Bloomberg Pressure built on Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison after a second lawmaker quit in as many days, just weeks ahead of an upcoming national election. Defense Minister Christopher Pyne said on Saturday that he will retire at the election. Steven Ciobo, in charge of the defense industry portfolio, also said that he won’t re-contest his seat. Ciobo’s resignation makes ...

Bloomberg Donald Trump had a rough week. His former lawyer told a House committee that the president is a cheat and a racist who has committed fraud, hours before Trump returned empty-handed from a high-stakes summit with North Korea’s Kim Jong-un in Hanoi. Yet just down the Potomac River from Washington, at an annual gathering of influential conservatives, none of ...

Bloomberg Europe’s main political family moved closer to a showdown with its most troublesome member, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, over his increasingly euroskeptic behavior. The European Union’s Christian Democrats sent two sets of warnings to Orban and his Fidesz party, signaling a greater determination to confront populist forces in the run-up to EU legislative elections in May. Manfred Weber, ...