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The US economy has confounded the expectations of many analysts, with its jobs market improving last month despite the pandemic.

With 2.5 million jobs added in May, the unemployment rate fell from 14.7% in April to 13.3%.

There had been fears that unemployment could rise as high as 20%, but measures to ease lockdown restrictions in many states in recent weeks appear to have helped.

However, the new figures are still far higher than before the pandemic: earlier this year unemployment had fallen to a 50-year low of 3.5%.

President Donald Trump was quick to take credit for the development, saying in a tweet: "Great going President Trump (kidding but true)!"

The US has recorded more Covid-19 deaths and confirmed infections than any other country.

It's normally bustling with tourists - but with travel bans in place in most of the world, Cambodia's Angkor Wat temple has fallen silent.

BBC Travel has spoken to tour guides, conservationists and other workers in the area about what it means for them.

Spain is to begin opening up to foreign tourists from 1 July.

The clarification comes after the country's tourism minister initially said, on Thursday, that restrictions on land borders would be lifted from 22 June.

The EU Commissioner for Home Affairs has called on states in the bloc to reopen their internal borders by the end of this month.

Spain has recorded almost 28,000 deaths and more than 233,000 cases since the coronavirus outbreak there began.

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The UK government is "disappointed" that British Airways chose not to join a meeting between the home secretary and the travel industry on Thursday to discuss the UK's coronavirus quarantine plans, Downing Street has said.

The prime minister's spokesman added that Downing Street was not going to comment on "threats" of legal action over the quarantine measures.

As we mentioned earlier, IAG - the parent company of BA - says it is thinking about launching a legal challenge against the UK government over a new rule that will require incoming travellers to quarantine for 14 days.

• What are the UK travel quarantine rules?

Meanwhile, the PM's spokesman insisted the coronavirus test and trace service is "up and running" and that "thousands" of people have been contacted, with the "majority" of people getting their results back in a day.

However No 10 said that - while there will be updates in terms of more precise figures - it was not yet in a position to publish the full data as it still needs to be "verified".

Turning to the NHS app, Downing Street said it had been "successfully piloted" on the Isle of Wight and will be rolled out nationally "in the coming weeks".

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Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has cancelled plans to reintroduce a lockdown in various cities, citing a need to avoid “social and economic consequences”.

The interior ministry had announced plans for a weekend curfew in 15 cities - including Istanbul and Ankara – overnight.

However, Erdogan later tweeted that he had decided to cancel the plans, following a backlash from citizens.

Turkey reopened restaurants, cafes and beaches earlier this week, as well as allowing domestic travel to recommence.

Erdogan said he had believed a second lockdown was needed, after the number of new daily cases jumped to almost 1,000 on Thursday, up from about 700 in previous days.

"As a result of this negative development, we had to once again bring the stay-at-home order on our agenda," he tweeted. "However, the reactions we received from our people pushed us to re-evaluate the decision."

Rory Cellan-Jones
Technology correspondent

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News that the full UK test and trace programme might not be up and running until September has led some to think this applies to the NHS contact-tracing app, rather than the wider manual tracing effort.

The confusion is understandable - after all it’s not long ago that ministers talked as if the app was the centrepiece of the programme rather than the “cherry on top” as Baroness Harding described it this week.

My understanding is the app, which has indeed suffered a number of delays, should still be rolled out nationwide by late June or early July - although there is no guarantee that the timetable won’t slip further.

After a first trial of an app with very limited capabilities on the Isle of Wight, version two - which features five questions about symptoms instead of two and integrates the testing process - is undergoing testing at a secret location in London.

I understand this version will then be launched as an update for Isle of Wight residents next week. But when that local trial becomes a national rollout is not clear.

Someone close to the project says that at the beginning the team was told to act like a tech startup, trying things out and then changing them day by day. Now though, "Downing Street’s attitude to risk has been dialled right down - they don’t want it to be released until it’s perfect".

Bluetooth contact tracing apps are a new idea and many countries around the world are trying them out. So far, however, there is no clear evidence that they are effective.

Singapore, which pioneered the idea, struggled to get enough people to download its app, which appeared not to work very well. Now the government there says it will roll out a wearable contact tracing-device to all its citizens.

