The Latest: Atlanta Shooting, Japan LGBTQ Breakthrough, Sad St. Patrick s Day A deserted vaccination centre in Erfurt, Germany, after authorities suspended the use of the AstraZeneca jab over blood clot fears. - Martin Schutt/dpa/ZUMA 2020-03-17
Welcome to Wednesday, where a shooting in Atlanta leaves eight dead, a Japanese court ruling could be a breakthrough for LGBTQ rights and Saint Patrick s Day celebrations are cancelled again. We also travel to Argentine s sea waters where an onslaught of foreign fishing fleets threatens marine life.
Let them have AstraZeneca! The negligence of Europe s leaders
As elsewhere in Europe, the German government s decision to suspend the use of the vaccine makes no logical sense when you weigh up the risks in concrete figures, writes Justus Haucap, Professor of Economics at the University of Düsseldorf, in German daily Die Welt:
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1st Gear: BMW Has A Flurry Of Announcements This Morning
Which we will have more about in a bit but for now I will cover the topline one, which is that BMW says that it expects that half of its new car sales will be fully electric by 2030. The company has been getting serious about electric for a bit now. Also, say goodbye to internal combustion engine Minis.
The automaker plans for about half of total sales to be fully electric by the end of the decade, it said on Wednesday. The company also confirmed that its Mini brand will only sell battery-powered cars by the early 2030s.
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A health worker checks the temperature of a woman at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus in Mumbai on March 17, 2021. | Photo Credit: VIVEK BENDRE
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Maharashtra alone accounts for 61.8% of the daily new cases with 17,864 cases. It is followed by Kerala with 1,970 while Punjab reported 1,463 new cases, the Health Ministry said. Kerala is reporting a consistently declining trend over the last one month.
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SHANGHAI (Reuters) - The world is going through an unprecedented chip shortage, Zhou Zixue, a senior official with the China Semiconductor Industry Association, said on Wednesday, after semiconductor sales grew 18% last year.
“If you are an experienced player, you will remember that in 1999 there was a similar crisis in this industry, but it was way smaller,” Zhou, chairman of Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp (SMIC), said in remarks at SEMICON China.
“We have to deepen our cooperation, we have to give more attention to innovation. Only by doing that our industry can control the challenges facing us.”
China is the world’s largest buyer of semiconductors, but domestic production is marginal. Sales in China grew 17.8% in 2020 from a year earlier to 891 billion yuan ($137 billion), according to CSIA.