November, 2019

• 17 November

  Italy’s industrial engine sputters on German economic malaise

  

  Bloomberg The tremors from Germany’s downturn are reverberating in Italy — particularly in the country’s industrial heartland. Companies big and small in the prosperous northern regions have been hit by declining sales as Europe’s largest economy buckles under a manufacturing slump. That’s a problem for Italy’s government, desperate to boost its own economic growth to help it get control of ...

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• 17 November

  Venezuelans march in biggest anti-Maduro protest in months

  

  Bloomberg Supporters of Juan Guaido staged their biggest protest in Caracas in months as Venezuela’s opposition leader seeks to revive his campaign to oust president Nicolas Maduro. A week after Maduro’s ally Evo Morales was toppled in Bolivia, Guaido is seeking to boost thinning crowds that have grown apathetic since a botched uprising in April failed to remove Maduro. “I’m ...

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• 17 November

  Lebanese tycoon pulls candidacy for premier

  

  FILED – 03 November 2019, Lebanon, Beirut: Protestors shout slogans and wave national flags during an anti-government protest in downtown Beirut. Demonstrators took the streets across Lebanon to protest against the government for the 18th consecutive day. Photo: Marwan Naamani/dpa[/caption Bloomberg Mohammed Safadi, a wealthy Lebanese businessman and former finance minister, has withdrawn his name as a candidate for prime ...

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• 17 November

  South Korea, Japan discuss extension of military pact

  Bloomberg The defense chiefs of South Korea and Japan discussed a potential extension of their bilateral military intelligence-sharing pact at a meeting in Bangkok, but only at an “in principle” level, Yonhap reported. “We talked about it only at a theoretical level,” South Korean Defense Minister Jeong Kyeong-doo was quoted by Yonhap as saying. He was speaking to reporters in ...

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• 17 November

  Rajapaksa wins Sri Lanka presidential polls

  

  Bloomberg A family of strongmen who tilted Sri Lanka towards a deep reliance on China clinched victory in a tightly-fought presidential election, as voting showed the country remains divided down ethnic lines. Gotabaya Rajapaksa won 52.3% of the votes, while ruling alliance candidate Sajith Premadasa had 42% at the final count, according to the Election Commission of Sri Lanka. There ...

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• 17 November

  Water cannon fails to move HK protesters

  

  Bloomberg Hong Kong police fired teargas and deployed a water cannon to try to clear a resistant band of protesters who occupied a university near the Tsim Sha Tsui district and blocked roads in the vicinity. Police launched round after round of teargas and repeatedly sprayed a blue-dyed liquid towards the demonstrators holed up at Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Streets ...

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• 17 November

  Ukraine aid was tied to probe, says Morrison

  

  Bloomberg A former top White House adviser told House impeachment investigators Ukrainians were advised that US military aid was being withheld until their president announced an investigation of a company that had hired ex-Vice President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter. Tim Morrison, a former senior director of European and Russian affairs at the National Security Council, said Gordon Sondland, the ambassador ...

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• 17 November

  US consulate in Nuevo Laredo issues ‘warning’

  Bloomberg The United States consulate in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, issued a safety warning and a curfew for its personnel following ongoing violence between Mexican authorities and criminal organisations. “US government personnel are subject to restrictions on their movements and an evening curfew until further notice,” according to the consulate’s official Twitter account. It didn’t specify the curfew hour. It said ...

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• 17 November

  Trump makes his best case for the re-election

  

  If President Donald Trump hopes to bring economic conservatives back to his side, this was the case he needed to make. In a speech at the Economic Club of New York, he offered a strong defense of his record on both economic growth and job creation. His argument for his trade war, on the other hand, was compelling as rhetoric ...

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• 17 November

  Amazon returns kill environment

  

  In December, American consumers will return more than 1 million packages to e-commerce retailers each day. It’s a flood of unwanted stuff that’s expected to peak on January 2, which UPS Inc. cheekily calls “National Returns Day.” For UPS and other shippers, that’s reason for plenty of post-holiday cheer. For everyone else, those tens of millions of packages are a ...

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