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Economists worry that surging global inflation will continue to weigh on the world's economic recovery.

The stance underlined a hardening Western approach to China

Britain will still introduce full customs declarations and controls on January 1, 2022, as planned.

In the 19 states that use the euro single currency, the average debt is expected to reach 102 percent of GDP at the end of the year.

Britain's reported new strategy has been trialled for months, overseen by the Royal Marines

According to recent estimates, the UK currently faces a shortage of about 100,000 lorry drivers.

Only six percent of people in lower and lower-middle income countries in Europe are fully vaccinated

Libya remains one of the main departure points for tens of thousands of migrants hoping to attempt the dangerous Mediterranean crossing

Turkey's defence ministry released satellite images showing the extent of the damage, with forest areas turned black and smoke still visible.

The UK singled out France due to the government's concern over the "persistent presence" of the Beta variant

The cause of the explosion, which was heard several kilometres away and sent a column of black smoke into the air, was not yet known.

France recorded almost 23,000 new Covid-19 cases on Saturday, twice as many as last week, as the Delta variant caused a surge.

Germany joins a number of European nations that have seen cases climb in recent weeks fuelled by the Delta variant, first detected in India.

The restrictions have even faced criticism from some lawmakers in Macron's Republic on the Move (LREM) party, who see it as a threat to civil liberties.

Sanofi and GSK said in May that they would launch final trials after finding their drug "achieved strong rates of neutralising antibody responses" in Phase 2 clinical trials.

Waters have subsided since Friday but workers and volunteers face a mammoth task to clear away the detritus and help local residents rebuild their shattered lives.

In some areas, police deployed speedboats and divers to retrieve bodies.

Because a warmer atmosphere holds more water, climate change increases the risk and intensity of flooding from extreme rainfall.

The vice-president of tourism association Confturismo, Marco Michielli, said the new law represented a "good compromise".

The EU plans to announce its own digital tax later this month to help finance its 750-billion-euro post-virus recovery plan.

Britain too is seeing a spike in new cases and has warned that infections could more than treble to 100,000 a day.

Another point of friction in the summit was a surprise push by Germany and France to revive dialogue with Russia by considering holding a summit with President Vladimir Putin.

In Britain, at least 5.3 million long-resident Europeans have applied for settlement status to ensure their pre-Brexit rights are preserved

The number of Covid cases in hospital has more than doubled in a month to 450 patients, including about 100 in intensive care.

The United States was among eight countries and territories added to an EU "white list", exempting them from Covid-19 travel bans.

The NATO summit is also likely to security issues in space, cyberspace, and the growing influence of China.

The most dramatic scenes happened six years ago, when many asylum-seekers streamed out of Syria

Over 100 million people in the 27-nation European Union, or 22.6 percent of its population, have been fully vaccinated against Covid-19

Northern Ireland is still deeply divided between pro-UK mainly Protestant unionists and pro-Ireland largely Catholic nationalists.

The decision to keep Spain on Britain's amber list was "disappointing", Health Minister Carolina Darias said.