• North Korea made attempts to steal COVID-19 vaccine technology from Pfizer
• India detects South African, Brazilian COVID variants
• China arrests leader of multi-million dollar fake vaccine scam
• Japan to provide $4.8 million grant to Armenia and Azerbaijan over Karabakh conflict
• Belarusian police raids homes of journalists and human rights activists
• China overtakes US as Europe’s main trading partner for the first time
• Hungary becomes first EU country to receive Chinese COVID vaccine Sinopharm
• Four fined £10,000 in UK over failing to declare they had traveled from a "red-list" country
• Amazon to make TV streaming device in India (USNEWS)
• Baltic Sea froze for the first time in 25 years years
• Microsoft is testing gaming service xCloud in browsers for iOS
• Bitcoin price hits $50,000 for first time
