Bloomberg US aviation regulators struck back at major carriers’ reliability after the head of United Airlines Holdings Inc called the government’s air-traffic system “by far the No. 1” cause of flight delays. United Chief Executive Officer Scott Kirby made the comments in Washington during a conference. Within hours, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) issued a statement, including a chart ...

  Bloomberg Amazon.com Inc will let brands and merchants send marketing emails to shoppers, a risky bid to boost sales that could inundate inboxes with spam. The company announced the initiative at the Amazon Accelerate conference in Seattle, where it demonstrates new features to the independent businesses that sell more than half of the products on Amazon.com. Merchants will be ...

  Bloomberg Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd expects to fly one-third of its pre-Covid capacity by the end of the year, up from 25% previously projected as Hong Kong gradually loosens restrictions on travel, including lengthy mandatory quarantine stays. The recovery will take time as Hong Kong’s main airline returns its fleet to service and trains staff after operating at as ...

Bloomberg President Joe Biden said Vladimir Putin would face a “consequential” US response if the Russian president used nuclear or chemical weapons in the war in Ukraine. “Don’t. Don’t. Don’t,” Biden said in an excerpt from an interview with CBS’s “60 Minutes” when asked what he would say if Putin were considering using tactical nuclear weapons or chemical weapons in ...

Bloomberg Turkey is seeking membership to the China-led Shanghai Cooperation Organization as President Recep Tayyip Erdogan attempts to forge alliances with friendly countries in the East. Erdogan made the announcement after attending the SCO summit in Uzbekistan on Friday where he held talks with leaders including China’s President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin. A successful bid would make ...

Bloomberg Liz Truss’s government was barely into its stride when the UK was thrust into a state of suspended animation following the death of its longest-serving monarch, Queen Elizabeth II. But after Monday’s state funeral, British politics will return full-throttle with the new prime minister back under pressure over a deepening economic crisis. Truss starts the week by flying to ...

Bloomberg Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is launching an offensive to sway supporters of President Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil’s southern states, the stronghold of the right-wing incumbent. The presidential front-runner held a rally on Friday in Porto Alegre, capital of Rio Grande do Sul, before heading to Curitiba, the Parana state capital where he was kept behind bars between 2018 ...

  Bloomberg Senegal President Macky Sall appointed new ministers for economy and finance after naming the country’s first prime minister in three years, doubling down on efforts to rein in a building cost-of-living crisis. Oulimata Sarr is replacing Amadou Hott as economy minister. Mamadou Ba, the former general director of the budget, takes over as finance minister from Abdoulaye Daouda ...

Bloomberg Time was running out on Sunday for tens of thousands of people still hoping to pay respects to Queen Elizabeth II by joining a miles-long queue to view her coffin at Westminster Hall. The British Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport said that a decision will be taken later on when entry to the line will close, as ...

Bloomberg US President Joe Biden’s top medical adviser warned in an interview with the Financial Times that a broad refusal of vaccines against Covid-19 may undermine efforts to immunise children and contain future illness outbreaks. Anti-vaccine attitudes “might spill over into that kind of a negative attitude towards childhood vaccinations,” Anthony Fauci was quoted as saying. “If you fall back ...