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Airbus issues major A320 recall after flight-control incident
Airbus said in a statement a recent incident involving an A320-family aircraft had revealed that intense solar radiation may corrupt data critical to the functioning of flight controls
International News via Reuters:
Europe’s Airbus said on Friday it was ordering an immediate software change on a “significant number” of its best-selling A320 family of jets in a move that industry sources said would bring disruption to half the global fleet, or thousands of jets.
The move must be carried out before the next routine flight, according to a separate bulletin to airlines seen by Reuters, threatening cancellations or delays during one of the busiest travel weekends of the year in the United States and beyond.
Airbus said in a statement a recent incident involving an A320-family aircraft had revealed that intense solar radiation may corrupt data critical to the functioning of flight controls.
“Airbus acknowledges these recommendations will lead to operational disruptions to passengers and customers,” it said.
Industry sources said the incident that triggered the unexpected repair action involved a JetBlue flight from Cancun, Mexico, to Newark, New Jersey, on October 30, in which several passengers were hurt following a sharp loss of altitude.
Flight 1230 made an emergency landing at Tampa, Florida, after a flight control problem and a sudden uncommanded drop in altitude, prompting an FAA investigation.
JetBlue and the FAA had no immediate comment.
The European Union Aviation Safety Agency is due to issue an emergency directive mandating the fix, Airbus said.
‘TWO HOUR’ REPAIR
For about two-thirds of the affected jets, the recall will result in a relatively brief grounding as airlines revert to a previous software version, industry sources said.
Still, that comes at a time of intense demands on airline repair shops, already plagued by shortages of maintenance capacity and the grounding of hundreds of Airbus jets due to long waiting times for separate engine repairs or inspections.
Hundreds of the affected jets may also have to have hardware changed, threatening much longer waits, the sources said.
Some 3,000 A320-family jets were in the air worldwide shortly after the Airbus announcement.
American Airlines and Hungary’s Wizz Air said they had already identified which of their aircraft would need the software fix. United Airlines said it was not impacted.
American, in a statement, said about 340 of its 480 A320 aircraft require the software replacement, and it expects the majority of those fixes to be “complete today and tomorrow,” with about two hours required for each plane.
There are around 11,300 A320-family aircraft in operation, including 6,440 of the core A320 model, which first flew in 1987.
The setback appears to be among the largest mass recalls affecting Airbus in its 55-year history and comes weeks after the A320 overtook the Boeing 737 as the most-delivered model.
The A320 was the first mainstream jetliner to introduce fly-by-wire computer controls.
The bulletin seen by Reuters traced the problem to a flight system called ELAC (Elevator and Aileron Computer), which sends commands from the pilot’s side-stick to elevators at the rear. These in turn control the aircraft’s pitch or nose angle.
The computer’s manufacturer, France’s Thales said in response to a Reuters query that the computer complies with Airbus specifications and the functionality in question is supported by software that is not under Thales’ responsibility.
Reporting by Tim Hepher, Allison Lampert, David Shepardson, Dan Catchpole, Editing by Louise Heavens and Chris Reese
Exclusive-The Economist stake draws interest as deadline approaches, sources say
At least a dozen parties, including ultra wealthy individuals and media companies, have already shown preliminary interest, one of the people said
International News via Reuters:
The sale of a large stake in the storied Economist publication is coming to a head this week, as bidders submit expressions of interest by Friday’s deadline for a 27% stake, three people familiar with the matter said.
At least a dozen parties, including ultra wealthy individuals and media companies, have already shown preliminary interest, one of the people said.
It’s been a decade since anyone has been able to buy a share close to this size, not since Britain’s Pearson sold its 50% stake in 2015 to the holding group of the wealthy Italian Agnelli family, for 469 million pounds ($531 million), ending its near-60-year ownership in the magazine.
