August, 2017

• 9 August

  Indian cities to grow the fastest in Asia as Chinese rivals slow

  

  Bloomberg Delhi will have the fastest growth of any city in Asia, with the economy to be almost 50 percent larger in 2021 than it was at the end of last year. Indian cities are set to expand the most across the region, with growth speeding up from the past 5 years, according to a new study from Oxford Economics, ...

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• 9 August

  Gold imports by India doubled in July

  Bloomberg Gold imports by India are said to have risen in July on arrival of some delayed shipments booked ahead of the implementation of a new national goods and services tax on July 1, according to sources. Inbound purchases rose to 53.4 metric tons last month from 22 tons a year earlier, said the person, who didn’t wish to be ...

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• 9 August

  Trump’s ‘fire and fury’ warning to North Korea rattles world

  

  Bloomberg President Donald Trump’s threat to hit North Korea with “fire and fury” jolted markets from New York to Seoul even as US lawmakers questioned the president’s willingness to back up the heated rhetoric. “North Korea best not make any more threats to the United States,” Trump told reporters in Bedminster, New Jersey, on Tuesday. “They will be met with ...

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• 9 August

  Suspect in Paris attack on soldiers arrested

  

  Bloomberg Police arrested a man they suspect was the driver who rammed his car into a group of soldiers patrolling in the Paris suburb of Levallois-Perret on Wednesday morning, Agence France-Presse reported. The Paris prosecutor opened an anti-terrorism probe into the incident. The suspected driver was wounded during the arrest early Wednesday afternoon on the A16 highway to the northern ...

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• 9 August

  Rouhani names 3 women to govt posts after criticism

  Bloomberg Iran president Hassan Rouhani brought three women into the government on Wednesday, one day after being criticised on social media for submitting an all-male list of cabinet members to parliament for approval. Massoumeh Ebtekar, head of Iran’s Department of Environment in Rouhani’s first term, was appointed vice president for women and family affairs. Laya Joneidi was named vice president ...

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• 9 August

  Kenya braces for trouble as opp rejects poll results

  

  Bloomberg Kenyans are bracing themselves for trouble after the main opposition alliance said the vote-counting system had been hacked and that preliminary results from Tuesday’s elections showing President Uhuru Kenyatta has a commanding lead are “fake.” With votes from more than 90 percent of polling stations counted, Kenyatta has 54.4 percent support, while his main rival Raila Odinga has 44.7 ...

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• 9 August

  Zuma’s survival puts ruling ANC in firing line

  Bloomberg While South African President Jacob Zuma has narrowly survived yet another a no-confidence motion, the vote will do little to shore up the public’s faith in his beleaguered African National Congress. On Tuesday, ruling party lawmakers rallied around Zuma to defeat the motion 198 to 177 — the eighth such vote the president has faced, but the first with ...

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• 9 August

  Venezuela ‘truth commission’ ready to hound regime opponents

  

  Bloomberg A Venezuelan assembly rewriting the nation’s constitution is intensifying a campaign of persecu- tion that already has sent opposition politicians into hiding, exile and prison. President Nicolas Maduro said the constituent assembly, which on Tuesday declared itself the nation’s supreme political authority, will strip legal immunity from the national assembly that has opposed him. Members of the so-called constituyente ...

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• 9 August

  Impeach me, please!

  

  No one is working harder for the impeachment of Donald Trump than Donald Trump. If we have learned anything about this president, it is that he has a compulsion to be the center of attention. He can’t bear being out of the limelight and will say almost anything—no matter how offensive, outrageous or dishonest it strikes millions of Americans—to keep ...

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• 9 August

  How the Democrats can sidestep disaster in 2020 nominations

  

  With Donald Trump’s approval ratings in the dumps, it’s no surprise that early maneuvering for the 2020 Democratic nomination is already fairly visible. Ed Kilgore assesses the field as some of the longer of the long shots get ready for visits to Iowa, and he raises the question of whether a very large field will be vulnerable to the kind ...

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