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Surging inflation led interest payments on government debt to hit the highest amount for May on record. Interest payments paid by the government for last month hit £7.6bn, up £3.1bn from a year earlier. Government borrowing fell in May from a year earlier but still…

“There was water everywhere, but not a single drop to drink.” That is how Ronju Chowdhary described the scene outside her house on Saturday. She lives in Udiana, a remote village in the north-eastern Indian state of Assam, which has been hit by severe floods.…