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EU gas prices have soared this year as Russia slashed gas deliveries to Europe following its invasion of Ukraine, although even a record-breaking price spike in August would not have triggered the EU's proposed cap.
By some local accounts, he arrived to the region by private car after documenting his controversial journey from the UK on social media, sharing a video taken from a plane and a selfie where his face was covered with a white mask.
Zhong Nanshan, a prominent Chinese epidemiologist, said that 99% of people now infected with the virus would recover in 7 to 10 days, in comments reported by the People's Daily, controlled by the ruling Communist Party.
BRUSSELS, Nov 30 (Reuters) - The European Union's energy chief on Wednesday defended the bloc's proposal to cap gas prices and Thessaloniki transport said countries will negotiate possible changes to the proposal, after a backlash from EU member states.
Yet China has been anything but placid during the past few weeks, with protests against COVID curbs in many cities that marked the biggest show of public discontent since President Xi Jinping came to power a decade ago.
Although the government on Wednesday loosened key parts of its strict "zero-COVID" policy that has kept the pandemic largely at bay for the past three years, many people appear wary of being too quick to shake off the shackles.
The EU proposal came under fire from countries in favour of a gas price cap to reduce citizens' high energy bills - with Poland's energy minister calling the proposal "a joke" and analysts suggesting it was designed with such strict criteria that it would never be used.
Amid the caution, state-broadcaster CCTV announced further easing, with tourism and entertainment venues - including theatres, libraries, internet cafes and table game centres no longer requiring COVID tests and health codes.
After months of infighting among EU countries who disagree on whether to cap energy costs, the European Commission last week proposed a price cap that would kick in if the front-month Title Transfer Facility gas price exceeded 275 euros per megawatt-hour for two weeks and was 58 euros higher than a liquefied natural gas reference price for taxi athens greece 10 days.
On the Beijing subway, many seats were empty on Friday night during what should have been rush hour, even though the city this week scrapped the need to show negative tests to ride trains or enter offices.
But gas price caps have split the 27-country bloc.
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President Xi Jinping´s government faces mounting anger at its 'zero-COVID' policy that has shut down access to areas throughout China in an attempt to isolate every case at a time when other governments are easing controls and trying to live with the virus.
Little more than a month after the National Health Commission stressed commitment to its strict virus containment policy, saying it was "putting people and lives first", authorities have changed tack and taxi price athens to airport are now telling people they have less to fear.
Other videos showed demonstrators in a plaza singing China's national anthem, seen as an attempt to protect themselves from accusations of being against the government. One of the lines is: 'Rise up, those who refuse to be slaves.'
BEIJING, Dec 9 (Reuters) - Judging by Friday's quiet streets in China's capital Beijing and the reluctance of some businesses to drop COVID curbs, enduring anxieties about the coronavirus are likely to hamper a speedy return to health for the world's second-largest economy.
It is there that he is believed to have proposed to have proposed to his now-fiancée Carrie Symonds (pictured together) Mr Johnson has opted for luxury overseas holidays in the past, including spending Christmas in the Caribbean island of Mustique.
Pictured: Mr Johnson on holiday on the Greek island of Trikeri in 2016 - when he was Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak are both set to shun foreign holidays this summer and instead favour 'staycations' in the UK, sources suggest.
He has a variety of options, including the PM's grace-and-favour homes Chevening and Chequers - where Miss Symonds isolated while pregnant during the pandemic - and taxi from athens port to acropolis his privately-owned farmhouse in Oxfordshire.
Chancellor Rishi Sunak is also expected to take his holiday in the UK. Although Mr Johnson insisted he 'totally understood' if people felt the need to go abroad, the intervention will heap pressure on MPs and ministers to follow suit.
The government said taxi from Thessaloniki to delphi, railway, bus and other public services that had been suspended for weeks would resume. State-owned China Southern Airlines announced it would resume flights from Urumqi to four Chinese cities starting Monday.
