U.S. caps charter flights to Cuba at 3,600 per year: agency
The U.S. Transportation Department said Thursday it will cap charter flights to Cuba at 3,600 per year as the Trump administration moves to curb the Cuban government’s access to revenue.
Mexican president to restart trips in spite of coronavirus spike
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Thursday said he would next week resume tours of the country, which he had suspended due to the coronavirus outbreak, even though fatalities and new infections have just hit record levels.
Paris to reopen parks and public gardens on June 2: mayor
Paris will reopen parks and public gardens from June 2, the city’s mayor said on Thursday on its websites.
Crashed Pakistan plane hit runway three times on first approach: minister
The captain of a Pakistani airliner that crashed last week, killing 97 people on board, approached Karachi airport without announcing he couldn’t open his landing gear and hit the runway three times, a government minister said on Thursday.
The new workplace? Central and eastern Europe may be closer than most
When Mario Pereira’s Polish colleague, sitting not far from him in a Warsaw office, sent him an email rather than walking over to speak, the Portuguese was shocked.
UK will increase visa rights if China pursues Hong Kong security law: BBC
Britain will give greater visa rights to British national overseas (BNO) passport holders from Hong Kong unless China suspends its proposed security laws, foreign minister Dominic Raab said in an interview reported by the BBC on Thursday.
Norway eases Nordic business travel rules, including Sweden
Norway will allow entry to business travellers from all the other Nordic countries from June 1, in a further easing of coronavirus restrictions, the government said on Thursday, making no distinction for Sweden.
Apartment-bound Ukrainians check out portable homes
Business is thriving for a company manufacturing portable houses in Ukraine as people cooped up in tower blocks under lockdown yearn to live closer to nature.
Germany calls in Russian envoy over hack attack
Germany’s foreign ministry called in the Russian ambassador in Berlin on Thursday to complain “in the strongest possible terms” about a hack attack on the German lower house of parliament in 2015 and discuss possible sanctions against those responsible…
Twenty-seven killed in central Mali ethnic attacks, local officials say
Armed men on motorcycles killed 27 civilians in central Mali in three attacks on ethnic Dogon farming villages in less than 24 hours, local officials said on Thursday.
