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FirstFT: EU border checks double waiting times

Also in today’s newsletter: Chinese humanoid robot company prepares for IPO and Colombia earthquake death toll rises above 100

Reset your cycle, from hi-tech superbikes to practical all-rounders

PM says he is ‘increasingly confident’ prison space can be freed up to keep more serious criminals in jail

China seeks to increase international use of its currency

Comments come as Fifa president faces pressure to resign over private fundraising fiasco

Probe concerns shareholder dispute over cancer specialist Oncoclínicas

Unitree raises $900mn ahead of Shanghai listing expected later this month

Nick Blair in talks to raise roughly $200mn for new venture called Pyra

A merger between the giant drugmakers would have marked a return to pharma megadeals

Getting Europe back on the radar

Queue-jumping; JGBs; trade; STRIPs; blogging; MarioCart

Oil trading hub raises its GDP outlook and says energy market disruption has been less severe than expected

Malice and aspirations at the billion-dollar rumour mill

Evidence is mounting that the divide is rather more difficult to fix than the new Federal Reserve chair had thought

Victoria Craig speaks to Oliver Barnes and Malaika Kanaaneh Tapper

Peak waiting times hit two hours in Frankfurt and Amsterdam

Wall Street groups are working with the chipmaker to assemble a $500bn funding package for AI infrastructure

Emergency move to suspend Sunday ban comes as economists warn of hit to country’s GDP growth

The legendary manager is not camera-shy in ‘Mourinho’, with cameos from Alex Ferguson, Frank Lampard and more

Plans for a wider levy could benefit the bloc’s long-haul carriers but do little for low-cost operators

Parliamentary group asks lenders to clarify rules for serving crypto companies

Failure to translate growth into better living standards has driven migration attempts into Ceuta

Ulf Kristersson says mass regularisation threatens integrity of Schengen free-travel zone

Tourists rush to Iceland and Spain to glimpse the first solar alignment of its kind visible from the continent this century