Politics

  Bloomberg India’s close military and trade ties with Russia won’t undermine the effectiveness of the Quad security partnership, Australia’s top diplomat said, despite high tensions between Moscow and western nations over Russia’s war in Ukraine. Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong and her Indian counterpart External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar told a press conference in Canberra on Monday that the ...

  Bloomberg Catalonia’s separatist president is set to name a batch of new cabinet members in a bid to shore up his government after its main coalition partner pulled the plug on their alliance. The seven new so-called councilors will be sworn in Tuesday, President Pere Aragones said on his Twitter account. The move to fill vacant posts in the ...

  Bloomberg President Vladimir Putin’s flagship bridge to Crimea was severely damaged in a blast that hit a fuel train and caused the partial collapse of the only road link running from the Russian mainland to the Black Sea peninsula that Moscow annexed in 2014. Local authorities raced on Saturday to reopen one lane of the Kerch Strait Bridge to ...

Bloomberg South Korea said its military will strengthen security cooperation with the US and Japan, including the deployment of “US strategic assets,” after Kim Jong Un’s North Korea fired two short-range ballistic missiles Sunday. The provocations, in violation of United Nations Security Council’s resolutions, will strengthen sanctions against North Korea, worsen public welfare and make the regime “very unstable,” South ...

Bloomberg The return of Parliament this week is fraught with danger for UK Prime Minister Liz Truss. In her first month in office, the 47-year-old premier managed to roil the financial markets, alienate a swath of her lawmakers and sink the Conservative Party in the polls with the biggest set of unfunded tax cuts in half a century. Since the ...

Bloomberg President Joe Biden said the US is trying to find an “off-ramp” for Russian President Vladimir Putin and worries his threats to use tactical nuclear weapons are real and could lead to “Armageddon.” “We’re trying to figure out what is Putin’s off-ramp? Where does he get off? Where does he find a way out?” Biden said Thursday at a ...

Bloomberg Human rights advocates in the former Soviet neighbors of Belarus, Ukraine and Russia won the Nobel Peace Prize for their efforts to fight authoritarian regimes as Europe’s worst military confrontation since World War II is roiling the region. Ales Bialiatski from Belarus, Memorial of Russia and Ukraine’s Center for Civil Liberties were awarded the 10-million Swedish kronor ($900,000) prize ...

Bloomberg President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday said Greece should take his warnings seriously about Turkey’s response to any threats, resorting to the menacing rhetoric he’s used in recent months that’s prompted the US to urge the two Nato allies to negotiate. Ties between Turkey and Greece have been strained for years over territorial conflicts in the east Mediterranean, but ...

  Bloomberg French state-controlled uranium producer Orano SA is considering growing its capacity to enrich the radioactive ore into nuclear fuel by almost 50% as Western governments and utilities seek to reduce their reliance on Russia since its attack on Ukraine. The war is “reviving the urgency” to raise Western uranium-enrichment capacity to avoid potential shortages, Orano said, according to ...

Bloomberg North Korea’s latest barrage of missiles may look like another attempt to ratchet up hostilities in return for some sort of leverage at the bargaining table. But the launches over the past two weeks seem different. Unlike previous provocations, his regime has mostly refrained from trumpeting the missiles along with the usual creative vitriol directed at the US and ...