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December 27, 2020 Aviation
Bloomberg The US will require passengers flying from the UK to show proof of a negative test for coronavirus, amid rising concerns over a more-contagious Covid-19 strain that is spreading after first emerging in England. Travelers arriving from the UK need to get a negative polymerase chain reaction or antigen test no more than 72 hours before leaving, according to ...
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December 27, 2020 Aviation
Bloomberg Seven labour groups representing workers at South African Airways (SAA) who’ve not been paid since March agreed to accept a settlement offer of three months’ wages, a move that will aid the government’s efforts to revive the bankrupt state airline. Members of the groups, including the South African Transport and Allied Workers’ Union and the Solidarity union, will also ...
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December 27, 2020 Aviation
Bloomberg An Air Canada Boeing 737-8 Max on a test flight suffered engine issues that forced the crew to shut down one of the plane’s engines and make an emergency landing in Tucson, Arizona, Aviation24.be has reported. Shortly after takeoff, the crew received an indication of hydraulic low pressure in the left engine, the website said. The three-member crew of ...
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December 27, 2020 Retail
Bloomberg Japanese retail sales resumed falling and Tokyo consumer prices slid the most in a decade amid slumping energy costs and record virus cases that kept shoppers home and darken the recovery outlook. Retail sales fall 2% in November from the prior month, as consumers continued to cut back on apparel purchases, the economy ministry reported. Analysts had forecast an ...
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December 27, 2020 Aviation
Bloomberg Boeing Co. plans to extend work on 787 Dreamliner jetliners at its main widebody factory north of Seattle for months after it shutters production there next year and shifts final assembly to South Carolina. The planemaker intends to used the freed up space at the Everett, Washington plant to inspect and repair any defects in the carbon-composite airframes of ...
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December 27, 2020 Politics, Uncategorized
Bloomberg The UK clinched a historic trade deal with the European Union (EU), avoiding a bitter breakup and preparing the ground for a new relationship with its biggest commercial partner. Negotiators finalised the accord to complete Britain’s separation from the bloc on Christmas Eve, just a week before the country leaves the EU’s single market and customs union. It brings ...
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December 27, 2020 Politics
Bloomberg Ethiopia will hold general elections on June 5, 2021, after delaying a planned vote in August due to the coronavirus pandemic. Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s fiercest opposition, the Tigray People’s Liberation Front, in September went ahead with the vote in defiance of the federal-government’s decision, and later triggered a military conflict when it attacked a military camp in the ...
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December 27, 2020 Politics
Bloomberg Mozambique said its security forces repelled an attack by insurgents on a town close to the site where Total SE is building a $20 billion natural gas facility. The attack took place about 21 kilometers from Total’s project, according to a statement from the Ministry of Defense, and is the second this month on the town of Mute in ...
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December 27, 2020 Politics
Bloomberg The extension of military confrontation into the cyber sphere and space raises the risks of incidents involving nuclear weapons, Russia’s top general warned, highlighting concerns about growing tensions. “The risks of incidents is rising from interference in systems of command and control over nuclear weapons,†General Valery Gerasimov, chief of the General Staff, said in comments to foreign military ...
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December 27, 2020 Politics
Bloomberg Tunisian media mogul and former presidential candidate Nabil Karoui was detained after a judge’s order, his lawyer said, amid an ongoing purge of alleged corruption that’s included the arrest of a government minister. Karoui, who founded Heart of Tunisia, the second-biggest party in both the government coalition and parliament, had been in court in connection with graft and money ...
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