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A growing number of Turks are weary of their country acting as a 'holding camp' to prevent refugees from entering Europe.

This comes as a Malaysian businessman defends his part of the huge contract as being 'above board'.

But this is still short of a 70% target set for the summer.

The EU this week overtook the US as the continent with the most first doses in the world.

The expected rise in cases is linked to the highly-transmissible Delta variant along with the relaxing of measures in European countries.

A ban on religious symbols such as headscarves 'may be justified by the employer's need to present a neutral image towards customers or to prevent social disputes', the European Court of Justice says.

Lawmakers say officials should skip the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics unless China improves on human rights in Hong Kong and for the Uighur Muslim minority.

EU ambassador to Malaysia says recent reports on the origin of AstraZeneca vaccines are inaccurate.

He says he will discuss the matter with the EU ambassador to Malaysia to clarify the immigration policy with regards to vaccination.

Imposing “imaginary European values,” like LGBT promotion he argued, would be the “fastest road to collapse” for the bloc.

The minister in charge of vaccine procurement says there should be no discrimination over where vaccines are made as the same formula is used at all manufacturing plants.

The European Medicines Agency says the four vaccines approved in the European Union – Pfizer, Moderna, AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson – seem to be protecting against all strains circulating in the continent.