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The European Commission will recommend a bloc-wide policy change that would allow American tourists fully vaccinated against the coronavirus to visit the E.U. starting this summer.

“All 27 member states will accept, unconditionally, all those who are vaccinated with vaccines that are approved” by the European Medicines Agency, said Ursula von der Leyen, the commission president. That includes all three vaccines used in the U.S. She did not offer a timeline. Here’s what you need to know.

There are few details, but E.U. officials’ comments suggest that some form of a “vaccine passport” may be used. Around the world, a variety of digital and old-fashioned approaches are being used as proof of Covid-19 vaccinations.

Rebounding travel: U.S. airlines have said they expect strong demand for domestic flights this summer. The restoration of trans-Atlantic travel could provide the airline industry a much-needed boost as it works to generate profits again.

Here are the latest updates and maps of the pandemic.

In other developments:

The E.U. has sued AstraZeneca over what the bloc has described as delays in shipping hundreds of millions of doses of its coronavirus vaccine.

As India set a global record for new virus cases for the fifth day in a row, Saudi Arabia, Britain, France and Germany joined the U.S. in pledging to send medical supplies.

France’s byzantine lockdown requirements risk exasperating an already fed-up French public.

Turkey, which ranks fourth in the world in new daily cases per person, ordered a three-week lockdown to contain the surge.

Scotland and Wales reopened restaurants, cafes and nonessential shops yesterday.

With immigration leveling off and the birthrate declining, the U.S. population over the last decade grew at the slowest rate since the 1930s, the Census Bureau said. The total population was 331,449,281 in 2020, up just 7.4 percent over the previous decade.

With a total fertility rate of 1.84 children per woman, the U.S. is in the same range as Britain and Sweden and below France and Ireland. Italy, Germany and Japan all have a total fertility rate of less than 1.5.

Historically, birthrates have declined as societies become more educated and wealthier. Replacement-level fertility in developed countries is generally taken to require an average of 2.1 children per woman.

Effects: The Census Bureau data is used to reapportion seats in Congress, based on new state population counts. Six states gained congressional seats — Colorado, Florida, Montana, Oregon, North Carolina and Texas — while California, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois, Michigan and West Virginia lost seats.

Prosecutors in President Vladimir Putin’s government ordered an immediate halt to all public activity by Aleksei Navalny’s political groups, one of the most drastic and direct actions against the opposition in recent years.

The decision, which prohibits Navalny’s nongovernmental organizations from posting information on the internet calling for any public protests or organizing referendums, cripples the only remaining effective opposition to Putin’s increasingly authoritarian rule. Officials said the activities were illegal because they were “extremist” in nature.

Navalny survived an attempt on his life last year and is now serving a prison sentence on what he has called trumped-up charges.

Details: Navalny’s foundation started 10 years ago and has since targeted high-ranking Russian officials with exposés on corruption. Separately, he set up a network of political offices in dozens of Russian regions where he was campaigning against Putin.

The death of Prince Philip has given new urgency to a transition already underway in the House of Windsor.

The French government plans to close a legal loophole that allowed the man who killed a Jewish woman in an anti-Semitic frenzy in 2017 to escape trial because a court found that he was in a delirious state brought on by cannabis.

Italy’s already high school dropout rates have increased, as closed classrooms and online learning push students to leave.

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a British-Iranian dual citizen who was released from detention last month, was handed a one-year sentence and travel ban yesterday on new charges of “propaganda activities.”

A leaked tape captured Iran’s foreign minister describing how the country’s Revolutionary Guards Corps calls the shots, offering a glimpse into behind-the-scenes power struggles.

Merrick Garland, the U.S. attorney general, announced a sweeping Justice Department investigation into the Louisville, Ky., metro police and the county government after the killing of a Black medical worker, Breonna Taylor, by officers in March 2020.

Criminals and insurgents in Venezuela have seized on the nation’s economic collapse to establish mini-states of their own.

Far from fleeing in fear, many residents — hungry, hunted by local drug gangs and feeling abandoned by their government — have welcomed the terrorist groups for the kind of protection and basic services the state is failing to provide. Our reporters went to one of the regions under their control.

Starting yesterday, people with iPhones began to see pop-up messages on their screens asking whether they will permit companies to follow them from app to app. Facebook isn’t happy about it. Here’s what to know about the new tool.

My colleague Jack Nicas, a technology reporter for The Times, talked to the OnTech newsletter about a standoff over privacy between Apple and Facebook.

There is a new iPhone feature. What does it do, and why is Facebook so mad about it?

With the latest iPhone software update, companies and advertisers must ask explicit permission to track people from one app to another.

Many app companies, including Facebook, have predicted that large numbers of people will say no. And that means companies that rely on showing people online ads may have less data to fine-tune the ads based on our activity and interests.

Who’s right: Apple or Facebook?

Facebook is right that billions of people have been able to access social networks, email, news and entertainment because it’s paid for by ads. The company’s message is that this system needs data on us to advertise effectively and efficiently. And Apple is right that digital advertising largely operates without people’s true consent or knowledge.

Apple’s message seems simpler.

That’s true. Apple’s view is that it’s simply giving people a choice of whether to be tracked across apps. Facebook’s argument to the public is more complex — that they have to be tracked for the internet to work, and that people don’t know what’s good for them.

This dish is a one-pot wonder of chicken, black beans and cumin-scented rice.

See Sweden in bloom.

The sole album by the overlooked jazz pianist Hasaan Ibn Ali, recorded in 1965 but never released and long presumed destroyed, may renew his legacy after its release this week.

Here’s today’s Mini Crossword, and a clue: Up and about (five letters).

And here is today’s Spelling Bee.

You can find all our puzzles here.

That’s it for today’s briefing. See you tomorrow. — Natasha

P.S. The Times is retiring the term Op-Ed. Here’s why.

The latest episode of “The Daily” is about why Russia is exporting so many doses of coronavirus vaccines.

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