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Indonesia's capital, Jakarta, opened its mosques and other places of worship for the first time in three months on Friday.

On Thursday the city's governor said offices, restaurants, shopping malls and tourist attractions would also be allowed to start operating again in the coming weeks as part of measures to ease the local lockdown.

Those attending mosques were asked to bring their own prayer mats and abide by social distancing rules, with temperature checks at the door.

Indonesia has confirmed more than 29,000 cases of coronavirus and 1,770 deaths. Jakarta has been the epicentre of the outbreak, with 7,766 cases and 523 deaths.

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Brazil's death toll has now surpassed Italy's to be the third highest in the world at 34,021 - behind the US and the UK.

It is one of the countries where deaths are rising fastest.

In Europe, most countries have passed through the peak although the UK's daily death toll remains higher than other European countries.

See more charts showing the spread of coronavirus here.

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We reported earlier on that appeal by the husband of railworker Belly Mujinga, who died with coronavirus. Her family say she was spat on at Victoria Station.

Now the Crown Prosecution Service has been asked to review evidence into her death in "recognition of wider public interest", although the case is not being reopened, the police said.

The man alleged to have spat at Mujinga, 47, who died with Covid-19 on 5 April, claimed to have coronavirus.

But, following "extensive inquiries", British Transport Police (BTP) concluded last month the attack did not lead to her death.

The force also said no further action would be taken against a 57-year-old man interviewed by officers.

The BBC understands that the man, who was the main suspect, had a negative antibody test in the time after the incident.

In a new statement on Friday, BTP said it had invited the CPS to conduct an independent review of the available evidence, and whether there were any further lines of inquiry.

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The British Medical Association, which represents UK doctors, is urging the government to make face coverings compulsory in all places where it's not possible to socially distance - not just on public transport.

The government announced on Thursday that everyone travelling on public transport in England will need to wear a covering from 15 June.

The BMA also says the coronavirus risk would be "much less" if the rule were to come into effect now, rather than later in the month.

Read more about this here.

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BBC News, London

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The husband of a railway worker has spoken out on the two-month anniversary of her death from coronavirus after she was spat on by a man claiming to have the virus.

Belly Mujinga, 47, who died with Covid-19 on 5 April, was working at Victoria station when she was assaulted. Police concluded the incident was not linked to her death.

In a statement Lusamba Mujinga said his wife's employers, Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR), didn’t do enough to protect her.

Mr Mujinga said: "We want justice for Belly.

"We want to know why she was sent out to work unprotected on the station concourse that day. We want to know why she was working when she had a respiratory condition.

"We want justice for Belly’s colleagues who still don’t have full [personal protective equipment].

"Today, it’s two months since Belly died in hospital from coronavirus. Two months since I lost my wife and our daughter lost her mother.

"We ask you to take a moment today to think about Belly, and about all the transport workers who have died from this terrible virus and all those putting their lives on the line to keep our country moving."

More than a million people have signed a petition launched in support of Mrs Mujinga, calling for all frontline workers within Transport for London to be provided with personal protective equipment.

The petition also calls for GTR to provide an explanation as to why she was still working in direct contact with general public when she had a respiratory underlying health condition.

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Face coverings and social distancing can both be a challenge if you're deaf.

Covering the mouth means lip reading becomes ineffective, while social distancing can mean, for those with some hearing, that they can be a little too far away from people to hear what they’re saying.

Lots of deaf people plan their travel routes in advance to avoid having to ask for help, but sometimes that is unavoidable if there are changes to services or delays – meaning other solutions need to be found.

Some designers have made face coverings with a clear window around the mouth to enable lip reading, and nine British charities have written to Public Health England and NHS England asking that these be commissioned for wider use.

It might be something we see more of in the future, but for now, production is low and to have any real benefit they would need to be widely available so the majority of the population could use them.

• Read our feature on the campaign for clear masks here
• Widen rules on where face coverings must be used, say UK doctors

With so many disturbing headlines around, it helps to remember there are many stories of survival too - even among those gravely ill with Covid-19.

Richard Hanson, 66, spent 35 days in a coma after catching the coronavirus while on holiday in Tenerife. Doctors also treated him for pneumonia and kidney failure. But now, against all odds, he's finally able to leave hospital in the UK.

