SEE ALSO: Things look up for key sectors in Sh53.7b State spending planBut not all the news from Europe was encouraging. And in Britain, a political scandal raged on as Prime Minister Boris Johnson defied pressure to sack his top aide Dominic Cummings, accused of breaching the government's own lockdown rules in March and April. In Asia, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe ended a nationwide state of emergency after new cases slowed to a crawl. Trump has also threatened to pull the Republican National Convention out of North Carolina in protest at the state's slow lifting of virus restrictions. India -- which has imposed the world's biggest lockdown -- resumed domestic flights on Monday, with the government desperate to get Asia's third-largest economy moving again.

Source: Standard Digital May 26, 2020 05:11 UTC