Oxford/AstraZeneca Covid vaccine given full approval by EU regulator
European Medicines Agency approves jab for use in all age groups above 18, despite German doubts
The European Medicines Agency has authorised the Oxford/AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine for use in all adult age groups after days of doubt.
A month after it received approval in the UK, the EU’s regulator declared the vaccine safe for general use across the 27 member states.
The shot is the third Covid-19 vaccine given the green light by the EMA, after ones made by Pfizer and Moderna. Both were authorised for all adults.
Brexit: Amazon ‘to launch first Ireland fulfilment centre’ to mitigate UK border chaos
Baldonnell site would be retail giant’s first packing centre in Ireland
Amazon is reportedly looking to open its first packing warehouse in Ireland, allowing it to avoid delays brought by new Brexit trade arrangements.
The retail giant wants to use a 650,000-sq-ft unit at a business park in Baldonnell, west of Dublin, according to the Bloomberg news agency.
If the deal goes ahead, customers are expected to receive Amazon purchases faster, as many items are currently dispatched from the UK.
The Lukashenko regime's persecution of Belarus journalists
For months, hundreds of thousands of Belarusians have staged protests against strongman Alexander Lukashenko. The president has used the country's security agencies to intimidate dissidents and persecute journalists.
Yulia Slutskaya is a well-known Belarus journalist with a proven track record. She founded the independent Press Club Belarus, an organization that seeks to advance the country's independent media landscape and receives funding from the EU. But her media work came to a halt when security officers asked Slutskaya to use a different customs exit at Minsk airport on November 22, 2020, vanishing without a trace.
Her daughter, Alexandra Slutskaya, says that for 24 hours, no one knew her mother's whereabouts. "It turned out that she sat all night with criminal investigators who had 'friendly talks' with her," Alexandra says in an interview with DW. Without a lawyer present, the agents then took Yulia to her apartment, the alleged "crime scene."
WHO team in Wuhan begins field visits at hospital that treated early Covid-19 cases
A World Health Organization-led team of experts investigating the origins of COVID-19 on Friday visited a hospital in the Chinese city of Wuhan that was one of the first to treat patients in the early days of the outbreak.
After meeting with Chinese scientists earlier in the day, the team went to the Hubei Provincial Hospital of Integrated Chinese and Western Medicine.
Zhang Jixian, director of the hospital's department of respiratory and critical care, has been cited by state media as the first to report the novel coronavirus, after treating an elderly couple in late 2019 whose CT scans showed differences from typical pneumonia.
Dutch court orders Shell to pay Nigerian farmers over oil spills
The energy company’s Nigerian subsidiary must pay out over a 2008 case, Court of Appeal in The Hague rules.
A Dutch court has ordered the Nigerian subsidiary of Shell to pay compensation over oil spills in Nigeria’s Niger Delta, a ruling which could pave the way for more cases against multinational oil firms.
The Court of Appeal in The Hague on Friday ruled that the Nigerian arm of the British-Dutch company must issue payouts over a long-running civil case involving four Nigerian farmers who were seeking compensation, and a clean-up, from the company over pollution caused by leaking oil pipelines.
Inside the Reddit army that's crushing Wall Street
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