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...Dover and ferry operator DFDS said the post-Brexit requirement to individually scan and stamp all passports for passengers entering the EU was creating capacity constraints at the port....
...An official summary of the talks from Berlin said there had been “much debate” among the representatives about the extent to which carbon capture and storage should be deployed in the energy sector....
...However, Ukrainian and western officials say sanctions banning western chip exports to Russia are limiting Moscow’s capacity to produce more sophisticated kit....
...alan.beattie@ft.com...
...“There’s so much shipping capacity coming on stream that in the long run the increase in rates evens out,” says Ryan Petersen, chief executive of the freight forwarding and logistics company Flexport....
...As for the shipping industry, freight carriers have excess capacity given that the post-Covid demand surge has dissipated and new ships are being launched....
...But one Conservative official said that when Labour was last in power between 1997 and 2010 it made slow progress on renewables....
...It is commendable that the British government is starting a global conversation on AI safety and is itself building expert state capacity to grapple with frontier models....
...The Houthis have denied deliberately targeting undersea cables, while Yemeni officials have said they are in daily contact with international submarine companies in the Red Sea and will provide support to...
...The asylum claims will be processed by Italian officials while applicants are confined to the centres in Albania, and those whose claims are rejected will be held until they are repatriated to their home...
...Additional reporting by Mai Khaled in Gaza and Alan Smith in London...
...There is not enough trust between New Delhi and Beijing to put one of the others’ officials in charge....
...more focused on cheating emission tests in the Dieselgate scandal, with the help of weak regulators, and lobbying for delaying official targets for ending the sales of internal combustion cars....
...One aimed to beef up the capacities of Europol in order to improve data sharing and operations, EU officials said. Another new law is expected to harmonise and update penalties for people smuggling....
...Putin’s Ukraine campaign has also led to labour shortages as Russia’s army and its weapons factories suck in workers, creating a supply-side bottleneck that is seeing domestic demand outpace Russia’s capacity...
...When it comes to investment and trade, the rich world’s comparative advantages are openness and consistency. They should pursue them. alan.beattie@ft.com...
...Need to know: UK and Europe economy The UK statistics watchdog said there was “a way to go” before official jobs numbers could be relied on again....
...allies and officials within his administration to press for a pause in the military operation in Gaza....
...Today I’m standing in for Alan. Brussels and Washington are increasingly coming under pressure to reach an agreement on a climate-related deal for steel and aluminium....
...Kolachalam in Mumbai, Nic Fildes in Sydney, Song Jung-a in Seoul, Christine Murray in Mexico City Data visualisation by Alan Smith and Eri Sugiura...
...Official statistics show UK life expectancy has fallen to 2010 levels....
...Coach travellers must now disembark and be individually processed, meaning it takes longer to process a coachload of passengers than the equivalent number of car passengers who remain in their vehicles....
...“You just don’t have the same capacity.”...
...That compares with about 4:1 in the UK and 8:1 in US federal prisons....
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