Category: Global Politics

British Airways Facing Crisis

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COURTESY BY: https://www.bolnews.com/ According to the media reports, due to the financial crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic, British Airways has cut its staff by 13000 employees. The airline has re-contracted the remaining of its employees. The state-run airline, British Airways, is facing the worst financial crisis in its history due to the lockdown caused by the long going coronavirus pandemic. According to the details, the Chief executive officer of British Airways has told the parliamentary committee in a meeting that the airlines is facing its worst-ever financial crunches.  The…

Potential sign of alien life detected on inhospitable Venus

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COURTESY BY: https://www.dawn.com/ Scientists said on Monday they have detected in the harshly acidic clouds of Venus a gas called phosphine that indicates microbes may inhabit Earth’s inhospitable neighbour, a tantalising sign of potential life beyond Earth. The researchers did not discover actual life forms, but noted that on Earth phosphine is produced by bacteria thriving in oxygen-starved environments. The international scientific team first spotted the phosphine using the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope in Hawaii and confirmed it using the Atacama Large Millimetre/submillimetre Array (ALMA) radio telescope in Chile. “I…

Saudi Arabia To Lift Some Flight Restrictions On September 15

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COURTESY BY: https://www.bolnews.com/ Saudi Arabia is set to partially lift its suspension of international flights from Sept 15 to allow “exceptional categories” of citizens and residents to travel, according to its state news agency. The kingdom will lift all travel restrictions for citizens on Jan 1, 2021, it added. The exceptional categories include public and military sector employees, diplomats and their families, those working for public or non-profit private sector jobs abroad, businessmen, patients who need treatment abroad, those studying abroad as well as people with humanitarian causes, and sports teams. The…

United States Commemorates 19th Anniversary Of 9/11 Attacks

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COURTESY BY: https://www.bolnews.com/ The 19th anniversary of the September 11 attacks was marked on Friday. Americans commemorated 9/11 on Friday as a national crisis, reconfigured anniversary ceremonies and a presidential campaign carved a path through the observances. In New York, victims’ relatives gathered Friday morning for split-screen remembrances, one at the Sept. 11 memorial plaza at the World Trade Center and another on a nearby corner, set up by a separate organization. President Trump and first lady Melania Trump attended a morning observance in Shanksville, Pennsylvania where United Flight 93, believed…

After Moscow meeting, China and India agree to disengage troops on contested border

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COURTESY BY: https://www.dawn.com/ China and India said they had agreed to de-escalate renewed tensions on their contested Himalayan border and take steps to restore “peace and tranquillity” following a high-level diplomatic meeting in Moscow. Chinese State Councillor Wang Yi and Indian Foreign Minister S. Jaishankar met in Moscow on Thursday and reached a five-point consensus, including agreements the current border situation is not in their interests and that troops from both sides should quickly disengage and ease tensions, the two countries said in a joint statement. The consensus, struck on…

Depression rate in the US triples during pandemic, study finds

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COURTESY BY: https://www.dawn.com/ The prevalence of symptoms of depression more than tripled in the United States during the Covid-19 pandemic than before it, a study has found, highlighting the extent to which the health crisis could have a toll on mental health. The survey study published in JAMA Network Open, an open-access medical journal published by the American Medical Association, also found that people with lower incomes and those exposed to more Covid-19-related stressors were more likely to report depression symptoms than others. A survey before the pandemic involving nearly 5,000 American adults…

India adds 5 French-made fighter jets in military upgrade

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COURTESY BY: https://www.dawn.com/ The Indian air force inducted into service five French-made Rafale fighter jets on Thursday amid heightened tensions with China along their disputed frontier. New Delhi has sent reinforcements of fighter jets and military equipment to the Ladakh region after the tense standoff there escalated to hand-to-hand combat between Indian and Chinese soldiers on June 15 that left 20 Indians dead. At the ceremony at a northern airbase, India’s Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said the induction of fighter aircraft was very significant given the security situation at India’s borders. In addition to…

Taj Mahal to reopen even as virus rages in India

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COURTESY BY: https://www.dawn.com/ NEW DELHI: India’s top tourist attraction the Taj Mahal is set to reopen more than six months after it was shut, officials said on Tuesday, even as the vast nation battles soaring coronavirus infections. India, home to 1.3 billion people, on Monday overtook Brazil to become the world’s second most-infected nation with more than 4.2 million cases, behind only the United States. “The Taj Mahal will reopen on Sept 21. All Covid-19 protocols, like physical distancing, masks will be followed,” northern Uttar Pradesh state’s Tourism Department deputy…

Generals want to keep arms makers happy: Trump

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COURTESY BY: https://www.dawn.com/ WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump accused the US military brass on Monday of wanting to fight wars to keep weapon makers happy. At a White House news conference, Trump criticised his rival Joe Biden, describing him as a proponent of “endless wars”, before turning his criticism toward military leaders who he himself appointed, saying they are interested in conflict to satisfy military contractors. “I’m not saying the military is in love with me. The soldiers are. The top people in the Pentagon probably aren’t because they want to…

China displays Covid-19 vaccines for first time

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COURTESY BY: https://www.dawn.com/ BEIJING: China has put its homegrown coronavirus vaccines on display for the first time, as the country where the contagion was discovered looks to shape the narrative surrounding the pandemic. High hopes hang on the small vials of liquid on show at a Beijing trade fair this week — vaccine candidates produced by Chinese companies Sinovac Biotech and Sinopharm. Neither has hit the market yet but the makers hope they will be approved after all-important phase 3 trials as early as year-end. A Sinovac representative said his…