Month: October 2020

British govt bolsters salary support for those hit by lockdowns

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COURTESY BY: https://www.dawn.com/ LONDON: The British government said on Friday it will pay two- thirds of the salaries of workers in companies that have to close as a result of new coronavirus restrictions widely expected to come into effect next week. In a change of policy, Treasury chief Rishi Sunak has responded to calls from businesses, local leaders and unions to provide a financial support package to prevent mass job losses in sectors that will be subject to new restrictions. Pubs and restaurants in large parts of the north of…

Armenia, Azerbaijan trade accusations of breaching Karabakh ceasefire

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COURTESY BY: https://www.dawn.com/ Armenia and Azerbaijan traded accusations of new attacks on Saturday in breach of a ceasefire deal to end nearly two weeks of heavy fighting over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region. The two sides agreed to implement the ceasefire from noon (0800 GMT) on Saturday, after 11 hours of talks in Moscow, but it took only minutes after the deadline for their forces to claim new attacks. An ethnic Armenian enclave of Azerbaijan, Karabakh broke from the country’s control in a war in the 1990s that killed some 30,000…

UN’s World Food Programme Wins Nobel Peace Prize

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COURTESY BY: https://www.bolnews.com/ The United Nations’ World Food Programme declared as the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize for the agency’s “efforts to prevent the use of hunger as a weapon of war”. “For its effort to combat hunger, for its contribution to bettering conditions for peace in conflict-affected areas and for acting as a driving force in efforts to prevent the use of hunger as a weapon of war and conflict,” announced the Nobel Prize Committee on Twitter. BREAKING NEWS: The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the…

Europe leads record one-day surge in Covid-19 cases

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COURTESY BY: https://www.dawn.com/ GENEVA: The World Health Organisation reported a record one-day increase in global coronavirus cases on Thursday, with the total rising by 338,779 in 24 hours led by a surge of infections in Europe. Europe reported 96,996 new cases, the highest total for the region ever recorded by the WHO. Global deaths rose by 5,514 to a total of 1.05 million. The previous WHO record for new cases was 330,340 on Oct 2. The agency reported a record 12,393 deaths on April 17. As a region, Europe is…

Trump maps return to campaign trail after White House says Covid-19 treatment complete

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COURTESY BY: https://www.dawn.com/ United States President Donald Trump on Friday prepared to return to the campaign trail with a pair of weekend rallies after his Covid-19 diagnosis sidelined him for a week in the race against Democratic nominee Joe Biden for the White House. The Republican president, who announced he had been infected with the novel coronavirus on October 2 and spent three nights in a military hospital receiving treatment, said late on Thursday he was feeling “really good” and, with a doctor’s blessing, aimed to campaign in Florida on Saturday and…

Government Probes Microsoft’s Plan To Hire More Black Staff Members

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COURTESY BY: https://www.bolnews.com/ Microsoft is being questioned by the US government over whether a diversity initiative amounts to racial discrimination. The Department of Labor has singled out Microsoft’s pledge to double the number of “black and African American” senior staff by 2025. Officials have warned the company the target appears “to imply that the employment action may be taken on the basis of race”. Microsoft denies the accusation. “We are clear that the law prohibits us from discriminating on the basis of race,” the firm’s lawyer Dev Stahlkopf blogged. “We…

Covid-19 protocols – PCB takes a pragmatic approach

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COURTESY BY: https://www.pcb.com.pk/ Lahore, 8 October 2020: Pakistan Cricket Board has allowed the players and support staff to be joined by their families in the team hotel for the second round of the National T20 Cup, which gets under way in Rawalpindi on Friday, 9 October. However, before reuniting and as part of the PCB Covid-19 protocols, the families will have to undergo two mandatory tests. Once they become part of the bio-secure bubble at the hotel and the venue, they will remain part of it until they decide to…

China tells Indian media not to call Taiwan a country, Taiwan says ‘get lost’

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COURTESY BY: https://www.dawn.com/ China was accused by Taiwan of trying to impose censorship in India after its embassy in New Delhi advised journalists to observe the “one-China” principle after newspapers carried advertisements for Taiwan’s national day. Coming just months after deadly clashes between Indian and Chinese troops on the disputed Himalayan border between the two Asian giants, the controversy has flared at a time when Indian sentiments toward China are filled with antipathy and suspicion. China’s hackles were raised on Wednesday by advertisements placed in leading Indian newspapers by Taiwan’s…

Facebook, Instagram ban QAnon conspiracy-linked accounts ahead of US election

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COURTEYS BY: https://www.dawn.com/ Facebook on Tuesday announced a ban on all accounts linked to the QAnon conspiracy group, as the social network tries to clamp down on misinformation ahead of the heated US presidential election. The move against QAnon at Facebook and its image-sharing platform Instagram comes as the online giant tries to avoid being used to deceive or confuse voters, as was the case during the 2016 election that put US President Donald Trump in the White House. “We will remove any Facebook pages, groups and Instagram accounts representing…

Iran fears regional war as fighting rages around Nagorno-Karabakh

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COURTESY BY: https://www.dawn.com/ Iran’s president warned on Wednesday that fighting between Azeri and ethnic Armenian forces in the South Caucasus could trigger a regional war as the death toll rose on the 11th day of hostilities. More than 300 have now died in the renewed fighting in and around the mountain enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh, which under international law belongs to Azerbaijan but is populated and governed by ethnic Armenians. Azerbaijan says Azeri cities outside the conflict zone have also been attacked in the deadliest fighting in more than 25 years,…