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The European Union has demanded urgent talks with the United States over a possible extension of a U.S. ban on airline passengers taking laptops into cabins, to some European countries. The ban already applicable to flights originating from 10 specific airports in the Middle East, north Africa and Turkey because of fears that a concealed bomb could be installed in electronic devices taken onto an aircraft.

The European Court of Justice has been advised to rule that the U.S. ride-hailing firm Uber is a transport service and not an app. If the court does rule that Uber is a transport service, this is likely to have an impact on the company's operations in Estonia, Poland, Czech Republic, and Finland where it still runs UberPOP, using amateur drivers to pick up riders.

Britain is in full-on election campaigning mode. Next week we're expecting to see the final versions of some of the party manifestos - but will they contain the policies that the voters really care about? It's been christened "the Brexit Election" - but there are many factors which will determine how people vote. The 麻豆约拍's Andrew Hosken went to canvas the voters' opinions in Britain's richest constituency - Chelsea and Fulham, in London.

All this and more discussed with our two guests on opposite sides of the Pacific: Diana Furchgott-Roth, former Chief Economist of the U.S. Department of Labor, and a senior fellow and director of Economics21, in Washington DC. And the freelance writer Madhavan Narayanan in Delhi.

Photo: Kuwaiti social media activist Thamer al-Dakheel Bourashed puts his laptop inside his suitcase at Kuwait International Airportbefore boarding a flight to the United States. Credit: Getty Images.