Netanyahu warns Israel
Jerusalem: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned that his country will attack “anyone who tries to attack us,” a day after Israel said it killed “terrorists” near the Syrian border.
Speaking at the Knesset (parliament) on Monday, Netanyahu said that on Sunday night, Israeli troops “thwarted an attempt to plant explosives on the Syrian front,” reported Xinhua news agency.
Hours later, Israeli fighter jets and aircraft targeted Hamas sites in the Gaza Strip after a rocket was fired towards southern Israel from the besieged Palestinian enclave. The rocket was intercepted by Israel’s anti-rocket Iron Dome system. (IANS)
PIA sacks employees
Islamabad: The Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) last month sacked 63 of its employees, including 5 pilots, on charges of fake degrees, embezzlement and absence from duty.
All five of the sacked pilots were holding fake licences, said PIA spokesperson Abdullah Khan, adding that all the employees were dismissed in accordance to the law.
Twenty-eight employees were removed for fake education credentials and 27 employees were sacked for being absent from duty without notice, Khan told The Express Tribune.
Two employees were fired on charges of embezzlement and one employee was fired for incompetence. (PTI)
Italian air traffic picking up
Milan: Italian air traffic controller provider ENAV says that air traffic in July showed signs of recovery from the coronavirus shutdown. Air traffic in July was three times higher than a month earlier in Italy, as the first Western nation to be hard hit by the coronavirus epidemic started to emerge from lockdown, ENAV reported on Tuesday.
ENAV said 75,200 flights were recorded last month, down 60 per cent from a year earlier but significantly higher than June’s 26,000. Further recovery is expected in August. On the first August weekend, flights were down by just half from last year’s number. (AP)