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Bloomberg China’s biggest airshow, which takes place every two years in the southern city of Zhuhai, has been canceled due to the coronavirus, according to a statement Wednesday. The China International Aviation & Aerospace Exhibition was due to take place from November 10-15 and feature industry giants including Boeing Co and Airbus SE. The biennial show first took place in ...

Bloomberg US airline passenger traffic reached new heights over the Labor Day holiday, flirting with a daily total of nearly 1 million fliers for the first time since the Covid-19 pandemic erupted. On September 4, 968,673 people passed through security screening portals at US airports, the Transportation Security Administration said. That was 44.1% of the equivalent day last year, the ...

Bloomberg Airbus SE delivered 39 jets last month while avoiding order cancellations as it battles to keep revenue flowing in a market battered by the coronavirus crisis. August handovers comprised 35 A320-series narrow-body planes and four twin-aisle jets, the Toulouse, France-based company said. The overall tally is down 10 planes from July. Boeing Co said it delivered 13 planes in ...

Bloomberg The embattled Belarusian opposition lost contact with two more members of its coordination council as authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko targets the leaders of the biggest protests of his 26-year rule. Lawyers Maksim Znak and Ilya Saley were targeted in separate raids on Wednesday, opposition spokesman Gleb Germanchuk said. Znak managed to tell him that “someone came to visit us” ...

Bloomberg President Donald Trump plans to announce further US troop reductions in Iraq on Wednesday, an administration official said. The US commander in the Middle East, General Frank McKenzie, said the current level of 5,200 military personnel would be reduced to 3,000 in September, CNN reported on Wednesday. After sending more American forces to the Middle East in his first ...

Bloomberg Boris Johnson is facing a backlash from within his own ruling Conservative Party after the UK government said it plans to break international law over Brexit. As trade talks with the European Union continue, the prime minister will take questions in Parliament and is likely to be put under pressure by senior Tories who fear the move will undermine ...

Bloomberg An anti-graft court in Pakistan indicted former President Asif Ali Zardari and declared ex-premier Nawaz Sharif an absconder in corruption cases, the latest move in multiple legal proceedings against the political opponents of Prime Minister Imran Khan. An accountability court judge, Syed Asghar Ali, framed charges against Zardari, the co-Chairman of opposition Pakistan Peoples Party for illegally accepting gifts ...

Bloomberg The biggest refugee camp in Greece by numbers was evacuated after a fire broke out early on Wednesday. The Moria camp on the island of Lesvos hosts around 13,000 refugees. Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis held an extraordinary inter-ministerial meeting in Athens to review the situation and to decide on measures needed to deal with the situation, according to his ...

Bloomberg Negotiations between Asean countries and China over a Code of Conduct for the South China Sea will resume no later than November, Philippines Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin said during a virtual meeting of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. The talks come as territorial tensions in the sea are on the rise with countries such as Vietnam pushing ...

Bloomberg Thailand’s outgoing central bank governor said public debt restrictions should be eased to allow the government to spend more as monetary policy options dwindle with interest rates already at an all-time low. Given the severity of the pandemic-driven downturn, Governor Veerathai Santiprabhob said his “personal view is that the 60% public debt-to-GDP limit can be relaxed.” The limit was ...