Domino’s Pizza app must be accessible to blind people

NEW YORK, Jan 18 (NNN-AGENCIES) – Domino’s Pizza has been told its website and app must be made fully accessible to blind people, after losing a legal case in the US. Domino’s is accused of failing to make its app fully compatible with Apple’s accessibility software It follows a complaint…

Malaysian Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad being welcomed by Senegal’s President Macky Sall

DAKAR, Senegal, Jan 17 — Malaysian Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad being welcomed by Senegal’s President Macky Sall ahead of their talks at the Presidential Palace here on Wednesday. Tun Dr Mahathir is in town for the Third International Conference on the Emergence of Africa from January 17 to…

Update: Militant Attack Over, All Terrorists Killed – Kenyan President

Kenya security forces storm in the DusitD2 Hotel to rescue KenyansAl-Shabaab, which carried out a notorious assault on a Nairobi shopping mall in 2013, claimed responsibility over the Riverside attack according to the SITE Intelligence Group which monitors jihadist activities. Elite police forces evacuated terrified workers barricaded in offices after…

Federal workers, activists in New York City protest govt shutdown

US President Donald Trump speaks during a press conference at the Lotte New York Palace Hotel. File Photo courtesy of BERNAMA/Michael Brochstein/ZUMA Wire/dpa 0 NEW YORK, US, Jan 16 (NNN-XINHUA) — Braving freezing temperatures, dozens of federal workers and workers’ rights activists in New York City gathered here Tuesday to protest against the longest-ever government…

Malaysia’s economic fundamentals remain strong, says World Bank

Cityscape of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 15 (NNN-BERNAMA) — Malaysia’s economic fundamentals remain strong due to its diversified economy, despite the recent downgrade by Nomura Global Markets Research on the Malaysian equity market, says the World Bank. World Bank Group’s Macroeconomics, Trade and Investment lead economist Richard Record said Malaysia’s diversified income…

15 killed in cargo plane crash in northern Iran

TEHRAN, Iran, Jan 15 (NNN-IRNA) – At least 15 people were killed on Monday, in a Boeing 707 plane crash, near Iran’s northern city of Karaj, the Iranian Student News Agency (ISNA) reported.  Among the 15 killed, 14 men and one woman on board, 10 could be identified but five…

Public healthcare workers touching lives

The 38 year-old nurse is one of the two joint winners in the Best Professional Nurse category at the Khanyisa Service Excellence Awards. The awards were hosted by the Gauteng Department of Health at Gallagher Estates in Midrand on Thursday Photo courtesy of SA News South Africa, Jan 15 (NNN-…

China’s Tibetan medicinal bathing listed as Intangible Cultural Heritage

Herbs of Lum medicinal bathing of Sowa Rigpa in southwest China’s Tibet Autonomous Region. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) inscribed on Wednesday China’s Lum medicinal bathing of Sowa Rigpa on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, at a convention held in Port…

Protests erupt in Zimbabwe against 150% fuel price hike

0 HARARE, Jan 15 (NNN-AGENCIES) — People took to the streets in Zimbabwe after President Emmerson Mnangagwa announced a 150 percent fuel price hike in a country where unemployment is 80 percent. Protesters barricaded roads and burned tires in a suburb of capital Harare Monday, two days after Mnangagwa announced a…

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