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      19 February

      Amazon asks employees to return to office three days a week

      Amazon CEO Andy Jassy has asked employees to return to office, starting with three days per week from May 1 an Francisco: Amazon CEO Andy Jassy has asked employees to return to office, starting with three days per week from May 1. Earlier, it was up to individual teams at the company to decide who will come to office. Jassy acknowledged that some roles will be exceptions to the new policy, like some salespeople and customer support, but “that will be a small minority.” He also admitted it is not simple to bring thousands of employees back to Amazon offices around the world. “We are going to give the teams that need to do that work some time to develop a plan.…

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    • 19 February

      Pakistan min confesses country has already gone bankrupt, asks people to stand on their feet

      Grappled in an unprecedented economic crisis wherein the price of a litre of milk has surged to Pakistani Rs 250 and chicken, a staple diet of Islamabad, has shot up to Rs 780 per kg, the defence minister declared the country is now “bankrupt”. Addressing a convocation event in Sialkot, the minister and PML-N leader Khwaja Asif said that people must have heard that Pakistan has defaulted and there exists an (economic) meltdown, which stands correct.  The minister’s statement came as the country has been witnessing record-high inflation, even for bread and water. Asif said that Pakistan has not been defaulting, but has “already defaulted”.  “We are residents of a bankrupt country. People have been saying that Pakistan has defaulted and…

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    • 19 February

      Overnight protests rock Iranian cities

      Protests rocked Iran again overnight after a seeming slowdown in recent weeks, with marchers calling for the overthrow of the Islamic Republic, online video posts purportedly showed on Friday. The marches in numerous cities including Tehran that began on Thursday evening and went on into the night marked 40 days since the execution of two protesters last month. Mohammad Mehdi Karami and Seyyed Mohammad Hosseini were hanged on Jan. 8. Two others were executed in December.  The protests that have swept across Iran began last September after the death in custody of 22-year-old Kurdish Iranian woman Mahsa Amini for flouting the hijab policy, which requires women to entirely cover their hair and bodies. Videos on Friday showed overnight demonstrations in several neighbourhoods in Tehran…

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    • 19 February

      The Ukrainian Muslims fighting against Russia

      Those who have joined the war effort against Russian forces also fight past injustices and to return to Crimea. Ali Khadzali stands among the blown-out buildings of his hometown, Kharkiv, about 50 kilometres (31 miles) from Ukraine’s border with Russia. Since Russia’s full-scale invasion began in February, Khadzali has worked with a team of six volunteers to provide humanitarian assistance and evacuate people from areas hit hard by the fighting. d of list Khadzali, a warm, charming 30-year-old, wears a skullcap, a hoodie, and cargo pants. He is on a break between the day’s duties early one afternoon in mid-May. Russian forces have been pushed back from the city, but intense shelling has reduced much of the northern suburbs to…

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    • 19 February

      North Korea fires missile into sea as South Korea and US prepare drills

      A North Korean missile landed in the Sea of Japan this morning after Pyongyang threatened an “unprecedented” response to Western allies’ rumoured military drills in the region. The long-range ballistic missile was fired at 5.22pm (8.28am UK time) from Pyongyang’s international airport, South Korean army officials said. The rocket landed around 125 miles (201km) west of northwestern Oshima Island, according to Tokyo’s vice minister for defence Toshiro Ino, and within Japan’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ). North Korea had vowed “unprecedently” strong action against “arch-criminal” states after South Korea announced a series of military drills with the US over the coming months. Kim Jong Un attended a large-scale military parade on the streets of Pyongyang last week, as troops rolled out…

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    • 19 February

      Earthquake death toll passes 46,000; desperation for signs of life

      ANTAKYA/KAHRAMANMARAS, Turkey (Reuters) – More than 46,000 people have been killed in the earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria and the toll is expected to soar, with some 345,000 apartments in Turkey now known to have been destroyed, and many still missing. © Thomson Reuters As Turkey attempts to manage its worst modern disaster, concerns were growing over the victims of the tragedy in Syria, with the World Food Programme (WFP) pressuring authorities in the northwest to stop blocking access to the area as it seeks to help hundreds of thousands of people ravaged by earthquakes. Twelve days after the quake hit, workers from Kyrgyzstan tried to save a Syrian family of five from the rubble of a building in Antakya…

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    • 19 February

      Sadiq Khan’s Ulez expansion could be blocked by Downing Street

      Sadiq Khan’s Ultra Low Emission Zone (Ulez) expansion could be blocked by Downing Street, under plans being considered by ministers.  Whitehall officials and legal advisors are weighing up whether the London Mayor has exceeded his powers under the Greater London Authority (GLA) Act of 1999. Under the act, the Government has the power to veto any proposals by the Mayor that are “inconsistent” with national transport policies and “detrimental” to areas outside Greater London. The powers, under section 143 of the Act, have never been used before. In August, Mr Khan is set to expand the Ulez zone to cover all 32 boroughs in London, with vehicles that fail to meet emissions standards being forced to pay £12.50 every day to…

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    • 19 February

      At least 9 killed in New Zealand cyclone as PM warns figure could rise during search of cut-off communities

      At least nine people have died following Cyclone Gabrielle, which has devastated large parts of New Zealand. Nearly 5,000 people were registered by police as being out of touch with relatives, and the search continues for about 10 people who are still missing. © Associated Press Authorities said around 62,000 households were without power nationwide – 40,000 of those being in Hawkes Bay, one of the hardest-hit regions. New Zealand declared a national state of emergency for only the third time ever this week as Prime Minister Chris Hipkins said Gabrielle was the country’s “biggest natural disaster” this century. He also warned the number of people declared dead in the disaster could rise as rescue teams try to reach hundreds of cut-off communities.…

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    • 18 February

      Turkey earthquake: In hard-hit Adiyaman, no peace for survivors

      Residents in southeastern Turkish city are reeling from earthquakes that killed thousands and caused widespread devastation. A search and rescue operation in Adiyaman Adiyaman, Turkey – After digging in rubble for 10 days, Ahmet Firat finally had no bodies left to recover – but he felt no peace. “You see us, we look like we’re living but we’re dead. We lost 12 relatives; we also died with them,” the 39-year-old told Al Jazeera, outside his tent in a wind-blown expanse of open ground away from damaged buildings in Adiyaman, southeastern Turkey. Two powerful earthquakes last week devastated towns and cities across southeastern Turkey and northwestern Syria, killing tens of thousands of people and leaving many more in need of shelter and aid. Firat,…

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    • 18 February

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      Turkey-Syria updates: Death toll from earthquakes passes 45,000 An excavator works next to a damaged building in the aftermath of the earthquake in Kahramanmaras, Turkey, Death toll from the Turkey-Syria earthquakes passes 45,000. Total number of people killed in Turkey has hit 39,672. The Syrian government and the UN say more than 5,800 people have died there. ICRC says aid blocked from DamascusThe International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has appealed for aid deliveries from Damascus to be allowed to pass through to the largely opposition-held northwest of the country.“We tried to get into Idlib through crossline and so far we’ve been blocked, unfortunately,” Fabrizio Carboni, ICRC regional director for the near and middle east, said on Friday.“So, I don’t…

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