Bloomberg Banned from social media and abandoned by some staff after inciting a riot at the US Capitol, President Donald Trump and a dwindling circle of advisers plan a defiant final week in office, according to people familiar with the matter. Trump is confident Vice President Mike Pence and members of his cabinet won’t attempt to remove him under the ...

Bloomberg The US Secretary of State and foreign ministers of the UK, Canada and Australia expressed their “serious concern” about the arrest of 55 politicians and activists in Hong Kong, the governments said in a joint statement. Hong Kong’s National Security Law, under which the arrests were made, is a breach of the Sino-British Joint Declaration and undermines the “one ...

Bloomberg Sweden’s top defense official said staying out of North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Nato) remains the best security option for the country, even with an increasingly assertive Russia. A Swedish application for Nato membership would “affect the entire security policy architecture in our part of Europe,” Defense Minister Peter Hultqvist said in an interview in Stockholm. “Above all, it puts ...