Politics

Bloomberg Britain’s beleaguered prime minister Liz Truss is battling to rescue her premiership this week, when financial markets will deliver a fresh verdict on her screeching economic reset while mutinous backbenchers plot to oust her. Only 40 days in office, Truss spent Sunday huddling with new Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt, her pick to restore stability after a humiliating ...

Bloomberg A senior Nato official confronted a Chinese diplomat over China’s failure to condemn the Russian invasion of Ukraine, injecting tension over the war into an international conference about the Arctic. The unusually frank exchange between Admiral Rob Bauer, chair of the alliance’s Military Committee, and He Rulong, China’s ambassador to Iceland, followed a speech by Bauer on Nato’s role ...

Bloomberg Chinese President Xi Jinping pledged his nation will prevail in its fight to develop strategically important tech, underscoring Beijing’s concern over a US campaign to separate it from cutting-edge chip capabilities. “We will focus on national strategic needs, gather strength to carry out indigenous and leading scientific and technological research, and resolutely win the battle in key core technologies,” ...

Bloomberg Pakistan’s former premier Imran Khan faces a crucial popularity test as he contests in seven of the eight by-elections on Sunday, looking to build momentum for his campaign to pressure the six-month-old government into calling an early national vote. The seats fell vacant after all 131 lawmakers from Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party resigned from parliament’s lower house in April ...

  Bloomberg Former President Barack Obama will travel to Georgia, Michigan and Wisconsin at the end of October to rally voters in key battleground states to support Democrats in the Nov. 8 midterm elections that will decide the balance of power in Washington for the next two years. Obama will be in Atlanta on Oct. 28 to campaign with candidates ...

  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 ...