Bloomberg Politics: news on page 256

Turkey's President told Bloomberg the former Halkbank executive jailed in the States for trying to avoid U.S. Sanctions on Iran is QUOTE "definitely innocent." Recep Tayyip Erdogan spoke exclusively

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party won the most seats in a closely-fought election in the southern state of Karnataka but may not be able to form a government after two rival

After a stunning upset in the general election, former Prime Minister Najib Razak resigned as the chief of the coalition Barisan Nasional as well as its core party United Malays National Organisation.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said he intends to tighten his grip on the economy and take more responsibility for monetary policy if he wins an election next month.

Cumhurbaşkanı Recep Tayyip Erdoğan 24 Haziran’daki seçimleri kazanması durumunda ekonomi üzerindeki denetimini ve para politikası üzerindeki kontrolünü artırmak istiyor.

Sweden’s got a major supply and demand problem.

Botswana’s president, Mokgweetsi Masisi, wants a new long-term diamond-sales pact with De Beers when the current 10-year deal expires in 2020 and for more gems to be processed locally.

Ex-Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou was sentenced to four months in jail for leaking details of a criminal investigation while still in office, although the former Kuomintang leader could still avoid

Britain’s quest to leave the European Union is riddled with infighting, and now another domestic political battle looks set to rumble on through the increasingly tricky negotiations.

Some 234 of China’s large-cap domestic stocks are about to get a significant new inflow of investment. They are among the companies that MSCI Inc., the New York-based provider of financial tools, is

Ernest Moniz, who helped negotiate the Iran nuclear deal when he served as U.S. energy secretary in the Obama administration, warned that President Donald Trump’s decision to pull the U.S. out of the

Michael Avenatti, the lawyer representing adult film actress Stormy Daniels, defended his explosive disclosure last week of more than $1 million in payments from companies including AT&T Inc. to

At a protest camp near Gaza’s border with Israel, young men huddle around two plastic kites whose long tails end in tightly-wound rags. One dips the rags in a bucket of gasoline and lights them,

Former President of Mexico Vicente Fox, author of "Let's Move On: Beyond Fear & False Prophets," discusses Nafta negotiations, President Trump, and the Mexican presidential election. He speaks on

A U.K. government-backed bank started a funding program that seeks to stop British entrepreneurs from going overseas to raise money they need to scale up their businesses.

Few Ghanaians were surprised when President Nana Akufo-Addo pledged that he would fulfill his campaign promise to fight graft. But what’s caught their attention was his appointment this year of an

India’s government counts on high-tech encryption, multi-layered authentication, and even 13-feet high walls to protect the world’s largest biometric database.

Extending the U.K.’s transitional customs arrangements with the European Union could be a way to resolve the thorniest question facing the Brexit negotiations, according to people familiar with the

Special counsel Robert Mueller urged a federal judge to reject a request by Paul Manafort for a hearing to determine whether government officials improperly leaked secret grand-jury information to the

The deteriorating security situation in Afghanistan is turning up in a new way: The cost for U.S. personnel to take a three-mile helicopter flight to Kabul’s airport is surging.