‘Media meddling in country’s affairs’
Ankara: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has accused media institutions, such as the New York Times (NYT), CNN and BBC, of trying to weaken the country ahead of the June 7 Parliamentary elections, Daily News newspaper reported on Wednesday. In a growing controversy over media rights in Turkey ahead of the June 7 legislative polls, the President said various domestic media betrayed the country’s national interests.
Qatar denies deaths of Indian workers
Doha: Terming recent media reports “untrue”, the Government of Qatar, which will host the 2022 FIFA World Cup, in a statement denied that Indian and Nepali workers’ have died during construction work and said that not a single life has been lost.
An article in the Washington Post on May 27 headlined “The human toll of FIFA’s corruption” claimed that 4,000 workers are likely to die while working on World Cup sites, and that some 1,200 have already lost their lives.
Pets outnumber children in Brazil
Rio de Janerio: Pets outnumber children in Brazilian households, a media report said. There are 52.2 million pet dogs in Brazil while the number of children aged 0 to 14 years is 44.9 million, reported Brazil’s G1 news website. Some 44.3 percent of Brazilian households have at least one dog, with each household having 1.8 dogs on an average, Xinhua reported.