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The leader of Tunisia’s parliament has been sworn in as the interim president of the North African country after 92-year-old President Beji Essebsi died in office. The state news agency TAP reported that Mohamed Ennaceur, president of the Assembly of …
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Turkish media say Turkey’s military has struck and killed the alleged planners of an attack that killed a Turkish diplomat in Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdish region. Private DHA news agency says Thursday the military, acting on Turkish intelligence, ta…
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Prime Minister Boris Johnson met his Brexiteer-dominated team of senior ministers on Thursday and said his new government was fully committed to the “momentous task” of leading Britain out of the European Union by Oct. 31. Johnson’s dramatic rise to B…
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(Bloomberg) — Want to receive this post in your inbox every day? Sign up for the Balance of Power newsletter, and follow Bloomberg Politics on Twitter and Facebook for more.Much of Europe is bracing for the hottest day of the year, with record temperatures forecast for Germany, France and the U.K.Whether it’s drought in India, wildfires in California and Siberia, or flooding in Argentina, the impact of freak weather events attributed to climate change is being felt worldwide, and forcing itself onto governments’ radars.Voters in seven European Union countries now name climate change as their No. 1 concern, above the economy, jobs or immigration. Incoming EU Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen has pledged to make environmental policy the bloc’s top priority.That’s not without contention, with major coal-burning countries like Poland wary of moves to tax carbon. In places like the U.S., Australia and Canada, climate and the environment is a key electoral battleground.It’s not necessarily a left-right political issue. China is making inroads in battling air pollution, while Boris Johnson referenced the U.K.’s effort to tackle climate change in his first speech as prime minister yesterday. Emmanuel Macron put climate at the heart of France’s Group of Seven presidency, and the current heatwave bolsters his case at next month’s G-7 leaders summit.For President Donald Trump, simply pulling the U.S. out of the Paris climate accord hasn’t made the issue disappear.Global Headlines Great purge | On his first day as U.K. prime minister, Johnson took an ax to his predecessor’s cabinet and populated the top ranks of government with like-minded Brexit hardliners. It was a new, brutal-yet-efficient side that emerged in a man who has undergone a startling transformation from has-been to undisputed leader in 12 months.Missiles aloft | North Korea fired two missiles into the sea off its east coast, raising the stakes just before stalled nuclear disarmament talks with the U.S. were set to get back on track. Leader Kim Jong Un has pressed Trump to drop sanctions choking his state’s economy, and the tests may have been a reminder that if the dealings sour, Pyongyang has weapons capable of quickly striking American military bases and allies.Tricky path | Two hundred days into her second stint as U.S. House Speaker, Nancy Pelosi is waging battles on her right and her left as well as against the calendar. The Democrats’ lead combatant with Trump is trying to keep ideological fissures from becoming yawning chasms that will hobble her party in the 2020 election.Click here for more on House passage of pension legislation aimed at giving Democrats an edge next year with voters in the Midwest’s union-heavy states. And read more about Democratic presidential aspirants’ efforts to lock down black voter support in the latest edition of Bloomberg’s Campaign Update.Leadership void | Puerto Rico Governor Ricardo Rossello’s resignation is fomenting fresh uncertainty in the U.S. commonwealth as it struggles back from a ruinous hurricane and navigates a record bankruptcy. Rossello, whose decision follows two weeks of protests, was undone by popular fury after the publication of profane, vengeful and misogynistic text messages among him and his aides.Fire sale | An investor darling who oversaw a 2,400% surge in shares of Latin America’s largest car rental company is leading one of Brazil’s biggest privatization efforts yet. As Rachel Gamarski reports, former Localiza CEO Jose Salim Mattar is on a mission to sell more than 100 state-controlled companies as President Jair Bolsonaro seeks to deliver on his promise to offload assets in a bid to spark much-needed investments and boost public accounts.What to WatchTurkey’s central bank is expected to lower interest rates today — estimates of how much vary from 50 basis points to 8 percentage points — after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan installed Murat Uysal as governor, having fired his predecessor for failing to cut sooner. Spain’s Socialist party rejected demands made by a key potential coalition partner, pushing Pedro Sanchez’s bid to stay on as prime minister to the brink of failure and making a fourth election in as many years more likely. The U.K. and France are among U.S. allies spurning the Trump administration’s call for a coalition to protect ships passing through the Persian Gulf amid Iranian attacks on tankers and drones, Nick Wadhams reports.And finally…A Swedish prosecutor has charged U.S. rapper A$AP Rocky and two other people held in remand since July 5 on suspicion of committing an assault in Stockholm. The case has drawn unusual diplomatic attention after Trump announced he’d offered to “personally vouch” for the performer’s bail in a phone call with Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven. Musician Kanye West and his wife Kim Kardashian West had lobbied Trump to intervene. \–With assistance from Kathleen Hunter, Flavia Krause-Jackson, Jon Herskovitz and Rosalind Mathieson.To contact the author of this story: Alan Crawford in Berlin at [email protected] contact the editor responsible for this story: Karl Maier at [email protected], Anthony HalpinFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.
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Russian investigators summoned a number of opposition politicians for questioning Thursday after the authorities staged night-time raids and jailed top Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny for 30 days. The crackdown comes as opposition politicians fight to g…
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Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast/GettyTEL AVIV—It was already late afternoon Tuesday local time when a call came in from a contact several time zones away. “A strange story is making the rounds in the Iranian press,” said the contact, who tracks s…
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Donald Trump appeared at a right-wing rally in front of a fake presidential seal, doctored to make apparently satiric references to Russia and golf.The tweaked image flashed up on a screen behind the president as he spoke to a summit hosted by the cons…
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Former special counsel Robert Mueller told House lawmakers that Russian interference is a continuing threat to U.S. elections. Capitol Hill is focusing new attention on election security.
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A federal judge in San Francisco blocked a Trump administration rule requiring most asylum-seekers to ask for protection in another country before they cross the U.S.-Mexico border.
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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson told his new top team of ministers on Thursday they had a momentous task ahead and were committed to delivering Brexit by Oct. 31. Johnson, who officially took over from Theresa May on Wednesday and swiftly sacked …
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Lead negotiators for China and the United States will meet in Shanghai on Tuesday for two days in the next round of trade talks, China’s commerce ministry confirmed. It would mark the first face-to-face meeting between U.S. and Chinese trade teams sin…
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