UK poised to confirm fifth delay to post-Brexit checks on imports

Latest hold-up is intended to cut risk of new charges being passed on to consumers amid cost of living crisis

Brics to more than double with admission of six new countries

Major expansion as economic bloc that includes Russia and China attempts to provide counterweight to the US and western allies

First ‘not for EU’ labels appear on supermarket food in Northern Ireland

Labels required on some items from October on back of updated post-Brexit deal seen in Asda

Brics group looks to expand at summit despite divisions among key members

Experts say India concerned about expansion and any overt anti-west turn as leaders fly into South Africa

Shore wars: Greeks battle to save beaches from invasion of commercial sunbeds

Protesters demand end to the illegal spread of loungers and say sands must be free for all

Politicians can always be voted out. And so could Brexit

The Tories, and even Labour, tell us that ‘the country made a decision in 2016’. Yes it did, and now it repents of that choice

The ‘dark fleet’ of tankers shipping Russian oil in the shadows

As sanctions loomed, sales of ageing crude carriers suddenly soared, bought by operators unknown to the market

George Soros foundation’s retreat from Europe could ‘turn off the lights’ for human rights

Activists fear the billionaire’s legacy will be lost as his Open Society Foundations curbs its activities across the EU

Putin to discuss capital controls to help prop up rouble, report says

Proposals said to include forcing large exporters to convert up to 80% of their foreign currency into roubles

Bank of Ireland glitch let customers withdraw money they didn’t have

‘Technical issue’ allowed transfers and withdrawals beyond customer limits and made online banking unavailable

UK basic wage growth hits record high; Russia’s central bank lifts rates to 12% – as it happened

UK regular pay growth highest since 2001 while unemployment rate rises unexpectedly; rouble recovers afters Bank of Russia raises rates at extraordinary meeting

Interest rate hike just a sticking plaster for Russia’s war-fuelled economic woes

Further tough decisions will be needed while the Kremlin continues to spend large sums on its Ukraine invasion

Russia’s central bank hikes interest rates by 3.5 percentage points as rouble falls

Emergency decision is intended to halt slide after currency dropped to weakest point in almost 17 months

Russia’s central bank to hold extraordinary meeting after rouble falls to 16-month low

Bank will discuss interest rate after high spending on war in Ukraine and drop in export revenues put further pressure on Russia’s economy

Italy’s Meloni defends windfall tax move against banks

PM says ‘the right things must be done’, having watered down measure in response to fall in lenders’ shares