Новости за 25.05.2020

The German government and Deutsche Lufthansa said they have agreed on a $9.81 billion bailout deal—one of the biggest aid packages by a single country hatched so far in the pandemic-hit air travel sector.

With his plan to impose sweeping antisedition legislation on Hong Kong, Chinese leader Xi Jinping has revealed a willingness to alter the onetime British colony’s special status as a self-governing city with a speed and scope that has surprised many.

The coronavirus has been the proverbial tide going out, exposing who’s swimming naked: Troubled companies and business models are being undone, and the rental-car giant is a prime example.

The investigation into Friday’s deadly crash in Karachi will examine whether the jet’s engines were damaged in an aborted first landing, causing a loss of power when the plane circled around for a second attempt.

Housing is often the most immediate way the Federal Reserve transmits lower interest rates to the economy, as homeowners refinance to free up cash and as home buying spurs construction and spending. But the downturn and prepandemic regulations are making lenders skittish.

A return to balance would be commercially unviable. The best solution may be an honest embrace of bias.

In response, the U.S. needs better engineering to detect sabotage and a move to more domestic production.

Why have steaks become so expensive? Ask a meat packer.

Trump thrives on conflict but may pay a price for alienating America’s allies.

‘The Democratic party holds black people in an abusive relationship but says you cannot leave because the other option is more abusive.’

People are winging it with home remedies to treat acne in quarantine: honey, toothpaste, face stickers.

Germany’s highest civil court ruled against Volkswagen in the first case brought by customers seeking damages in connection with the car maker’s emissions-cheating scandal, a landmark ruling that could herald further litigation against Volkswagen and some competitors.

A day after he appeared in court on corruption charges, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu maintained a fiery public defense that risked deepening divisions in Israel’s fractured politics.

The status quo before the pandemic won’t return. New investment for new opportunities is crucial.

Family breakdown causes serious disadvantages when it comes to college.

China created a smartphone tool to trace and track the movement of potential coronavirus patients. Now, plans to make that kind of health tracking permanent are stirring concerns in a country where personal privacy was once said to be an afterthought.

Many developing countries are easing restrictions, saying they cause too much economic pain, while new infections and deaths are growing.

Europe’s banks have built enough buffers to face the effects of the coronavirus pandemic, but not all will be able to weather a sharp fall in profitability as loans turn sour and the cost of raising funds rise, a banking regulator said.

Billionaire Bernard Arnault agreed to take a stake in the holdings of the controlling shareholder of media conglomerate Lagardère, giving a financial lifeline to a longtime friend whose debts were undermining his control of the company.

Going to zero troops by October in Afghanistan would repeat the Obama-Biden mistake in Iraq.

Congress can fix Treasury’s mistakes on paycheck protection.

Italian politicians threatened to reinstate restrictions on people’s movements and announced plans to recruit 60,000 unemployed volunteers to help oversee social distancing, after thousands of Italians celebrated the end of the country’s lockdown by going out for a drink.

Repatriations of Americans stranded abroad following abrupt border closings from the coronavirus have topped 90,000, and the number is still rising. The evacuation of Bert Hewitt from the mountains of Bhutan highlights the extent of the State Department’s program to bring Americans caught in precarious circumstances home.

Global trade flows tumbled in the first quarter, a preview of what could be the largest contraction in international commerce in decades, as the coronavirus pandemic causes policy makers and multinationals to reconsider globe-spanning supply chains that have become a defining feature of the world economy.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson faced a rebellion in his own party after he defended a top aide accused of sowing confusion over lockdown rules by driving his child and sick wife more than 250 miles from London to be near his family in northern England.