June, 2020

• 14 June

  Air Namibia’s future in doubt as leader runs out of patience

  

  Bloomberg Air Namibia grounded all international flights not already wiped out by the coronavirus after the country’s president, Hage Geingob, said the state carrier should be liquidated. The southwest African nation’s carrier has received about 8.3 billion Namibian dollars ($485 million) in government funding over the past two decades and Geingob said earlier this month the country “cannot afford to ...

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• 14 June

  Inside $5bn ‘Apollo’ deal to salvage Hong Kong’s Cathay

  

  Bloomberg The code name was “Apollo.” Its mission was to keep Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd alive. Hong Kong’s dominant airline had been in financial strife for months, its strong start to 2019 a distant memory. Social unrest in the city triggered a slump in passengers through the second half of last year. Then came the coronavirus pandemic, which forced Cathay ...

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• 14 June

  UK unveils ‘jet zero’ plan on aviation emissions

  Bloomberg The UK aims to drive down greenhouse gas emissions from aviation to make carbon-free transatlantic flights possible within a generation, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said. Shapps said he has formed a group bringing together leaders from aviation, environmental groups and government to form the “Jet Zero Council,” as he seeks to rebuild the industry in the wake of the ...

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• 14 June

  Trump visits West Point after anti-protest deployment threat

  

  Bloomberg President Donald Trump addressed graduates of the US Military Academy at West Point on Saturday, even as the backlash to his threat to use active-duty service members to quell domestic political protests continues to roil the Pentagon. Trump’s appearance at the nation’s oldest service academy was meant to signal a return to normalcy after the coronavirus pandemic. Instead, it ...

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• 14 June

  Border standoff with China easing: India

  

  Bloomberg India and China have started to pull back their forces along the border in the Himalyan region after talks between senior military officials, according to India’s Army Chief Manoj Mukund Naravane. “Our borders along with China are under control,” Naravane told reporters in the northern Indian city of Dehradun on Saturday. “We have had a series” of meetings with ...

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• 14 June

  North Korea slams S Korea over N-talks

  

  Bloomberg North Korea lashed out at South Korea for lacking a fresh solution to revive nuclear talks, and said the country will continue to strengthen its force to deal with what it called US threats. “If they want to deal with us, they will have to approach us after racking their brains and finding a different method,” foreign ministry official ...

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• 14 June

  Sweden’s governing party keeps poll lead

  

  Bloomberg Sweden’s governing Social Democrats remain in a strong position, despite mounting criticism over their handling of the coronavirus crisis, according to a poll on Saturday. The party had the support of 30% of voters, compared with a reading of 31.7% in May, according to the poll by Sifo in newspaper Svenska Dagbladet. That difference is within the poll’s margin ...

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• 14 June

  Maduro packs Electoral Council with loyalists

  

  Bloomberg Venezuela’s Supreme Court appointed five new members to the country’s Electoral Council, most of them loyal to Nicolas Maduro’s regime, in an accelerated approval process that bypassed the National Assembly. By unilaterally designating the new officials, Maduro is seeking to firm up control over the electoral system ahead of December’s congressional elections. The move is a setback for the ...

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• 14 June

  Patel condemns covering Churchill statue in London

  

  Bloomberg UK Home Secretary Priti Patel has condemned the boarding up of key public statues in London ahead of anti-racism protests on Saturday and urged demonstrators to stay at home. Patel used an interview with the Daily Mail to accuse the city’s mayor, Sadiq Khan, of mishandling the few subversive protesters and called for the statue of former Prime Minister ...

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• 14 June

  Singapore’s new dengue cases may surpass 1000

  Bloomberg Singapore dengue infections may top 1,000 this week, setting a record, the Straits Times newspaper reported. Cases for the year may exceed the all-time high of 22,170 set in 2013, the paper said, citing Amy Khor, the senior minister of state for the environment and water resources, and for health. Khor said the threat of dengue must be taken ...

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