Bloomberg As South Africa’s ruling party battles to bounce back from a succession of scandals and extend its quarter-century monopoly on power in next year’s elections, it has a key advantage: a wounded opposition. By forcing the unpopular Jacob Zuma to stand down as president in February, the African National Congress deprived the Democratic Alliance (DA) and Economic Freedom Fighters ...

Bloomberg President Donald Trump said Robert Mueller is behaving “viciously,” a day after the special counsel accused Trump’s former campaign chairman of lying in breach of an agreement to cooperate with authorities. In one of his most sustained and rambling attacks yet, Trump said on Twitter that Mueller is “ruining lives” as punishment against witnesses who he said refuse to ...

Bloomberg Ukraine imposed martial law in some regions a day after its navy was fired on by Russia in a major re-escalation of hostilities that drew condemnations of the Kremlin from the US and the European Union. President Petro Poroshenko said martial law was needed to ready Ukraine for potential further Russian aggression amid fears Sunday’s incident near Crimea would ...