Philanthropist Lynn Forester de Rothschild is putting the banking dynasty’s share of The Economist up for sale three years after the death of her husband Evelyn de Rothschild, who chaired the company from 1972 to 1989, according to the people, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the matter is private.
Requests for comment from the Rothschild family and The Economist weren’t immediately returned.
Founded in 1843, the publication’s shareholding total nearly 1,000, with Exor, a holding vehicle for Italy’s Agnelli family, owning a 43.4% stake and the Rothschilds owning 27%, according to the Economist’s annual results.
The sale is made more complex as The Economist’s governance is structured to ensure the editorial process at the 182-year-old publication remains independent, prohibiting any one individual or company from owning a controlling stake in the corporate parent.
The sale of the Economist comes at a time when there are few opportunities to buy into highly coveted British media empires. The owner of the Daily Mail, DMGT, recently stepped in to scoop up the Telegraph Media Group after UK regulators banned foreign ownership of UK newspapers.
The move forced U.S.-based Redbird Capital to withdraw its 500 million pound ($658.5 million) joint bid with Abu Dhabi-backed IMI for the Telegraph.
The Economist is profitable and has been growing its subscriber base. First-half revenue for the six months ended Sept. 30th 2025, was 170 million pounds and operating profit was 20 million, up 23% on the year prior, according to its most recent published figures.
The sale of the Rothschild stake, which includes about 20% in voting shares, could value the media company at around 800 million pounds ($1.06 billion), a person familiar with the matter said.
Two top U.S. media executives said a stake in The Economist would give ultra-wealthy people access to even more elite circles.
“Even if you’re at Davos, it’s crowded. But The Economist gets you respect,” one media CEO said. “It will open a lot of interesting doors.”
Reporting by Dawn Kopecki in New York and Amy-Jo Crowley in London. Editing by Anousha Sakoui and Nick Zieminski
Brent oil price stable, WTI up 1% after trade resumes
U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude futures resumed trading after being frozen due to a system outage at exchange operator CME Group
International News via Reuters:
Brent crude oil futures were flat on Friday and U.S. crude futures rose as drawn-out Russia-Ukraine peace talks kept geopolitical risks elevated and traders kept an eye on Sunday’s OPEC+ meeting for clues about potential output changes.
U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude futures resumed trading after being frozen due to a system outage at exchange operator CME Group, blamed on a cooling issue at CyrusOne data centres. Brent trades on the Intercontinental Exchange, or ICE.
Front-month Brent crude futures for January, which expire on Friday, were up 6 cents, or 0.09%, at $63.40 a barrel at 12:44 p.m. EDT (1744 GMT). The more active February contract changed hands at $63.24, up 37 cents, or 0.59%.
WTI crude traded at $59.47 a barrel, up 82 cents, or 1.4%, from Wednesday’s close. There was no settlement on Thursday due to the Thanksgiving holiday in the U.S.
LONGEST LOSING STREAK SINCE 2023
Despite being up more than 1% for the week, both contracts are headed for a fourth straight monthly loss, their longest losing streak since 2023, as expectations for higher global supply weighed on prices.
The strength of fuel refining profit margins has supported crude demand in some places, but the bearish impact of an expected oil surplus is pressuring prices, said Rystad analyst Janiv Shah.
U.S. oil production rose to record highs in September, data from the Energy Information Administration showed on Friday, deepening concerns that the market is heading towards a surplus.
U.S. crude oil output rose 44,000 barrels per day in September to a record 13.84 million bpd, according to the EIA data. [EIA/PSM]
A Reuters survey of 35 economists and analysts showed respondents expect Brent to average $62.23 per barrel in 2026, down from October’s forecast of $63.15. The benchmark has averaged $68.80 per barrel so far in 2025, LSEG data showed. [O/POLL]
Signs that a peace deal between Ukraine and Russia might be close pushed oil prices down sharply earlier this week, but they have recovered over the past three sessions as negotiations dragged on.
