Sunday, 12 December 2021 (YJC)_ At least six people have been killed and one injured when a Amazon warehouse collapsed in a hurricane in the US state of Illinois.
Wednesday, 14 April 2021_Amazon has accused Parler, the social network known as a conservative alternative to Twitter, of trying to conceal its ownership amid a legal dispute between Amazon and Parler stemming from the US Capitol riots.
Monday, 01 March 2021_Amazon’s corporate workplace has deep, systemic issues that disadvantage African American employees and workers from other underrepresented backgrounds, according to Recode.
Friday, 22 January 2021_A US judge on Thursday rejected Parler’s demand that Amazon.com Inc. restore web hosting services for the social media platform, which Amazon had cut off following the Jan. 6 storming of the US Capitol.
Saturday, 01 August 2020_The number of fires in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest jumped 28 percent in July from a year ago, official data showed on Saturday, as some environmentalists warned a jump this week could signal a repeat of last year’s surging destruction of the world’s largest rainforest.
Friday, 10 July 2020_Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rose for the 14th consecutive month in June, preliminary government data on Friday showed, heaping further pressure on President Jair Bolsonaro, who is under fire for worsening destruction of the rainforest on his watch.
Tehran 23 February _The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has censured online retail giant Amazon over its policy that allows the Jewish settlers living in settlements free delivery but charges Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.
Tehran 7 February _Brazilian President, Jair Bolsonaro, has unveiled a sweeping plan for the Amazon rainforest that would open indigenous lands to mining -- a "dream" for the far-right leader, but a "nightmare" for environmentalists and tribal leaders.
TEHRAN, Nov 23_Amazon.com Inc filed a lawsuit in a federal U.S. court on Friday contesting the U.S. Defense Department’s decision last month to award a Pentagon cloud computing contract worth up to $10 billion to rival bidder Microsoft Corp.
TEHRAN, Nov 3_Illegal loggers in the Amazon ambushed an indigenous group that was formed to protect the forest and shot dead a young warrior and wounded another, leaders of the Guajajara tribe in northern Brazil said on Saturday.
TEHRAN, Sept 14 -A U.S. House of Representatives panel on Friday demanded internal emails, detailed financial information and other company records from top executives of Amazon.com Inc., Facebook Inc, Apple Inc, and Alphabet Inc’s Google, widening the antitrust probe of Big Tech.
TEHRAN, August 31 -The fires in the Amazon are “extraordinarily concerning” for the planet’s natural life support systems, the head of the UN’s top biodiversity body has said in a call for countries, companies and consumers to build a new relationship with nature.
TEHRAN, August 31 -Brazil's President, Jair Bolsonaro, said Friday Europe has "nothing to teach" the country about preserving the environment, as data showed thousands of new fires were ignited on the first day of a burning ban.
TEHRAN, Jul 30 -An international team of scientists, led by researchers at the University of Oklahoma, used satellite photos and advanced algorithms to more accurately characterize annual forest gains and losses in the Brazilian Amazon over the last two decades.
TEHRAN, Jun 18 - Long before Europeans arrived in the Americas, the people of the Amazon were being significantly impacted by climate change, a new report suggests.
TEHRAN, Jun 3 - Online retail giant Amazon said it would open pop-up shops in Britain to give more than 100 small online businesses an opportunity to sell on the high street for the first time.
TEHRAN, May 27- Amazon has removed a book written by Hezbollah Deputy Secretary General Sheikh Naim Qassem from its bookstore under Israeli pressure after UN Special Coordinator for Lebanon Jan Kubis recommended it as “a necessary reading.”