• According to median predictions from 17 analysts, inflation will be 0.33% in April, compared to a 0.16% price increase during the same month last year and the 0.51% registered in March 2021.
• That variation would take 12-month consumer price growth to 1.69%, above the 1.51% registered in March of this year.

• People entering Italy from other European countries face five days of quarantine and mandatory testing both before arrival and at the end of their isolation period.

• Consumer prices, harmonised to make them comparable with inflation data from other European Union countries, rose by 2.1% in April, up from 2.0% in March. A Reuters forecast had pointed to an April reading of 2.0%.
• On the month, inflation rose 0.5%, the data showed.

• Masks are widely worn in Thailand but the order to make them mandatory comes just a few days after Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha was fined $190 for failing to wear one during a meeting.

* Parks, gyms, cinemas, bars, restaurants, day-care centres and schools have been closed in Bangkok, the outbreak epicentre, and non-essential travel from the capital is being discouraged.

• Still, the economy remains at least a couple of years away from fully recovering from the pandemic recession, which started in February 2020.
• Former President Donald Trump's government provided nearly $3 trillion in relief money early in the pandemic, leading to record GDP growth in the third quarter of last year.

• "We are watching with total disbelief...What is happening in India cannot be ignored by our continent," he told reporters.
• The AU will convene a meeting with all African ministers of health on May 8, Nkengasong said, to "put everybody on alert".

• Germany must update its climate law by the end of next year to set out how it will bring carbon emissions down nearly to zero by 2050, its top court ruled on Thursday.

• On Thursday, the Foreign Office of Pakistan announced that it will be formally recalling the country's Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Raja Ali Ejaz and six others with an inquiry to be conducted in the foreseeable future.
• Prime Minister Imran Khan announced on Thursday that a high-powered investigation has been launched against against Pakistan's Ambassador to Saudi Arabia for "not taking care of the labourers".

• He added it takes about four to six weeks to evaluate the data.

• Still, the rate is higher than the 14.41% recorded in the first quarter of 2020, when the coronavirus pandemic started to take its toll.

• The outbreak, the 10th to be reported this year, was detected on a farm of 432 pigs, of which 342 died.

• The company said in a statement that it would make new funding commitments to increase supply at its manufacturing facilities.

• Unemployed workers totalled 463,940 in the European Union state in March.

• Those killed are believed to be patients at the clinic, local newspaper Potsdamer Neueste Nachrichten reported.

• Initially Arbery's death appeared to have been covered up by local investigators, and the three men were not arrested or charged.

• I made very clear to Putin that we don't seek escalation but their actions have consequences.

• "We need to work together to find a consensus. Let's get it done next month, by the first anniversary of George Floyd's death," Biden told US lawmakers during a joint session of Congress.

• Biden said Monday that the United States would also ship overseas up to 60 million AstraZeneca vaccine doses that have already been manufactured, but it remained unclear how many would go to India.

• The twin spending bills face lengthy paths to approval in Congress, where Biden's Democrats control both the House of Representatives and Senate but only by the barest of margins.

• The accusations gave a rare glimpse into strained relationships within Britain's most famous family and the four younger royals, who were once dubbed the "Fab Four".

• President Abdelmadjid Tebboune this month warned Hirak activists against "non-innocent activities" that "attempt to hinder the democratic process".

• Biden used a strikingly personal tone, at times whispering as he did, when he urged corporate America and the nation's wealthiest to "pay their fair share" of taxes.

• The country, which is experiencing a relentless new wave of infections.

• In every aspect of the primetime television speech, Biden will echo his mantra that "America is back" -- both in recovering from the coronavirus disaster and in putting the turbulence of the Trump era behind.

• If people aren't sure that the vaccine they are receiving is the same that was studied in trials, then "I can imagine that some people might have their reservations about getting that vaccine at all," said Rasmussen.

• In total, 103 inmates were killed in Ecuadorian prisons last year, according to the office of the human rights ombudsman.