“Futures had been anticipating some sort of a peace agreement which has kept pressure on prices,” Dennis Kissler, senior vice president of trading at BOK Financial, said in a note on Friday.
“Still, little is known at this time, and no agreement will likely mean even tighter sanctions on Russia’s oil exports.”
On Sunday, OPEC+ is likely to leave oil output levels unchanged at its meetings and to agree on a mechanism to assess members’ maximum production capacity, two delegates from the group and a source familiar with the group’s talks told Reuters.
Saudi Arabia, the world’s biggest oil exporter, is expected to lower its January crude price for Asian buyers for a second month to its lowest in five years, under pressure from ample supplies and the surplus outlook, sources told Reuters on Friday.
Reporting by Georgina McCartney in Houston, Robert Harvey and Seher Dareen in London, Mohi Narayan in New Delhi and Florence Tan in Singapore; Editing by Elaine Hardcastle, Conor Humphries and Jan Harvey
National Guard shooting suspect to face murder charges, Trump to freeze ‘Third World’ migration
U.S. Attorney for Washington, D.C., Jeanine Pirro, said on Friday that there will be other charges as well against 29-year-old Rahmanullah Lakanwal
International News via Reuters:
The Afghan man accused of shooting two National Guard members will face first-degree murder charges for an attack that prompted President Donald Trump to declare he would freeze migration from “Third World Countries” to the U.S.
U.S. Attorney for Washington, D.C., Jeanine Pirro, said on Friday that there will be other charges as well against 29-year-old Rahmanullah Lakanwal, who she said ambushed the National Guardsmen from West Virginia near the White House on Wednesday.
In a Thanksgiving call with U.S. military service members on Thursday Trump called the shootings a “terrorist attack” and officials have said they were conducting a terrorism probe into Wednesday’s shooting.
“What happened at that crime is unmistakable. It is a premeditated murder,” Pirro told Fox News’ “Fox and Friends” program. “We are upgrading the initial charges of assault to murder in the first degree,” she said.
Sarah Beckstrom, 20, died of her wounds on Thursday. Pirro told Fox that Beckstrom’s fellow Guardsman Andrew Wolfe, 24, was in critical condition.
On his Truth Social platform late Thursday, Trump escalated his rhetoric on immigration. Since taking office this year he has stepped up arrests of immigrants in the U.S. illegally, cracked down on unlawful border crossings and stripped legal status from hundreds of thousands of people.
“I will permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries to allow the U.S. system to fully recover, terminate all of the millions of Biden illegal admissions, including those signed by Sleepy Joe Biden’s autopen, and remove anyone who is not a net asset to the United States,” Trump said on Truth Social, referring to his predecessor.
After taking office in 2021, Biden reversed many of Trump’s restrictive immigration policies from his first term, saying they blocked people in need of humanitarian protection and were unfairly discriminatory.
Trump did not name any countries. Asked about “Third World” countries, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security on Friday referred Reuters to 19 countries listed in a June travel ban.
Earlier, Homeland Security officials had said Trump ordered a widespread review of asylum cases approved under the Biden administration and green cards issued to citizens of the 19 countries, which include Afghanistan.
SHOOTING PROMPTS SWEEPING MIGRATION REVIEWS
Lakanwal entered the U.S. in 2021 through Operation Allies Welcome, a Biden-era immigration program to resettle thousands of Afghans who helped the U.S. during the war and feared reprisal from Taliban forces who seized control after the U.S. withdrawal.
More than 70,000 Afghans have been resettled in the U.S. under the program. Officials said Lakanwal was part of a CIA-backed unit in Afghanistan before coming to the U.S. He was granted asylum this year under Trump, according to a U.S. government file on him seen by Reuters.
Investigators said Lakanwal drove across the country from his home in the state of Washington and shot the two Guardsmen with a powerful revolver, a .357 Magnum, before being wounded in an exchange of gunfire with other troops.
