Bloomberg Airbus SE suffered a surge in order cancellations last month as Norwegian Air Shuttle ASA scrapped narrow-body jet purchases and a wave of coronavirus lockdowns pushed back expectations for a revival in air travel. The European planemaker lost 92 commitments in February, it said in a statement, 88 of them from the Scandinavian discounter, which is seeking to restructure ...

Bloomberg Mauritius has stopped inbound commercial flights, until further notice, after six local Covid-19 cases were detected over two days, Health Minister Kailesh Jagutpal said. The objective of the move is to free up space for people to be placed in quarantine following a contact-tracing process, Jagutpal told reporters in the capital, Port Louis. The suspension of flights would provide ...

Bloomberg A top Chinese diplomat urged the US to stop “crossing lines and playing with fire” on Taiwan, as part of a broad series of warnings to President Joe Biden against meddling in Beijing’s affairs. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said at his annual news briefing on Sunday there was “no room for compromise or concessions” in Beijing’s claim to ...

Bloomberg Lawyers for former President Donald Trump have demanded the Republican National Committee and other GOP entities stop using his name and likeness on fund-raising emails and merchandise without his permission, said a person familiar with the move. The cease-and-desist letters, first reported by Politico, were sent to the RNC, the National Republican Congressional Committee, and the National Republican Senatorial ...

Bloomberg President Joe Biden signs an executive order mandating federal departments and agencies increase efforts to help Americans register to vote, as the White House looks for ways to offset Republican efforts to toughen voting standards. The executive action will direct federal facilities to accept requests from states — which each run their own voter processes — to become registration ...

Bloomberg A senior official in South Africa’s ruling party said the government should reject an attempt to impeach the country’s public prosecutor, according to the Sunday Times. According to Ace Magashule, a motion to investigate Busisiwe Mkhwebane is a strategy by the main opposition party to divide the governing African National Congress. The motion from the opposition Democratic Alliance for ...

Bloomberg Anti-government activists in Senegal announced three days of nationwide protests from Monday as death toll in most violent demonstrations in years rise to five, triggered by the arrest of the country’s main opposition leader. The opposition called on Senegalese people “to pursue its mobilisation and peaceful struggle by using all of its constitutional rights to reject dictatorship of Macky ...

Bloomberg Paraguay’s President Mario Abdo Benitez said he will name new cabinet ministers amid unrest over his government’s handling of the pandemic that has left at least one person dead. In an address to the nation, Abdo Benitez said he would name a new cabinet chief as well as new health and education ministers in the coming hours “for the ...

Bloomberg President Joe Biden’s signature $1.9 trillion Covid-19 relief bill passed the Senate 50-49 following a more than 25-hour marathon of amendment votes completed after Democrats settled an intra-party dispute over unemployment aid. The measure, the American Rescue Plan Act, now heads back to the House, where Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said a vote will be held on Tuesday. Although ...

Bloomberg German joblessness unexpectedly rises for the first time in eight months, adding to strains Europe’s largest economy is facing due to the protracted coronavirus lockdowns. The rise of 9,000 put the total number of unemployed people at 2.75 million and the rate at 6%, according to the Federal Labour Agency. Economists surveyed by Bloomberg had expected a drop of ...