Bloomberg US President Donald Trump spoke to Vladimir Putin on Tuesday, hours after the Kremlin said there’d been no call to congratulate the Russian leader on his re-election. Trump “congratulated Vladimir Putin on his victory in the presidential elections,” and the two leaders discussed a possible meeting, the Kremlin said in a statement. “The conversation was constructive and business-like, and ...

Bloomberg Kenya’s biggest opposition party called for an independent probe of Cambridge Analytica’s role in last year’s protrac-ted presidential elections that were marred by violence. “We would be interested in the truth about the role of Cambridge Analytica in spreading divisive propaganda in our election cycle,” Orange Democratic Movement Secretary-General Edwin Sifuna said on Tuesday by phone from Nairobi, the ...

Bloomberg Chinese President Xi Jinping warned that efforts to widen divisions with Taiwan would be “punished by history” in a nationalistic speech to mark the start of his second term. In an address to China’s almost 3,000-member national parliament, Xi said China had the capabilities to stop any attempt to formalise the democratically ruled island’s independence. The remarks came just ...