Politics

  Bloomberg President Joe Biden cast Donald Trump as a factor in state-level contests across the country, telling Democrats those were crucial battlegrounds to defend their agenda in November’s elections. “As long as Trump controls the Republican Party, he’s going to have an incredible impact on state legislative bodies,” said Biden at an event in Portland, Oregon, for Tina Kotek, ...

Bloomberg North Korea test-launched a short-range ballistic missile, fired barrages of artillery and flew about 10 warplane near the inter-Korean border, saying its actions were a stern warning to South Korea for recent military moves. The missile was launched at 1:49 a.m. Friday from an area near Pyongyang’s main international airport. It flew for about 700 kilometers (435 miles), hitting ...

Bloomberg Recep Tayyip Erdogan welcomed Vladimir Putin’s proposal to turn Turkey into a regional hub for natural gas, potentially positioning the country as a key route for Russian flows to Europe. The Turkish president met Putin in Kazakhstan on Thursday and they agreed to establish an international gas hub, most likely in the Thrace region bordering Greece and Bulgaria, state-run ...

Bloomberg A Biden administration official said thousands of Venezuelans crossing Central America to try to reach the US should stop where they are or risk getting turned away at the border. “For those who are on the move, I want to tell them to stay where they are. Do not try to enter Mexico and do not try to cross ...

  Bloomberg Sweden’s nationalists won major concessions on crime and immigration from the country’s incoming minority government even after failing to secure seats in the cabinet unveiled on Friday. Ulf Kristersson, the leader of the Moderates and incoming prime minister, said that the coalition taking over from Magdalena Andersson’s Social Democrats will include ministers from his own and two smaller ...

Bloomberg Brazil’s Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and incumbent Jair Bolsonaro campaigned across the northeast of the country on Thursday, with both candidates trying to shore up support among the poor amid signs the presidential race is tightening ahead of the October 30 runoff. Lula, 76, said at an event in the city of Aracaju, capital of Sergipe state, that ...

Bloomberg At least 15 countries mainly of the Nato military alliance, including the U.K. and the Netherlands, have signed a letter of intent to join a long-term German project to create a European anti-missile shield that would boost protection for much of the continent. The system will have several layers to intercept various kinds of missiles from different heights, possibly ...

Bloomberg Italian lawmakers on Thursday elected an ally of right-wing leader Giorgia Meloni as Senate president, in a vote that exposed early rifts within the coalition backing the likely next prime minister. In its first session since the Sept. 25 elections, the Senate chose Ignazio La Russa, a member of Meloni’s Brothers of Italy party, as president, even as lawmakers ...

  Bloomberg Support for Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida dipped in a major poll below the 30% level considered a danger zone for a premier, as voters have faulted him over measures to fight inflation and not doing enough to cut ties to a fringe church. The approval rating for Kishida’s government fell to 27.4% in a Jiji Press poll ...

Bloomberg President Joe Biden said the US has gamed out responses if Russian President Vladimir Putin uses a nuclear weapon in Ukraine. “The Pentagon didn’t have to be asked,” Biden said in an interview Tuesday with CNN, in response to a question about whether he’d directed the Defense Department to come up with contingencies. The president declined to elaborate on ...