government on ...

Bloomberg Egypt carried out air strikes against militants across the border in Libya, saying they targeted the group responsible for a deadly attack on Christians earlier on Friday. At least 29 people, some of them children, were killed when gunmen in military fatigues opened fire on a bus carrying members of the Coptic Christian minority in Minya province, about 200 ...

Bloomberg Flailing in yet another political crisis, Brazil is once more looking to its judges for salvation. This time, they could determine the fate of its president, Michel Temer. On June 6, Brazil’s top electoral court, the TSE, is due to resume its judgement of the 2014 election campaign that could see Temer ousted from office. Aides say the president ...

Bloomberg Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn held back from declaring support for Britain’s nuclear weapons program and for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization as his security credentials came under examination in a BBC television interview, two weeks before the general election. Corbyn was asked repeatedly whether he supported the renewal of Britain’s nuclear weapons system, known as Trident, and nine times ...

Bloomberg Soldiers were deployed on the streets of London on Wednesday, as police hunted down the network behind the Manchester suicide bomber and authorities warned another attack was “imminent.” Manchester’s police chief, Ian Hopkins, said it’s “very clear” that police are investigating a “network” responsible for the attack that killed 22 people including children at a pop concert in the ...

Bloomberg Brazil’s President Michel Temer is struggling to put down a rebel movement by legislators in his own party who are discussing his replacement after damaging graft allegations surfaced. The best solution to remove Temer, who is being investigated by the prosecutor-general on corruption and cover-up charges, is for the top electoral court to annul the 2014 election result in ...

Bloomberg Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said he might expand martial law nationwide if violence currently confined to the south spreads to the main island of Luzon. “If I think IS has already taken control in Luzon and terrorism is not really far behind, I might declare martial law throughout the country,” Duterte said in a televised speech on Wednesday after ...

Bloomberg Prime Minister Theresa May vowed to combat the “ideology” behind Britain’s worst terrorist attack in 12 years after a suicide bombing killed 22 people at a pop concert. IS claimed responsibility. Campaigning for next month’s general election was suspended indefinitely. In her first public appearance since the bombing, May said many children died in an act of “cold calculation” ...

Bloomberg South Korea’s military fired warning shots across the military demarcation line at an unidentified object flying on Tuesday afternoon, as tensions remained high on the peninsula days after another North Korea missile test. The military is analyzing the object’s flight path, South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a text message. Yonhap News reported that South Korea fired ...