Richard is far from the only case to survive such an ordeal though.

Other survivors who've come out of comas have shared messages of hope, while almost 2.9 million people worldwide have recovered from the virus, according to the tally kept by US-based Johns Hopkins University.

A man in Egypt who allegedly had female genital mutilation (FGM) carried out on his three daughters after tricking them, has been charged along with the doctor who performed the procedure.

The doctor went to the girls' house after their father told them they would receive a coronavirus "vaccination", Egypt's prosecutor-general said.

The girls, aged under 18, were drugged and the doctor then cut their genitals.

FGM was made illegal in 2008 in Egypt, but remains widespread.

To read the full story click here.

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BBC Security Correspondent

The United Arab Emirates embassy in London says it has just donated six tonnes of medical material to the UK, enough to manufacture millions of face masks.

The embassy says the equipment arrived at Heathrow on Friday on a special flight from the Gulf and includes material made in the UAE’s own factories.

With the wearing of face masks on public transport soon to become compulsory in England, the donation is timely.

A statement by the UAE embassy in London said the consignment, which arrived on a specially chartered flight, included meltblown fabric for surgical face masks.

The UAE has a close defence and security relationship with Britain but it has faced criticism from human rights groups.

Simon Atkinson
BBC News, Sydney

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An Australian court has refused permission for a Black Lives Matter protest scheduled to happen in Sydney on Saturday, ruling that it would risk spreading coronavirus.

New South Wales Police went to court seeking an injunction on the demonstration because it would have been a large assembly. Thousands were expected to attend.

Justice Desmond Ferguson said allowing the protest would defy the rulings of government ministers and the public health officers who advised them.

However, he said there was "no doubt" the cause of the planned rally was "widely supported", and that the court took freedom of speech very seriously.

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It's been an eventful day in the business world so far, with many companies continuing to be hit hard by the coronavirus.

To help you catch up, here are the latest headlines.

• IAG - the parent company of British Airways - says it's thinking about launching a legal challenge against the UK government over a new rule that will require incoming travellers to quarantine for 14 days. Willie Walsh, chief executive of IAG, told Sky News earlier that the "irrational" rule would "torpedo" the airline's chances of flying in July, and said there had been no consultation with the industry before the legislation was announced
• Carmaker Bentley says it's going to cut up to 1,000 jobs under a "voluntary release system", and that it can't rule out future compulsory redundancies
• Clothes retailer Gap has reported a loss close to $1bn (£792m) because of store closures due to the coronavirus. The company was $932m in the red for the three months to May - while during the same period last year it made a profit of $227m.
• The boss of drug company AstraZeneca, Pascal Soriot, has told the BBC they're starting to produce a potential vaccine for the coronavirus. Trials of the drug are under way, but Soriot says they need to start making it "right now" so that they "have it ready to be used by the time we have the results"

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Drug company AstraZeneca is starting production of a potential vaccine for coronavirus even before trials have proven to be successful.

Trials of the drug, developed with scientists at Oxford University, are under way - but boss Pascal Soriot told the BBC AstraZeneca must start making doses now so that it can meet demand if the vaccine proves effective.

AstraZeneca says it will be able supply two billion doses of the vaccine.

Speaking to the BBC's Today programme, Mr Soriot said manufacturing was beginning already because "we want to be as fast as possible".

"Of course, with this decision comes a risk but it's a financial risk and that financial risk is the vaccine doesn't work," he added.

"Then all the materials, all the vaccines, we've manufactured will be wasted."

Read more

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Face coverings will be handed out for free at a selection of Tube and bus stations from Monday, following the announcement they will become compulsory on public transport in England.

The masks will be distributed at stations which have seen higher numbers of people travelling during the lockdown "to help customers adjust to the forthcoming new requirement", Transport for London (TfL) said.

Transport bosses estimate between 30 and 50% of commuters are wearing coverings when travelling at the moment.

Mike Brown, London’s transport commissioner, said: "I encourage customers not to wait, and to start wearing them now if they are not already.

"Face coverings can now be quite easily made or purchased, and we are helping by temporarily handing out free masks at hot-spot Tube and bus stations."