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Cars line up at a drive-through Covid-19 testing site in Miami, Florida as cases of the coronavirus continue to surge ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday. IMAGES
People wait in line at a food distribution center in the borough of Queens as the global death toll from the coronavirus pandemic nears 1 million. New York state, the onetime epicenter of the US novel coronavirus epidemic, has seen case numbers rise to more than 1,000 a day, according to local officials on Saturday. IMAGES
Some Parisians woke up to the sound of tractor horns this morning. Several tractors are seen running up the streets of Paris near the Porte de Versailles venue of the International Agricultural Show. The 2024 edition of the fair which opens on Saturday, comes under pressure from farmers feeling still unsatisfied by the government's proposed measures. IMAGES
European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde says Eurozone inflation is slowing but is still expected to be "too high for too long", as the ECB raises interest rates for the ninth consecutive time. SOUNDBITE
After a meeting with UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in Belfast on talks over the controversial Northern Ireland Protocol, Naomi Long, the leader of Northern Ireland's centrist Alliance Party, says that "things are gradually moving in the direction of a potential deal" but cautions that "we are not over the line yet." The protocol on post-Brexit trading rules, signed between London and Brussels keeps Northern Ireland in the European single market and customs union and stipulates checks on goods moving from the rest of the UK to Northern Ireland. It has proved deeply unpopular with the UK-run province's unionist politicians, causing months of political deadlock. SOUNDBITE
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