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A recent poll in the UK revealed there was a high level of support among managers for making Covid-19 vaccines mandatory for staff returning to work. The survey of more than 1,000 managers, conducted by the Chartered Management Institute, showed that about half think office access should be restricted for those who refused to get…

LJ Rich looks at the best of the week’s technology news stories including: UK’s Competition and Markets Authority orders Meta, Facebook’s parent company, to sell Giphy – a Gif-sharing search engine Co-founder and CEO of Twitter, Jack Dorsey, steps down as chief executive of the company A virtual yacht sells for $650,000 (£490,000) inside building…

Dr Sasa, Myanmar’s UN envoy, appointed by the disbanded parliament, says the country’s military is looking to cause as much pain and suffering as possible to retain control. Dr Sasa, fled Myanmar, also known as Burma on 1 February, the day of the military coup. He is asking the world to stand with the people…

The German climate change campaigner Luisa Neubauer says that awareness about the “climate catastrophe” is “higher than ever” among Germans as they prepare to go the polls. The 25-year-old activist, who is one of the organisers of school strikes for the climate in Germany, told BBC World News that more than 80 per cent of…

BBC Click’s Romana Kreider looks at the best technology news stories of the week including: Dating app Bumble temporarily closes its offices and gives its staff a week off to combat workplace stress An autonomous ship’s voyage to the US is cut short when it develops a fault and has to return to the UK…

Covid may have put much of the world into lockdown but conflict, persecution and human rights violations has led to a record number of refugees, the UN’s refugee agency (UNHCR) has said. According the UNHCR’s 2020 Global Trends report, some two thirds of the world’s refugees came from just five countries; Syria, Venezuela, Afghanistan, South…