Bloomberg Brazil’s President Michel Temer justified putting an Army general in charge of Rio de Janeiro’s security forces to contain a rising tide of violence by saying that the circumstances required extreme measures. In a televised address, Temer explained the decree he had signed earlier in the day which puts the state’s police forces under military control. The intervention, which ...

Bloomberg The Philippines and China are in talks to jointly pursue oil and gas exploration in disputed waters of the South China Sea, Foreign Affairs Secretary Alan Peter Cayetano said. “I can tell you we are pursuing it aggressively because we need it,” Cayetano told reporters. The Philippines will finalize within three months a legal framework that will allow for ...

Bloomberg White House Chief of Staff John Kelly ordered an overhaul of the clearance process for staffers in the West Wing amid a storm of controversy after former staff secretary Rob Porter was allowed to remain in his job for months after the White House was told of allegations of domestic abuse. “We should—and in the future, must—do better,” Kelly ...