Bloomberg All Nippon Airways will increase international flights and cabin staff numbers to meet an anticipated jump in demand when Japan abolishes Covid-19 border controls next month. “We’ve long been waiting for the easing of restrictions,” Chief Executive Officer Shinichi Inoue told reporters at Haneda Airport in Tokyo on Friday. “We want to welcome visitors from overseas with increased ...

  Bloomberg Canadian retail sales rise slightly in August, a welcome rebound from the largest decline in more than a year in July. Receipts for retailers increased 0.4% in August, Statistics Canada reported Friday in Ottawa, according to an advance estimate. That follows a 2.5% sales drop in July, which was the first decline in seven months and the largest ...

Bloomberg Grilled by reporters at the United Nations General Assembly about what comes next in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov had simple advice. “You should read Putin more often and carefully,” he told a journalist who asked about Moscow’s endgame for the seven-month-old conflict, directing the questioner to Putin’s speeches for guidance. The Russian president’s public comments ...