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There are eight contenders for the director general of World Trade Organization as Roberto Azevedo steps down on Monday.

The shorter-hours programme - Kurzarbeit, sees the German government cover around two-thirds of workers' wages when employers slash their hours to save costs.

The study is the first one that showed the link between developing type 1 diabetes and COVID-19 in children.

The announcement came on the sixth anniversary of the killing by IS of James Foley, a journalist who worked for AFP and other news organisations.

Britain had initially imposed a blanket quarantine on all visitors arriving in the country, but later carved out "travel corridors".

The pound rallied on the update, which included news that the BoE held its main interest rate at a record-low 0.1 percent.

Fresh clusters have been reported in countries that had previously brought their outbreaks under control.

The British government's hastily-imposed new rules announced Saturday follow a dramatic spike in virus cases in mainland Spain.

Foreign Minister Winston Peters said "New Zealand can no longer trust that Hong Kong's criminal justice system is sufficiently independent from China".

Britain has now edged closer to US President Donald Trump's administration in its geopolitical tug-of-war with China.

The accusations came even before the publication of a long-awaited British parliamentary report into alleged Russian interference in the 2016 Brexit vote.

The British government bowed to growing US pressure and pledged Tuesday to remove Chinese telecoms giant Huawei from its 5G network by 2027.

The move threatens to further damage Britain's ties with China and costs huge for UK mobile providers that relied on Huawei equipment for nearly 20 years.

The country is currently in a standstill transition period until the end of the year as it tries to negotiate a new trade deal with Brussels.

France's new Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin and his British counterpart Priti Patel met on Sunday in Calais in northern France.

The new base is a hotel overlooking the city's Victoria Park, a location that has hosted pro-democracy protests for years.

Finance minister Rishi Sunak is due to deliver his spending plans at 1130 GMT, having already flagged £3 billion of green investment.

Travellers arriving into Britain from Germany, France, Spain and Italy will no longer be required to self-isolate starting July 10.

The death of George Floyd, an unarmed black man, during a US police arrest has sparked a wave of Black Lives Matter protests across the country.

The legislation was unanimously approved by China's rubber-stamp parliament on Tuesday morning.

The new round of talks in Brussels will be the first to be held face-to-face since the coronavirus shutdown.

Several countries continued to loosen up, including in Britain where pubs, restaurants, hotels and cinemas were told they could open again from July 4.

The police said three people were also seriously injured and a 25-year-old resident of the historic town 60 kilometres west of London was detained.

Macron's visit will mark 80 years since Charles de Gaulle made his famous call to a defeated France from London not to give in to the Nazis.

There have been Black Lives Matter demonstrations in cities across the United Kingdom since the police killing of George Floyd.

Local council leaders said they would take down the life-sized statue in the English south coast town of Poole to 'minimise the risk of any public disorder'.

The UK government also intends to reopen all stores on June 15.

About 350,000 people in Hong Kong currently hold British National (Overseas) passports, which allow visa-free access to Britain for up to six months.

Britain is expected to ask for any extension to the post-Brexit transition and so is on track to leave the single market and EU customs union on December 31.

The boy is too young to be charged for the possession of drugs with the intent to supply.