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British Prime minister Boris Johnson announces all pandemic legal curbs in England will end later this week, urging a shift from government intervention to personal responsibility. Johnson, who has been mired in scandals that have threatened his hold on power, says the legal need for people to self-isolate when infected with Covid-19 would stop from Thursday 24 February 2022. SOUNDBITE
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak tells the House of Commons he has "absolute conviction" in his government's plan to send migrants to Rwanda ahead of a vote in parliament on the bill which has exposed schisms in his ruling Conservative party. The Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill, if passed, will compel judges to treat Rwanda as a safe third country and proposes giving UK ministers powers to disregard sections of international and British human rights legislation. SOUNDBITE
French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said building six new nuclear reactors is the "biggest industrial challenge of our time for France". Le Maire spoke outside nuclear power plant of Gravelines in northern France. French President Emmanuel Macron has vowed to have six EPRs or third generation pressurised water nuclear reactors, by 2035. SOUNDBITE
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announces £29.5 billion ($37.2 billion) of private funding for new UK projects as more than 200 CEOs descend on London for the 2023 Global Investment Summit. The investments are "a huge vote of confidence in our country's future," Sunak says in a statement before the opening of the event at Hampton Court Palace, just outside London. SOUNDBITE
UK leader Rishi Sunak announces after his trip to the Middle East that Britain is sending an additional £20 million ($24 million) of aid to help civilians in Gaza affected by the war between Israel and Hamas. SOUNDBITE
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