Chinese travellers thronged transport networks Friday as an eight-day national holiday kicked off, the first October break since the end of the strict zero-Covid policies that separated families and hammered the tourism industry.
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German MPs approve controversial 2024 budget
Germany's parliament on Friday approved a revised 2024 budget that will reinstate strict debt limits after a shock legal ruling forced Chancellor Olaf Scholz to redraw his spending plans. The ruling tore a 17-billion-euro hole in the government's 2024 finance plans.
Hit them in the pocket: how cities are going after SUVs
Two decades after London began moves to clamp down on sports utility vehicles, Parisians on Sunday will vote on whether to squeeze the gas-guzzlers out of town by tripling their parking fees. Parking charges in London and in other councils, including Bath and North East Somerset, have also introduced emissions-based parking fees. eab/cb/sjw/gil
Public transport walkout hits strike-battered Germany
Public transport workers across Germany walked off the job on Friday in the latest industrial action to buffet Europe's top economy. The strike came one day after security staff at 11 German airports walked off the job, leading to the cancellation of 1,100 flights amid a spate of industrial action and protests to hit commuters in the last weeks.
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