Politics

  Bloomberg Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said he called his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping on Wednesday “at the behest” of US President Donald Trump to discuss China’s role in promoting peace on the Korean peninsula. In a televised speech from Davao City on Thursday, Duterte said Trump, in a call at the weekend, asked whether Xi “could do something about ...

  Bloomberg Bulgaria’s parliament gave the go-ahead to Prime Minister Boyko Borissov to head his third government in eight years, though uncertainty remains as to whether his coalition with a loose alliance of nationalist parties will last to serve a full term. Lawmakers voted 133-101, without abstentions, to back the Gerb party’s cabinet with the United Patriots, Parliament Speaker Dimitar ...

  Bloomberg Russian President Vladimir Putin continued his diplomatic push for a plan to establish safe zones in Syria backed by peacekeepers as he began talks with Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan in the Black Sea resort of Sochi on Wednesday. Russia and Turkey can “change the destiny of the whole region” together, Erdogan told Putin, who said relations between ...

  Bloomberg President Donald Trump welcomed Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas to the White House on Wednesday as the U.S. president weighs how to approach a Middle East conflict that has eluded resolution for seven decades. “It’s a great honor to have the president with us,” Trump said in an Oval Office photo session with reporters. “Hopefully something terrific can ...

  Bloomberg Prime Minister Theresa May struck back at European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, accusing his team of leaking details of their Brexit discussions to sabotage Britain’s election. Standing outside her 10 Downing Street office — after returning from visiting Queen Elizabeth II to mark the formal start of the campaign — May expressed her fury at seeing a long ...

  Bloomberg US President Donald Trump said he would meet with Kim Jong Un amid heightened tensions over North Korea’s nuclear weapons program if the circumstances were right. “If it would be appropriate for me to meet with him, I would absolutely, I would be honored to do it,” Trump said on Monday in an Oval Office interview with Bloomberg ...

  Bloomberg German Chancellor Angela Merkel told President Vladimir Putin that European Union sanctions will have to remain on Russia, in a chilly encounter in the Black Sea resort of Sochi that exposed their differences on issues from Ukraine and human rights in Chechnya to Russian electoral interference. Addressing a joint press conference with Putin after about two hours of ...

  Bloomberg U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May alluded to the leaked details of her disastrous dinner with Jean-Claude Juncker to remind voters that Brexit talks will be tough and she alone is up to the task. Germany’s Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung newspaper on Sunday said that the European Commission president left the April 26 talks at Downing Street shocked at May’s ...

  Bloomberg The US is considering a range of options, from expanded economic sanctions to military operations, as it reaches out to allies in confronting North Korea’s latest provocations, according to a senior Trump administration official. North Korea’s ballistic missile test early Saturday was in “open defiance” of the international community, and the risk to the U.S. will not be ...

  Bloomberg Venezuelans prepared for demonstrations to mark International Workers’ Day after clashes last month left dozens dead and pushed Pope Francis to renew his call for a negotiated solution to the crisis embroiling the South American country. The opposition will rally from 26 points across Caracas on a hot, rainy day in a march being promoted on social media ...