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UK travelers face another day of nationwide train strikes, with union leaders seeking to coordinate wider work stoppages across the public sector amid a row over pay.

In April, First Abu Dhabi Bank PJSC pulled a $1 billion deal to acquire Egypt’s biggest investment bank. Just months later, it set its sights much higher.

In a bid to force commercial lenders to participate in the domestic money markets, Sri Lanka’s central bank capped their ability to tap an emergency liquidity window to a maximum five times per month.

An underlying gauge of euro-zone inflation flared to a record last month, indicating persistent price pressures that will likely extend the European Central Bank’s most-aggressive bout of interest-rate hikes in its history.

China will monitor travelers entering the country at some border crossings for signs of infection from a new Covid-19 variant, and will allow local governments to reimpose movement curbs on residents to prevent outbreaks after the country reopens its borders Sunday.

Wells Fargo & Co. said it fired an employee after an incident in November aboard an Air India flight from New York to Delhi.

Portugal is the latest European country to require passengers on flights from China to present a negative Covid test before boarding the airplane.

South Africa has found its first case of a coronavirus infection caused by the new, highly transmissible XBB.1.5 variant.

Eisai Co. and its partner Biogen Inc. gained initial US regulatory clearance for lecanemab, the first treatment clearly shown to slow the advance of brain-wasting Alzheimer’s disease.