Politics

  Bloomberg Iraq’s top court rejected a bid by influential cleric Moqtada Al-Sadr to dissolve parliament in the OPEC member state, a move that could spark further unrest after last month’s deadly clashes over the political standoff in Baghdad. The Federal Supreme Court rebuffed the demand on Wednesday, Iraq’s state news agency said. Iraq has been at a political impasse ...

Bloomberg Greece accused Turkey of “extremely aggressive rhetoric” that risks destabilizing the region and weakening Nato, the latest bout in an escalating war of words between the two Nato allies over tensions in the Aegean Sea. “We risk witnessing again a situation similar to that currently unfolding in some other part of our Continent,” Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias wrote ...

  Bloomberg Brazil’s Supreme Court, which has become the main target of President Jair Bolsonaro’s fiery rhetoric, reinforced its security to avoid a potential attack during demonstrations expected in the nation’s capital on Wednesday. Around 10,000 police officers have been deployed to prevent riots in Brasilia, where Bolsonaro supporters will hold pro-government rallies following an Independence Day military parade. An ...

  Bloomberg Rahul Gandhi, the scion of India’s Congress party, has kicked off a 3,500 kilometer-long (2,175 miles) march across the country to revive his party’s fortunes and challenge Prime Minister Narendra Modi in elections less than two years away. The five month-long “Unite India” journey will take Gandhi, 52, and thousands of his party workers across 12 states — ...

  Bloomberg A bipartisan group of eight US lawmakers arrived in Taiwan on Wednesday, bringing the number of congressional visits this year to the highest in at least a decade as shows of support for the island’s leadership have grown. The delegation of two Democratic and six Republican members of the House of Representatives, led by Florida Democrat Stephanie Murphy, ...

Bloomberg International monitors demanded the immediate establishment of a security zone around a Russian-occupied nuclear plant in southern Ukraine in order to reduce the potential for an atomic accident. The International Atomic Energy Agency called for a halt to shelling and the need for “the urgent establishment” of a nuclear safety and security zone around the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, ...

  Bloomberg The European Union proposed to make it more expensive and harder for Russian tourists to travel to the bloc, in a move that will likely increase tensions between Moscow and Brussels. “Russian citizens should not have easy access to the EU,” Commissioner Ylva Johansson, in charge of home affairs, told reporters Tuesday. “At the moment, there is no ...

  Bloomberg The Solomon Islands accused Australia of trying to “influence” its lawmakers ahead of a vote on a constitutional amendment to delay elections until 2024, after Canberra offered to fund the Pacific nation’s next national ballot. Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare’s office said Australia’s offer was “inappropriate” and it would not respond until the constitutional amendment had been voted on. ...

  Bloomberg Xi Jinping will visit Kazakhstan next week for a state visit, Interfax reported, in what would be the Chinese president’s first trip overseas in more than two and a half years. Xi accepted the Kazakh president’s invitation to visit the Central Asian nation on Sept. 14, the Russian news agency reported, citing Kazakh Foreign Ministry spokesman Aibek Smadiyarov. ...

Bloomberg Typhoon Hinnamnor left at least two people dead and created flooding and power outages as it passed through South Korea, though the destruction appeared to be less than had been forecast. Hinnamnor hit near the southern city of Geoje at 4:50 a.m. local time on Tuesday and moved off the coast near Ulsan just a few hours later, the ...