Bloomberg An Indonesia cargo plane that returned to base shortly after takeoff because of a technical issue skidded off the runway when it landed at a Jakarta airport, the air-navigation operator said. Trigana Air’s Boeing 737-400 returned to Halim Perdanakusumah Airport about two minutes after takeoff, AirNav spokesman Yohanes Harry Douglas Sirait said. Several flights were diverted from the facility ...

Bloomberg Avianca Holdings SA plans to add dozens of routes using smaller aircraft as it plots its emergence from bankruptcy later this year, the airline’s chief executive said. Colombia’s largest carrier is expanding with 50 direct routes between secondary cities in coming years, said CEO Anko van der Werff in an interview. Using narrow-body planes, it will target tourist spots ...

Bloomberg President Joe Biden faces growing pressure from his party’s left to wage an all-out defense of voting rights, as Republican-held statehouses pursue restrictions that would fall heaviest on Black voters who helped Democrats win the White House and both chambers of Congress. Some activists say Biden should reshuffle his priorities and set aside work on a multi-trillion-dollar infrastructure and ...

Bloomberg The Philippines expressed “concern” after spotting what it said were Chinese fishing vessels at a reef claimed by it and China, with Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin saying a diplomatic protest was made over the presence of the boats. About 220 Chinese vessels were seen moored in line at Whitsun Reef in the South China Sea on March 7, ...

Bloomberg UK Home Secretary Priti Patel said Britain’s immigration system is broken, failing people fleeing persecution and danger while benefiting those who pay criminal gangs to get them into the country. Patel, writing in the Sun newspaper, said she will announce a new plan for immigration this week to make “much-needed changes.” The overhaul is designed to raise the standard ...

Bloomberg US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin paid an unannounced visit to Afghanistan on Sunday, the Associated Press said, citing local media reports. The stop comes as President Joe Biden is under pressure to decide whether to abide by an Afghanistan peace deal reached in Donald Trump’s final year aimed at bringing home the roughly 2,500 troops remaining in the ...

Bloomberg Malaysia said it expelled all North Korean diplomats in Kuala Lumpur following Pyongyang’s decision to end ties with it. Foreign Minister Hishammuddin Hussein said Malaysia resorted to the action in response to North Korea’s “unilateral and utterly irresponsible decision to sever diplomatic ties,” according to a statement. Pyongyang said it was ending relations after a Malaysian court ruled that ...

Bloomberg The European Union (EU) must honour its vaccine contracts even as the sluggish rollout puts pressure on governments there, Ben Wallace, the UK defense secretary, told Sky News on Sunday. “The commission knows deep down that this would be counterproductive,” Wallace said. “They’re under tremendous political pressure at the European Commission. It would damage the EU’s relations globally if ...

Bloomberg Germany is mulling around 70 billion euros ($83 billion) in extra debt spending this year to fight the fallout from the coronavirus crisis, according to a person familiar with the plans. Finance Minister Olaf Scholz needs those additional funds because the country’s lockdown is dragging on much longer than expected, the person said, cautioning that the exact number is ...

Bloomberg Latin America faces risks as its economy rebounds from the worst downturn in two centuries, with better fiscal policy needed to ensure a sustained recovery, according to region’s development lender. Output will grow 4.1% this year as vaccine rollouts proceed and businesses continue to open, the Inter-American Development Bank said in forecasts released at its annual meetings. The bank ...