Police arrested 31 people in connection with plans to disrupt Saturday’s Epsom Derby, including a man who was detained after running onto the track, as major sporting events in Britain continue to be affected by protests. Last month, protest group Animal Rising issued a call for volunteers to help disrupt the event by entering the…
Systems Error Affecting Electronic Gates Leaves Travelers to UK Waiting for Hours
LONDON—Travelers arriving in the UK faced long delays Saturday after a technical problem shut electronic border gates at airports across the country for most of the day, forcing everyone to have their passports checked manually on what was expected to be one of the busiest travel weekends of the year. The Home Office, the government…
UK Government Seeks to Mitigate Workforce Disruption From Omicron
January 3, 2022
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LONDON—The British government has asked public sector managers to test their contingency plans against a worst-case scenario of 25 percent staff absence as part of efforts to minimise disruption from the rapid spread of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus. With daily infection numbers at a record high and people who test positive required to…
Just 3 Percent of CEOs Say COVID-19 Is Their Top Worry: Report
While the fear of getting fired has risen sharply among C-suite executives due to various disruptive forces buffeting their businesses, a mere 3 percent identified COVID-19 as their top worry, according to the CEO of management consultancy AlixPartners. In a Dec. 27 interview with Yahoo Finance, AlixPartners CEO Simon Freakley previewed some of the topline findings…
German Industrial Production Slumps on Supply Chain Disruption
BERLIN—German industrial output suffered its steepest drop in August since April last year, due to supply chain disruptions that are holding back growth in Europe’s biggest economy and hitting the auto sector particularly hard, official data showed on Thursday. The Federal Statistics Office said industrial output fell by 4.0 percent on the month after an…
Japan Factory Output Seen Down Again in August on Supply Chain Disruption: Poll
September 24, 2021
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TOKYO—Japan’s factory output likely fell again in August as the country’s manufacturing sector faced supply chain disruptions driven by a global chip shortage and the spread of the Delta coronavirus variant in Southeast Asia. Retail sales also likely eased in August after a sharp rise in July, according to the poll, underscoring the fragility of…
Amazon Restores Service After Global Outage
Amazon said its online stores had returned to normal services after a global outage disrupted shopping on its country sites. According to outage monitoring website Downdetector, services were disrupted for nearly two hours and at the peak of the disruption, more than 38,000 user reports indicated issues with Amazon’s online stores. They occurred on Sunday…
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