“The state is not going to pick up the tab for businesses’ operating losses each time there’s a new pandemic,” Le Maire said in an online interview session with Le Monde newspaper.

France urges parts review after Airbus A380 engine blowout

Oct 2, 2020

France’s BEA agency made the recommendation in a final report into the accident in which an Air France jet carrying more than 500 passengers lost the front section of one of its four engines while flying over Greenland, before landing safely in Canada.

The move follows a perilous investigation involving a 21-month international aerial and ground search across the ice sheet to find a crucial titanium alloy fragment, buried 3 metres below the surface and just a metre away from a hidden crevasse.

UK regulator, insurers, brace for Supreme Court battle over COVID-19 case

Oct 2, 2020

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) had set a late Wednesday deadline for talks with insurers, such as QBE and RSA, to ensure eligible business interruption (BI) claims would be paid speedily, after the High Court ruled that thousands had been wrongly rejected.

COVID-19 controls turn Asia into global surveillance hotspot, analysts say

Oct 1, 2020

“Asia as a region risks sleep-walking into serious privacy breaches if there isn’t transparency when it comes to data use with respect to COVID-19 surveillance measures,” said Sofia Nazalya, a human rights analyst at Verisk Maplecroft.

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