July, 2022

• 1 July

  London, Paris airports slashing more flights over travel turmoil

  

    Bloomberg London Heathrow and Paris-Charles de Gaulle airports are cutting more flights as Europe’s travel chaos continues into the summer. Heathrow asked airlines to cut 30 flights from their schedules amid concern that peak passenger numbers will exceed the level it can safely handle. France’s civil aviation authority has ordered a 17% reduction in flights out of Paris-Charles de ...

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• 1 July

  Spirit again delays vote on Frontier merger, eyes more talks

  

    Bloomberg Spirit Airlines Inc delayed a shareholder vote on its proposed merger with Frontier Group Holdings Inc less than 24 hours before it was scheduled, saying management needs more time for talks with its favored partner and rival suitor JetBlue Airways Corp. Spirit, which rescheduled the meeting for July 8, will continue soliciting shareholder proxies for the ballot, according ...

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• 1 July

  Irish army on standby for Dublin Airport to assist

    Bloomberg Ireland is putting the army on standby to help alleviate staffing issues at Dublin Airport if the hub is hit by more shortages in the coming weeks. The army will be made available if needed to assist the Dublin Airport Authority during the peak holiday season of July and August, Transport Minister Eamon Ryan told RTE Radio. The ...

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• 1 July

  Hello Kitty owner soars on China deal

    Bloomberg Shares of Sanrio Co, the brainchild behind the Hello Kitty franchise, surged in Tokyo after the company signed a licensing deal with a unit of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd that will expand its reach in China. Shares rose as much as 15%, the biggest intraday gain in more than a decade, on trading volume more than five times ...

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June, 2022

• 30 June

  Beijing urges Nato allies to abandon ‘cold war thinking’

  

  Bloomberg China urged Nato to abandon what it called a Cold War mentality after the military alliance said the Asian nation poses systemic challenges to security. Nato’s so-called Strategic Concept, a document on policy guidelines adopted at an alliance summit in Madrid on Wednesday, is “filled with Cold War thinking and ideological bias” and is “maliciously attacking and smearing China,” ...

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• 30 June

  Biden supports Turkey F-16 purchase, says Congress will agree

    Bloomberg President Joe Biden said he told Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan that he supported the sale of F-16 jets to modernise Turkey’s air force. “We should sell them the F-16 jets and modernize those jets as well,” Biden said at the conclusion of a Nato summit in Madrid on Thursday. “It’s not in our interest not to do ...

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• 30 June

  Russia pulls troops off Snake Island after Ukraine strikes

    Bloomberg Russia confirmed it withdrew troops from Ukraine’s Snake Island in the Black Sea after the Ukrainian military said it had driven them out under massive attack. The Defense Ministry in Moscow called the decision a gesture aimed at easing grain shipments from Ukraine, but a top official in Kyiv dismissed that claim. There was no sign of a ...

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• 30 June

  Marcos poised to take power 36 years after family fled Manila

  

  Bloomberg Ferdinand Marcos Jr., the late Philippine dictator’s son and namesake, was to be officially sworn in as president on Thursday, completing his family’s political revival nearly four decades after his father’s ouster. Marcos met with President Rodrigo Duterte at the presidential palace, where the outgoing leader was also given departure honors. The incoming president will take the oath of ...

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• 30 June

  Modi’s party to share power in India’s richest state

  

  Bloomberg Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party will share power to govern India’s richest state of Maharashtra, a senior party member said, a day after the chief minister resigned following a rebellion by lawmakers of his own party. More than half the legislators of Uddhav Thackeray’s right-wing Shiv Sena have exited his ruling coalition claiming he has deviated from ...

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• 30 June

  Russian hackers target Norway in latest volley of cyber attacks

    Bloomberg Russian hacker group Killnet targeted a string of Norwegian public service websites in the latest digital salvo against Nato member countries. Norway’s National Security Authority has been assisting a series of organizations in dealing with targeted cyber attacks from an alleged pro-Russian group, Director General Sofie Nystrom said. Some websites experienced instability or disruption, but there are currently ...

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