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  Bloomberg Airlines flying to Mali, which has been placed under sanctions by West Africa’s regional economic bloc, must confirm whether they will continue to operate within 72 hours, or risk losing their landing slots. “After this deadline, their time slots will be handed to other airlines, in order to assure continued services,” Mali’s Transport Minister Madina Sissoko Dembele said ...

  Bloomberg US aviation regulators published the first aircraft-specific restriction related to new 5G service expected to begin next week, ordering operators of Boeing Co. 787 jets to update landing requirements. Equipment on the planes that could be subject to interference from 5G radio waves affects how the jet stops after touching down, the Federal Aviation Administration said in an ...

  Bloomberg Starbucks Corp. employees at three more restaurants in New York state will vote on unionization, a US labor official ruled, offering organizers a chance to expand a new labor foothold that’s already inspiring copycat efforts around the country. In her ruling, Nancy Wilson, an acting regional director of the National Labor Relations Board, rejected the company’s arguments against ...

  Bloomberg The Biden administration warned Russian actors are preparing potential sabotage operations against their own forces and fabricating provocations in social media to justify an invasion into Ukraine if diplomacy fails. As part of the plan, President Vladimir Putin’s government has prepositioned operatives trained in urban warfare and in using explosives, possibly to carry out acts of sabotage against ...

  Bloomberg Hackers linked to the Belarusian security service may be behind last week’s cyberattack against Ukraine, according to a Ukrainian official. The former Soviet nation endured a mass cyberattack at several of its ministries and public services on Friday. Preliminary findings show that a group of hackers known as UNC1151 from Russian ally Belarus may have led the operation, ...

  Bloomberg Aung San Suu Kyi must be involved in Myanmar’s peace process, Philippine Foreign Secretary Teodoro Locsin said in a statement that condemned the sentencing of the deposed leader to another four years in prison. “Suu Kyi is indispensable in a democratic restoration that will pose no threat of anarchy, dissolution, and civil conflict,” Locsin said Sunday. He echoed ...

  Bloomberg Labour Party leader Keir Starmer said Sunday that he believes Prime Minister Boris Johnson “broke the law and lied,” regarding parties at No 10 Downing Street held during national coronavirus lockdowns. “The prime minister has degraded the office of Prime Minister and has lost all authority not only within his own party but with the whole country,” Starmer ...

  Bloomberg Serbia may take a step closer to joining the European Union on Sunday, when voters in the Balkan nation will decide on whether to change the constitution to create a more independent judiciary in line with the 27-member bloc’s standards. Shielding judges and prosecutors from political influence is a key step in aligning the former Yugoslav republic’s laws ...

  Bloomberg Christiane Taubira, who served as justice minister in the last Socialist government, formally announced her intention to run for president in an already crowded race. “I am a candidate,” Taubira said in a speech in Lyon, weeks after first touting a possible plan to run. “I have been meeting with the French, with you, in your daily lives. ...

  Bloomberg JPMorgan Chase & Co falls the most since 2020 after the company said compensation and other costs jumped in the fourth quarter ahead of an expected surge this year. Expenses in the last three months of 2021 rise 11% from a year earlier, and the firm said to expect them to rise to about $77 billion this year ...