AstraZeneca vaccine should not be given to people over 65, German health officials say
Updated 1532 GMT (2332 HKT) January 28, 2021
Germany's vaccine commission has recommended that the coronavirus vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford should not be given to people older than 65 years, the German Interior Ministry said Thursday.
GameStop shares rise despite Robinhood app restrictions
App limits buying in video game chain’s stock after surge due to small investors’ support
Shares in GameStop, the company at the centre of small investors’ gathering assault on Wall Street, rose again on Thursday, despite amateur trading platform Robinhood barring users from investing in the company.
Pre-market trading in GameStop, a US video game store chain, had suggested a reversal of fortunes after the stock more than doubled in value on Wednesday.
But shares in GameStop climbed again, meaning the stock market value of the company has now surged beyond $30bn (£22bn), nearly 100 times what it was worth in August last year.
French police ‘danced to Macarena’ at leaving party during Covid curfew
Secret party took place ‘without any respect to social distancing’
Police officials are facing sanctions over a party held at a police station in France, where they were filmed dancing the Macarena and flouting coronavirus rules.
An inquiry has been launched over a leaving party which took place in a suburb of Paris “without any respect to social distancing measures”, according to authorities.
The event at the police station in Aubervilliers, a suburb in the northeast, was organised while there is a curfew in place, Paris police said.
2020 'worst year in tourism history' with losses estimated at $1.3 trillion
The coronavirus crisis cost the global tourism sector $1.3 trillion (€1 trillion) in lost revenue in 2020 as the number of people travelling plunged, the UN said Thursday, calling it "the worst year in tourism history".
Revenue lost last year amounted to "more than 11 times the loss recorded during the 2009 global economic crisis," the Madrid-based World Tourism Organization said in a statement, warning that between 100 and 120 million direct tourism jobs were at risk.
International tourist arrivals fell by one billion, or 74 percent, in 2020 with Asia, the first region to feel the impact of Covid-19, seeing the steepest decline, it added.
China warns Taiwan independence ‘means war’
China toughened its language towards Taiwan on Thursday, warning after recent stepped-up military activities near the island that “independence means war” and that their armed forces were taking action to respond to provocation and foreign interference.
Taiwan, claimed by China as its territory, reported multiple Chinese fighter jets and bombers entering the island’s southwestern air defence identification zone over the weekend, prompting concern in Washington.
Navalny slams 'illegal' Russian case against him
Russian anti-Putin campaigner Alexei Navalny has denounced his detention as "blatantly illegal" in an appeal hearing via video link.
A judge heard, and then rejected, his appeal against detention for 30 days.
He was arrested on 17 January for not complying with a suspended sentence. He had only just arrived from Berlin, where he spent months recovering from a near-fatal Russian nerve agent attack.
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