Bloomberg The head of an Indonesian political party backing President Joko Widodo’s bid for a second term has been named a suspect in a graft case involving job postings at the Religious Affairs Ministry. A politician only identified by his initials RMY, and two ministry officials are suspects, said Laode Muhammad Syarif, deputy of the Corruption Eradication Commission, in a ...

Bloomberg President Donald Trump issued his first veto, rejecting Congress’s effort to cancel his declaration of a national emergency to pay for a wall on the US-Mexico border, a centerpiece of his 2016 campaign. “Congress passed a dangerous resolution that, if signed into law, would put countless Americans in danger,” Trump said just before signing the veto in the Oval ...

Bloomberg An election in the heart of the European Union’s increasing populist eastern wing is poised to deliver a different kind of anti-establishment triumph. Sandwiched between Poland and Hungary — perennial thorns in the side of Brussels officials —Slovakia is set to pick as president an NGO lawyer who backs EU integration, vows to fight nationalism and wants to rebuild ...