Bloomberg Joe Biden has formally clinched the Democratic presidential nomination, according to the Associated Press tally, officially setting off his general election campaign to unseat President Donald Trump. The former vice president passed the milestone after collecting 1,993 delegates to the national convention, two more than the 1,991 needed to become the nominee. Mail-in ballots from Indiana, Pennsylvania and Rhode ...

Bloomberg India will insist that China demolish recent construction and withdraw soldiers from a disputed border area as the two neighbours begin talks to end a stalemate that began in April, officials with knowledge of the matter said. The South Asian nation, at a meeting of senior defense officials on Saturday, will offer to remove construction done at the border ...

Bloomberg Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro is seeking to use the Supreme Court to accelerate the appointment of electoral officials mainly loyal to his government, laying the groundwork for congressional elections in December, according to seven people familiar with matter. Maduro’s administration is preparing to appoint an all-new board to the electoral body known as CNE through a Supreme Court ruling as ...

Bloomberg Spaniards are getting really worked up about Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez. At one point last month, the defaced image of the photogenic Socialist was plastered across a giant red banner hung in downtown Madrid. The trigger has been his widely-criticised handling of the coronavirus pandemic that has seen Spain suffer among the highest death tolls in Europe. But as ...

Bloomberg Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki is optimistic that the country’s economy will perform better than expected by analysts this year, thanks in part to government relief efforts. The European Union forecast a 4.3% decline in Poland’s gross domestic product in 2020, the best performance expected among the bloc’s 27 nations during the coronavirus pandemic. The median forecast from a ...

Bloomberg German Finance Minister Olaf Scholz is planning to raise more debt this year and next to help pay for the government’s massive stimulus program. Scholz will propose to raise debt by at least 30 billion euros ($33.9 billion) in a supplement to this year’s budget that will require parliamentary approval, according to people familiar with the discussion. Further borrowing ...

Bloomberg Facebook Inc. Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg said the company will review content policies after employees blasted their leader for his decision to leave up controversial posts from US President Donald Trump. The company will review policies on posts that promote or threaten state use of force or voter suppression techniques, and will also look into options for flagging ...

Bloomberg Bank of Spain Governor Pablo Hernandez de Cos is keeping up pressure on the government and lawmakers to ensure emergency spending on the coronavirus crisis is accompanied with a long-term plan to address the debts it will incur. “The measures have to include prudent forecasts about what would be the results of proposed spending cuts or of a proposed ...

Bloomberg Tesla Inc. Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk said it’s “time to break up Amazon” in a tweet, escalating a rivalry with Amazon.com Inc. CEO Jeff Bezos, another billionaire investing in space exploration. “Monopolies are wrong,” Musk tweeted while tagging Bezos, the world’s wealthiest man. The online retailer is among tech companies being scrutinised by federal regulators and lawmakers for ...

Bloomberg Surrounded by largely empty offices, builders last month returned to Dublin’s tech district, known as Silicon Docks. Dressed in green vests and with new safety rules to comply with, workers raced to complete developments earmarked for Alphabet Inc.’s Google, just days after a navy coronavirus testing ship nearby left. Construction resumed even as the virus throws up a new ...