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A strike by workers operating the Channel tunnel has blocked train travel between Britain and France, leaving thousands of pre-Christmas travellers as well as freight traffic stranded. IMAGES
Passengers at King's Cross train station in London face delays and cancellations as snow and ice across the United Kingdom cause widespread travel disruption. IMAGES
Nine years after a high-speed train crash that killed 80 and injured over 140, a major trial opens to determine responsibility in Spain's worst rail disaster in nearly eight decades. IMAGES
The European Central Bank unveils a new crisis-fighting tool to keep the borrowing costs of indebted eurozone governments like Italy under control as interest rates rise for the first time in a decade. Dubbed the "Transmission Protection Instrument (TPI)", the targeted bond-buying scheme "can be activated to counter unwarranted, disorderly market dynamics that pose a serious threat to the transmission of monetary policy across the euro area," says ECB President Christine Lagarde. SOUNDBITE by Christine Lagarde, President of the ECB
Members of the main Spanish trade and employment unions hold a demonstration protesting against the rising cost of living. Record inflation levels have fuelled growing anger with Spain's left-wing government as energy prices go through the roof. IMAGES
Some foreign visitors are returning to Bangkok's tourist destination Grand Palace as Thailand reopen to vaccinated tourists from "low-risk" countries. IMAGES
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