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Shares of Boeing slid ten percent after China, Indonesia and Ethiopia ordered airlines to ground their Boeing 737 MAX 8 planes following the second deadly crash involving the jet in just five months. The losses put the stock on course for its biggest daily fall in nearly two decades, halting a surge that has seen Boeing’s market value triple in just over three years to a record high of $446 per share. A Nairobi-bound Boeing 737 MAX 8 operated by Ethiopian Airlines crashed minutes after takeoff from Addis Ababa on Sunday, killing all 157 on board. The same model, flown…

DUBLIN (Reuters) – Ryanair has triggered contingency plans to restrict the voting rights of British shareholders if it leaves the European Union without a deal on future relations or quits both the EU customs union and single market in a “hard” Brexit scenario. Ryanair announced last year it would have to restrict the rights if UK shareholders ceased to qualify as European Union nationals to ensure it remained majority EU-owned to comply with its licensing and flight rights. Its board passed a number of resolutions on Friday which will become effective on the date British nationals become non-EU nationals, Europe’s…

With the news last week that Amazon has banned Mohammed’s Koran: Why Muslims Kill for Islam, co-authored by British activist Tommy Robinson and Peter McLoughlin, Amazon has crossed a very dangerous and precarious line. Two immediate questions come to mind. First, why ban a book critiquing Islam when a host of other books critiquing – other religious faiths are available on Amazon? Second, why ban this book and not other books that critique Islam? Why draw the line here? Which books and authors will be next? Perhaps our books opposing LGBT activism or exposing the evils of abortion will be…

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed gave his condolences to the family and friends of the 157 people killed when an Ethiopian Airlines passenger jet bound for Nairobi crashed minutes after take-off on Sunday Speaking in a televised address, Ahmed described the incident as “shocking and tragic” and said the causes of the accident would be investigated and made public. Flight ET 302, registration number ET-AVJ, crashed 38 miles southeast of the capital Addis Ababa, with 149 passengers and eight crew aboard, the airline said.

Just one in three entrepreneurs in the UK is female and closing the gender gap could generate an extra £250bn for the economy, a government review has found. The disparity in women-run firms represents more than a million “missing businesses”, according to the Treasury-commissioned report. It also found businesses run by women are on average half the size of male-led firms and far less likely to scale up to a £1m turnover. In response to the review, carried out by Alison Rose, deputy chief executive of NatWest, banks and other lenders are being encouraged to publish what proportion of investment…

The U.S. ambassador for religious freedom, Sam Brownback, on Friday called on Beijing to end religious persecution in China, while requesting a visit to the country’s mass internment camps in the western region of Xinjiang. In a strongly worded speech during a visit to Hong Kong, Brownback said Beijing was “on the wrong side of history” and needed to “hear the cries of its own people for religious freedom”

A Christian woman cleared of blasphemy in Pakistan is said to be “very unwell” and is reportedly being denied medical care in protective custody. Asia Bibi, who was moved to a safe house in Karachi after her acquittal was upheld by the country’s Supreme Court last month, is reportedly experiencing very low blood pressure. A source told reporters: “Everyone is very worried. She won her appeal and was supposed to be out of Pakistan by now. Let’s continue to pray for fellow Christians around the world that they are protected from wicked and unreasonable men and they continually walk in…

In UK political news, Britain may have to delay its departure from the European Union if Parliament do not agree the government’s proposed Brexit deal in a vote next week, Chancellor Philip Hammond said. Britain is due to leave the EU in 22 days, but if Mp’s reject the deal this will put in doubt how, when or possibly even if Britain’s biggest foreign and trade policy shift in more than 40 years will take place.

A desperately-needed global movement to push for religious freedom rights worldwide has begun, U.S. Ambassador for Religious Freedom Sam Brownback said at a United Nations event focused on religious freedom. The event kicked off by moderator Monsignor Tomasz Grysa, the deputy permanent observer of the Holy See to the U.N, who said that “the protection of the right to religious freedom must be one of the most urgent responsibilities of the international community.” He laid out the troubling landscape for religious freedom worldwide and said there has been a steady rise in persecution and discrimination against Christians and other religious…

Carmakers at the Geneva Motor Show unveiled some of their hybrid and electric models as they go forward in implementing the EU’s plans to slash carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from vehicles. The European Parliament and EU countries struck an agreement in December to cut emissions from cars by 37.5 percent by 2030, compared with 2021, and by 31 percent from vans. Renault will introduce hybrid versions of its top-selling models as the European auto industry races to meet tightening emissions goals.