Recent Posts

Voters punish May, Corbyn in local polls

Bloomberg Voters in England punished both Theresa May’s Conservatives and Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour opposition in local elections, piling pressure on the two party leaders to resolve the Brexit crisis paralysing British politics. Britain’s major parties interpreted their poor results as an angry demand from a frustrated population to deal with Brexit, which has locked Parliament in a stalemate for months. ...

Read More »

Siri case: Italy’s Conte drops peacemaker role

Bloomberg The referee, it seems, has taken sides. After spending much of the last 10 months acting as a mediator between the feuding deputy premiers who hold the real power in Italy’s government, PM Giuseppe Conte appears to have sided with one of them: the Five Star Movement’s Luigi Di Maio. When Conte called for the resignation of a cabinet ...

Read More »

Boeing 737 skids off runway into Florida river, no fatalities

Bloomberg Boeing Co said it’s helping to investigate how a 737-800 plane arriving from Cuba slipped into a river after skidding off a runway near Jacksonville, Florida. The chartered flight operated by Miami Air International Inc was carrying 136 passengers and seven crew when it left the runway at Naval Air Station Jacksonville on Friday evening, Boeing said in a ...

Read More »
Send this to a friend