News Headlines - 13 November 2020

▽Dominic Cummings to leave Downing Street by Christmas - BBC News

Boris Johnson's senior adviser Dominic Cummings is expected to leave his position by the end of the year.
Mr Cummings told the BBC "rumours of me threatening to resign are invented", after speculation this week.
But he added that his "position hasn't changed since my January blog" when he said that he wanted to make himself "largely redundant" by the end of 2020.... It comes after Lee Cain - the director of communications and an ally of Mr Cummings - stood down amid reports of internal tensions at Downing Street.

▽Zambia on brink of defaulting on foreign debt - BBC News

Zambia is on the brink of defaulting on its foreign debt after it missed a payment of more than $40m (￡30m) last month.
A so-called grace period will expire on Friday, which would make it Africa's first country to default on sovereign debt since the coronavirus pandemic.
Zambia was already struggling with its $12bn external debt load.
But coronavirus has aggravated pre-existing financial pressures in the country.

▽Aung San Suu Kyi party wins enough seats to form Myanmar's next government - CNN

The ruling party of Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi has won enough parliamentary seats to form the next government, according to official results of a general election released on Friday.
The latest batch of results from Sunday's vote confirmed Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) had secured the 322 seats in the bicameral legislature needed to form a government.
The NLD has taken 346 seats of the 412 seats that have been declared, with results from 64 more yet to be announced.

▽Princess Mako says marriage plan is still on despite delay : The Asahi Shimbun

Princess Mako said the plan for her to marry Kei Komuro is still on, despite more than two years having passed since the postponement of the marriage was announced... The princess described her close relationship with Komuro, who is also 29, to assuage concerns about the lengthy delay... But the next steps for the couple in fulfilling their marriage plans remain unknown.

▽Critics speak out on Tokyo Olympic costs, pandemic, fairness

About 30 anti-Olympic protesters showed up Sunday outside the gymnastic event. They distributed leaflets and warned Bach in their handout that they would be around when he arrives “to deliver our message to cancel the Olympics.”... Protesters say the Olympics have diverted billions from the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster recovery. In addition, they oppose the overwhelming use of public money and argue the Olympics landed in Japan because of an IOC vote-buying bribery scandal.