Illegal logging in Brazil turns Amazon into a powder keg
RIO: A rifle resting on his shoulder, Tatji Arara looks despondent as he steps over the trunks of huge trees felled by timber traffickers in the heart of Brazil’s Amazon rainforest, now…
Jeff Bezos to keep Amazon voting power after divorce
WASHINGTON: MacKenzie Bezos and Amazon.com Inc founder and Chief Executive Officer Jeff Bezos agreed in a divorce settlement that he would retain all voting rights and 75 per cent of the ex-couple’s…
Two bodies recovered after Amazon cargo plane crashes into Texas bay
TEXAS: Two bodies have been recovered from the wreckage of an Amazon Prime Air cargo plane that nosedived into a bay outside Houston on Saturday, authorities said. All three people aboard the…
Foxconn says investigating labour conditions at China factory used for Amazon
NEW YORK: Contract manufacturer Foxconn said on Sunday it is investigating a plant in China that makes devices for Amazon.com Inc, after a US watchdog group criticized what it described as harsh…
Trump orders review of US Postal Service following criticism of Amazon
WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump on Thursday ordered the creation of a task force to study the US Postal Service and its financial difficulties, after recently claiming without evidence that deliveries for…
Trump taking ‘serious look’ at policy options on Amazon
Aboard Air Force One: US President Donald Trump said on Thursday he would take a serious look at policies to address what he says are the unfair business advantages of online retailer…
Trump attacks Amazon, again, over US postal rates
WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump launched his second attack in a week on Amazon Inc on Saturday, accusing the world’s biggest online retailer of getting unfairly cheap rates from the US Postal…
‘Uninhabited’ Amazon may have been home to a million people
RIO DE JANEIRO: Areas of the Amazon previously thought to be uninhabited may have been home to up to a million people in the centuries before Christopher Columbus arrived, new archaeological research…
Steven Spielberg and Javier Bardem team up for new Amazon miniseries
LOS ANGELES: Academy Award-winner Javier Bardem is all set to star as the Spanish explorer Hernan Cortes in an Amazon miniseries from writer Steven Zaillian and filmmaker Steven Spielberg’s company, Amblin Television.…
Global warming could place species in Amazon at risk
Global warming could place 25 to 50 percent of species in the Amazon, Madagascar and other biodiverse areas at risk of localised extinction within decades, a report said Wednesday. The lower projection…
Forbes declares Amazon chief richest person in world
PARIS: Amazon chief Jeff Bezos is now the world’s richest person, having snatched the top spot from Microsoft founder Bill Gates who slips to second place, according to Forbes magazine’s annual billionaires…
EU aims to tax internet giants at ‘two to six percent’: France
PARIS: The European Union (EU) will soon unveil a plan for taxing major internet companies like Amazon and Facebook by imposing a levy of two to six percent on revenues in every…
Amazon opens automated grocery store of the future
SAN FRANCISCO: Amazon will open its checkout-free grocery store to the public on Monday after more than a year of testing, the company said, moving forward on an experiment that could dramatically…
Pope Francis urges protection of Amazon from ‘consumerist greed’
PUERTO MALDONADO: Pope Francis issued a ringing defence of the people and the environment of the Amazon on Friday, saying big business and “consumerist greed” could not be allowed to destroy a…
Native Peruvians await Pope Francis in Amazon
PUERTO MALDONADO: After lengthy treks through the muddy Amazon, indigenous men, women and children will greet Pope Francis on Friday in a visit to the world’s largest rainforest that native leaders hope…
Saudi Arabia to get Apple and Amazon
RIYADH: Apple and Amazon are in licensing discussions with Riyadh on investing in Saudi Arabia, two sources told Reuters, as part of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s push to give the conservative…
Google pulls YouTube from Amazon devices, escalating spat
A rare public spat in the technology industry escalated on Tuesday when Google said it would block its video streaming application YouTube from two Amazon.com Inc devices and criticized the online retailer…
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