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Google faces unfair practices lawsuit

Legal action has been started alleging unfair and anti-competitive practices.

Legal action has been started by 38 attorneys general in the United States - alleging unfair and anti-competitive practices by Google; we hear from Kiran Stacey, Washington Correspondent at the Financial Times. The US FDA endorses another Covid vaccine for authorisation, this one is made by Moderna, giving strength to the US vaccination effort. We hear from the makers of an at-home coronavirus test kit that doesn't involve a prescription. It's developed by an Australian company called Ellume and received US approval this week.
We have a report from Abuja, Nigeria, on an initiative to use solar-powered fridges to help distribute coronavirus vaccines to even the most remote communities.US President-elect Joe Biden has chosen congresswoman Deb Haaland to serve as the first Native American interior secretary; we hear from Aaron Payment, Tribal Chair of the Sioux Saint Marie Chipawa Indians who hopes her expected appointment will bring change.
And we're joined throughout the programme by Erin Delmore, a political commentator in Vermont and Jyoti Malhotra, editor of national and strategic affairs at The Print website in Delhi. (Picture of Google logo on a phone by Nicolas Economou/NurPhoto via Getty Images).

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