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China, India trade charges of violating border firearm curbs

Bloomberg India and China accused each other of firing warning shots in the air along their disputed Himalayan border for the first time in more than four decades in a new sign of friction days after top officials on both sides agreed to defuse tensions. Indian troops “illegally crossed the Line of Actual Control on the southern bank of Pangong ...

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Irish PM warns Boris Johnson over Brexit divorce deal

Bloomberg Irish PM Micheal Martin warned Boris Johnson against tampering with the Brexit divorce agreement he signed last year, saying doing so would torpedo any trade deal between Britain and the European Union. “The Withdrawal Agreement is an international treaty, and we expect the UK government to implement and to adhere to what was agreed,” Martin said in an interview ...

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Abducted Belarus opposition leader detained amid crackdown

Bloomberg Belarus said Maria Kalesnikava, one of the Belarusian opposition’s top organisers, was detained at the border with Ukraine after being reported missing as President Alexander Lukashenko targets leaders of month-long protests against his 26-year rule. Two of Kalesnikava’s colleagues on the united opposition’s coordinating council, spokesman Anton Radniankou and its executive secretary Ivan Krautsou, crossed into Ukraine, leaving Kalesnikava ...

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