Daily News Summary (29-01-2021)

• Botticelli portrait has sold for over $92 million

• Telegram can now import WhatsApp chat history 

• Russian court keeps Kremlin critic Navalny in jail

• China warns Taiwan that independence 'means war'

• Dubai police catch murderer with brain fingerprint tech

• India donates first 500,000 doses of vaccine to Sri Lanka

• Protests erupt as Poland adopts near-total ban on abortion

• Thousands of Brazilians take to streets protesting Bolsonaro

• WHO team in Wuhan departs quarantine for COVID origins study

• German authorities block use of AstraZeneca vaccine for over-65s

• Russia to fine social media giants for keeping up pro-Navalny videos

• Game of Thrones animated series in early development for HBO Max

• Tens of thousands of voters drop Republican affiliation after Capital riot

• Toyota group tops global auto sales in 2020 for the first time in five years

• Protesting Indian farmers locked in a stand-off with police near the capital

• Coventry (UK) to get the world’s first airport for flying cars and delivery drones


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