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Violence in India’s Manipur continues

BLOOMBERG Ethnic violence in India’s northeastern Manipur state has continued for more than a month, claiming over 100 lives and with mobs torching houses including those of the ruling party’s leaders. Mobs set ablaze junior foreign minister Rajkumar Ranjan Singh’s house in the state’s capital Imphal and targeted homes and offices of other leaders of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, ...

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Blinken meets Chinese counterpart to mend ties

BLOOMBERG Secretary of State Antony Blinken met his Chinese counterpart in Beijing on Sunday as the Biden administration seeks to stabilise strained ties between the world’s two biggest economies. The top US diplomat, whose previous attempt to visit China in February was scrapped at the last minute when the US revealed an alleged Chinese spy balloon was floating over American ...

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Biden 2024 kickoff counters Trump with focus on economy

BLOOMBERG President Joe Biden called for new taxes on the wealthy and corporations and warned Republicans would roll back policies he argued had saved the US economy, setting out core themes as he kicked off his reelection campaign. Biden didn’t mention Donald Trump during a rally with union members in Philadelphia. Instead, the president contrasted his platform with his twice-indicted ...

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