News Headlines - 22 February 2020

▽Clint Eastwood shows support for Michael Bloomberg - CNNPolitics

Actor and director Clint Eastwood, a longtime supporter of Republican candidates, appeared to back Democratic candidate Michael Bloomberg for president and criticized President Donald Trump's behavior in office in an interview published in The Wall Street Journal Friday.
"The best thing we could do is just get Mike Bloomberg in there," the Hollywood conservative said of the former New York mayor, according to the Journal.
Eastwood told the newspaper that he approves of "certain things" that Trump has done as President, without going into further detail.
He said, however, that he wishes Trump would behave "in a more genteel way, without tweeting and calling people names," the Journal reported.

▽Michael Bloomberg would sell his company if elected president, adviser says - CNNPolitics

Michael Bloomberg would sell his financial information and media company if he's elected president in an effort to be "180 degrees away from where Donald Trump is on these issues," an adviser to his campaign said Tuesday.
The comments come amid a barrage of attacks on Bloomberg from his Democratic rivals over how he's used the vast fortune he built through Bloomberg LP into a barrage of breathless advertising and an enormous campaign staff in the 2020 presidential race.

▽French ADP buys 49% of India's GMR Airports for 1.34bn euros - Nikkei Asian Review

French airports operator ADP, which operates Paris airports Roissy and Orly, has bought a 49% stake in India's GMR Airports for 1.34 billion euros ($1.45 billion), ADP said on Thursday.
GMR Airports has a portfolio of seven airports in three countries: India, the Philippines and Greece. ADP said the Delhi and Hyderabad airports in India and the Mactan-Cebu airport in the Philippines together handled a total of 102 million passengers in 2019.

▽The HondaJet is the Most Delivered Aircraft in its Class for Third Consecutive Year

Honda Aircraft Company announced today that the HondaJet was the most delivered aircraft in its class in 2019, based on numbers provided by the General Aviation Manufacturers Association (GAMA). During 2019, Honda Aircraft Company delivered 36 aircraft to customers globally, becoming the most delivered very light jet for the third consecutive year.

▽Japanese mission to land a rover on a Martian moon and bring back a sample is a go | TechCrunch

A bold mission by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) to Mars’ two moons, including a lander component for one of them, is all set to enter the development phase after the plan was submitted to the Japanese government’s science ministry this week.
Dubbed the “Martian Moons Exploration” (MMX) mission, the goal is to launch the probe in 2024, using the new H-3 rocket being developed by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, which is expected to launch for the first time sometime later in 2020. The probe will survey and observe both Phobos and Deimos, the two moons that orbit the Red Planet, which are both smaller and more irregularly shaped than Earth’s Moon.