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May faces new Brexit revolt from Johnson

Bloomberg Prime Minister Theresa May is facing a revolt from inside her Cabinet over her plan to keep UK regulations aligned with the European Union after Brexit, a split that threatens to undermine her chances of breaking the deadlock in negotiations. Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson and Environment Secretary Michael Gove, who together led the Brexit campaign in last year’s referendum, ...

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‘Dual-nationality’ claims more Aussie lawmakers

Bloomberg The citizenship fiasco that’s gripped Australia’s parliament for the past five months and cost Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s government its majority is widening, with two lawmakers from the main opposition Labor party asking the High Court to decide whether they breached the constitution. Katy Gallagher, 47, told the upper house on Wednesday that while she believed she had taken ...

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Maduro rival resigns as Venezuela ambassador to UN

Bloomberg Rafael Ramirez, Venezuela’s ambassador to the United Nations since 2014 and former Petroleos de Venezuela head, resigned from his post amid a string of arrests at the oil giant he used to run, he said in a tweet. “This was a very hard decision to make,” he wrote in attached photos of a letter addressed to Jorge Arreaza, Venezuela’s ...

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