Bloomberg London Heathrow airport says it could resume paying a small dividend to shareholders from 2022, the Sunday Times reported. Heathrow said it would not pay dividends this year or next in return for leniency from its shareholders in a submission to the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA). The airport will resume payouts of about 400 million pounds ($538 million) a ...

Bloomberg Joe Biden will be one formal step closer to the presidency after Tuesday’s deadline for states to certify their slates of electors to the Electoral College — locking in the names of the people who will formally vote to make Biden the president. Once that happens, there’s little turning back. Congress must by law accept those electors if there’s ...

Bloomberg Tens of thousands of farmers across India took to the streets on Tuesday during a nationwide strike demanding the scrapping of new agricultural laws, intensifying an almost fortnight long standoff with the government of PM Narendra Modi. The daylong shutdown, called by several farm groups, impacted traffic and movement in some parts of the country. Wholesale agricultural markets in ...

Bloomberg Thailand’s pro-democracy groups will hold a gathering this week to press for the abolition of a law that penalises insulting and criticising the nation’s top royals, after authorities invoked the act against protest leaders who are demanding monarchy reform. The protesters, who have been rallying regularly in capital Bangkok and other cities since mid-July, will hold “an important event” ...

Bloomberg Poland’s prime minister launched a broadside on the European Union’s push to link funding to democratic values, ratcheting up tension over his country’s decision to derail the bloc’s $2.2 trillion spending package with Hungary. EU officials have given the two countries hours to offer a clear signal that they’ll lift their veto as early as Tuesday, according to people ...

Bloomberg Angela Merkel and Emmanuel Macron have agreed that Brexit negotiations should be kept off the agenda of this week’s summit of European Union leaders, a sign the bloc will resist making any significant last-minute concessions to the UK and will stick with Michel Barnier’s mandate. The decision was taking during a call between Germany’s chancellor, France’s president, and the ...

Bloomberg UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson will head to Brussels within days for urgent talks with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, amid growing fears on both sides that Brexit trade talks will fail. The two agreed to meet after they concluded a deal remained far off, despite frantic attempts by their negotiators to break the deadlock as time ...

Bloomberg States including New York and Nevada used outdated federal estimates showing many more doses of Pfizer Inc’s vaccine would be available as they planned for the initial inflow of shots, said a spokesperson for the US Department of Health and Human Services. The estimates given to states in October for planning purposes said there could be 20 million doses ...

Bloomberg France is poised to miss a coronavirus goal set by President Emmanuel Macron as a condition for lifting the country’s lockdown next week, with daily new Covid-19 cases holding at more than twice the targeted level. The government is worried about the pandemic indicators, and is mulling alternatives to a planned end of stay-at-home measures on December 15, Liberation ...

Bloomberg Nokia Oyj is leading a group of companies and universities in a European Union funded wireless project called Hexa-X to help jump-start a new generation of mobile technology that’s already being called 6G. The group includes wireless gearmaking-peer Ericsson AB, mobile carriers Orange SA and Telefonica SA, and technology companies including Intel Corp. and Siemens AG. They’re joined by ...