The shootings may give Trump an opening to argue that even legal pathways like asylum pose security risks for Americans.
Less than 24 hours after the shooting, Trump officials began ordering widespread reviews of immigration policies.
Lakanwal lived in Washington state with his wife and five children, according to investigators. Asked whether he was planning to deport the suspect’s wife and five children who live in Washington state, Trump has said, “We’re looking at the whole situation with family.”
INTERNATIONAL GROUPS DEFEND ASYLUM SEEKER RIGHTS
U.N. agencies appealed to Washington to continue allowing asylum seekers access to the country and to be given due process.
“We expect all countries, including the United States, to honour their commitments under the 1953 Refugee Convention,” Farhan Haq, the deputy spokesperson for the U.N. secretary general, told Reuters.
U.N. human rights office spokesperson Jeremy Laurence told a Geneva press briefing: “They are entitled to protection under international law, and that should be given due process.”
Jasmin Lilian Diab, director of the Institute for Migration at the Lebanese American University, said freezing Afghan applications or reconsidering thousands of approved asylum claims would disrupt families and local communities and erode the integrity of the migration system.
“While the recent incident is tragic, using an isolated incident to justify mass restrictions is inconsistent with evidence showing no link between refugee arrivals and increased crime,” Diab told Reuters.
Reporting by Jasper Ward, Bhargav Acharya and Ted Hesson; Writing by David Morgan; editing by Donna Bryson and Deepa Babington
Police report overturned car at St. David’s Road junction
Officers found a motorcar overturned involved in the collision and resting on its roof
Full press release from the Bermuda Police Service:
Around 11:15 a.m. today, Friday, November 28, 2025, Police and other first responders attended a single vehicle collision involving a motorcar near the junction of St. David’s Road and Bay Estates Road, St. Georges.
Upon arrival officers found the motorcar overturned and resting on its roof.
Initial reports indicate there were two persons inside the vehicle at the time of the incident.
The passenger, who reportedly sustained an injury in the collision, left the scene prior to police arrival.
The extent of that person’s reported injury is unknown.
The driver complained of pain to his legs.
There were no significant traffic delays as a result of this incident and the roadway was cleared just over an hour later.
Anyone with information on this collision is asked to call the main police number 295-0011, or the non-emergency reporting number 211.
Plan ahead for these weekend road closures
Traffic controls in place at Bailey Bridge in St. George’s all weekend and on Curving Avenue in Pembroke on Sunday
The Government issued the following road traffic notices.
Single Lane Closure for Bridge Repair Works, St. George’s
The Ministry of Public Works and Environment wishes to inform the motoring public that there will be a single lane closure on the Bailey Bridge, in the outbound direction from St. George’s, at the Northern end of the Causeway, to accommodate bridge repair works.
The lane closure will commence on Saturday, November 29th, 2025, and will remain in place until Sunday, November 30th, 2025. Working hours will be between 7:30 am and 5:00 pm.
Traffic control will be under the direction of representatives from the Ministry of Public Works and Environment and managed with signage, barricades, and stop/go boards.
Motorists travelling through the closure area should expect delays and exercise caution.
The Ministry of Public Works and Environment encourages the full cooperation of the motoring public and apologises for any inconvenience that may result.
Road Closure for the Christmas on the Curve Event, Pembroke
The Ministry of Public Works and Environment wishes to inform the motoring public that there will be a road closure on Curving Avenue, Pembroke Parish, to accommodate the Christmas on the Curve event.
The road closure will occur on Sunday, November 30th, 2025, from 12:00 pm to 7:00 pm, and will extend from King Street to 17 Curving Avenue.
Traffic control will be under the direction of representatives from the Church of God Prophecy.
Motorists are advised to avoid the area and use alternative routes via Parsons Road and Happy Valley Road.
The Ministry of Public Works and Environment encourages the full cooperation of the motoring public and apologises for any inconvenience that may result.
