Politics

  Bloomberg International monitors remaining at a Russian-occupied atomic plant in Ukraine are staying in order to independently evaluate how continued military attacks against the facility risk a nuclear accident. International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors arrived at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant after a harrowing journey across the frontline separating Ukrainian and Russian forces. The sounds of heavy machine-gun fire, ...

Bloomberg President Joe Biden accused Donald Trump and Republicans who back him of endangering US democracy and urged Americans to reject any candidate backed by his predecessor in the November midterm election. “Donald Trump and MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundation of our republic,” Biden said Thursday in a prime-time speech from Philadelphia’s Independence National Historical ...

  Bloomberg A man was arrested in Argentina after pointing a gun at Vice President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner as she greeted supporters outside her residence in Buenos Aires, a rare case of political violence that shocked the South American nation. Video footage circulating on social media Thursday night showed a man coming within inches of the vice president and ...

  Bloomberg A military-controlled court in Myanmar sentenced deposed civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi to three more years in prison for alleged election fraud in the 2020 general elections, according to a person familiar with the matter. The conviction on Friday was the fifth verdict against the Nobel peace laureate since the military topped her civilian government in a ...

Bloomberg Taiwan downed a civilian drone after weeks of complaints about incursions by unmanned aerial vehicles from China, a sign Taipei is pushing back against Beijing’s efforts to encroach on its territory. Taiwanese troops shot the drone down near Kinmen Island around noon Thursday after attempts to repel it failed, according to a statement from the garrison on the Taipei-held ...

  Bloomberg Sri Lanka’s Former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa is set return to the island nation as early as Friday after he fled a surge in anti-government protests in July, according to people with knowledge of the matter. Rajapaksa is expected to stay in a house provided by the government in Colombo, the people said, asking not to be named because ...

Bloomberg Foreign monitors arrived at a nuclear plant held by Russian forces in Ukraine, even as shelling reported in the area threatened to put their high-stakes mission at risk. International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi said Thursday that Ukrainian defense officials had warned his team of increased military activity in the so-called “gray zone” separating Kyiv’s territory ...

Bloomberg Taiwan warned it faces “severe military challenges” from surging Chinese military activity edging closer to the island, as Beijing tries to change the status quo in the Taiwan Strait. Taipei expects the People’s Liberation Army to continue sending warships and jets across the median line that divides the waterway, the island’s Ministry of National Defense said in an annual ...

  Bloomberg A court in Pakistan told former Prime Minister Imran Khan to explain in writing his angry comments against a female judge who had denied bail to Khan’s close aid, as it continues to mull initiating contempt proceedings against him. A five-judge panel headed by Chief Justice Athar Minallah directed the former leader to submit a response within a ...

Bloomberg The Biden administration is preparing to sell $1.1 billion in missiles and radar support to Taiwan, according to an official familiar with the matter, in what would be the largest such transfer in almost two years. The package would include as much as $650 million in continued support for a surveillance radar sold earlier, about $90 million for roughly ...