Nearly 20,000 Amazon employees contract Covid-19on October 8, 2020ANKARA: Amazon said almost 20,000 of its workers have contracted the novel coronavirus since March, the first time the e-commerce firm has disclosed a figure since the start of the pandemic. Amazon said Thursday in a blog statement 19,816 employees have tested positive or been presumed positive for Covid-19. “We have done a thorough analysis […]
Activists demand release of detained journalist in IIOJKon August 27, 2020SRINAGAR: Hundreds of journalists have written a letter to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi calling for the release of Kashmiri journalist Asif Sultan who was detained two years ago. The letter, released by the Committee for Protection of Journalists, has been signed by 400 journalists and civil society members worldwide. Sultan was arrested on Aug. […]
‘Diriliş: Ertuğrul’ star meets terminally ill Pakistani childrenon August 19, 2020ISLAMABAD: Turkey’s leading actor Engin Altan Duzyatan on Tuesday met three terminally ill Pakistani children via video link, reported The actor is best known for his role as Ertugrul in the Turkish series Diriliş: Ertuğrul which became popular worldwide. The event was arranged by Make-A-Wish Foundation in Pakistan’s port city of Karachi. It was attended […]
‘Israeli prime minister secretly visited UAE’on August 14, 2020Israel’s prime minister secretly visited the United Arab Emirates (UAE) ahead of the two countries’ deal to normalize ties, an Israeli newspaper reported on Friday. “During the past two years, [Benjamin] Netanyahu has made at least two visits to the UAE, as part of contacts to formulate the agreement,” read a report published by the daily […]
India 3rd country to cross 2M Covid-19 cases markon August 7, 2020NEW DELHI: India’s coronavirus tally crossed the 2 million mark on Thursday evening, also giving it the dubious distinction of trailing only the US and Brazil in total case numbers. It just took 20 days for the country to go from 1 million cases to 2 million, according to Health Ministry figures. The country registered […]
India: Massive landslide kills 5, many trappedon August 7, 2020NEW DELHI: At least five people were killed while 10 were rescued Friday morning from a massive landslide in the southern Indian state of Kerala, local officials said. “Some more families are trapped in the area and the search is ongoing,” Idukki’s district police chief, known as Karuppasamy. R, told Anadolu Agency over the phone. “More details […]
‘Incident’ damages building at Iran nuclear planton July 3, 2020TEHRAN: A mysterious “incident” at Iran’s Natanz nuclear enrichment facility damaged an “industrial shed” early Thursday, according to a spokesperson for the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI). It was the third such incident in a span of one week. The nuclear plant, 250 kilometers (155 miles) south of Tehran, consists of underground nuclear enrichment facilities […]
India, China hold talks to defuse border tensionson June 7, 2020NEW DELHI: Top Chinese and Indian military officials held high-level talks on Saturday to resolve the latest border standoff between the two nuclear-armed neighbors. The talks were held at the Maldo border outpost on the Chinese side of the Line of Actual Control (LAC), the de facto border between the two countries. According to the […]
India, China to hold military talks on border tensionson June 3, 2020NEW DELHI: India has requested high-level military talks with China as a face-off between the two countries continues along the border in India’s northern Ladakh region, an official confirmed Wednesday. On June 6, lieutenant generals from both sides will meet at the Indian border point meeting hut in Ladakh. “India will be led by Lt. […]
UN chief calls for restraint amid George Floyd protestson June 3, 2020UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called on authorities in the US to exercise restraint in responding to protests over the killing of George Floyd, an unarmed black man who died last week after being pinned down by a white police officer. “I am heartbroken to see violence on the streets in our host country and our […]