Rohingya refugees sent to 'flood-prone' island off Bangladesh

Rights activists are concerned about the health of Rohingya refugees who have fled Myanmar.

More boats carrying Rohingya refugees have arrived in waters off Bangladesh.

Some of the refugees have been transferred to a small island, Bhasan Char, described by rights activists as a “dangerously flood-prone island without adequate healthcare”.

Al Jazeera’s Mohammed Jamjoom reports.

India to send home hundreds of thousands of stranded workers

Government is organising trains to transport home workers stranded in cities, as many have no food after losing their jobs and accommodation.

The Indian government is organising trains to transport home hundreds of thousands of workers stranded in cities.

Many have no food after losing their jobs and accommodation.

But the government effort to get workers home is being resisted by business owners who fear they will have no workers once the lockdown is lifted.

Al Jazeera’s Elizabeth Puranam reports from Greater Noida in Uttar Pradesh state.

US Navajo Nation community hit hard by COVID-19

Navajo Nation president says Native American communities are not getting the emergency funds they need for testing and equipment.

COVID-19 has struck particularly hard in the largest Native American reservation in the United States.

Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez has imposed a strict lockdown, curfew and even checkpoints across the Navajo Nation. But he says Native American communities are not getting the emergency funds they need for testing and equipment.

More lives have been lost in the Navajo Nation than in the rest of New Mexico.

Al Jazeera’s Rob Reynolds reports.

Twitter wants users to think twice before sending ‘offensive’ tweets

Twitter wants you to think twice before sending that profanity-laced tweet.

The social network this week began testing a feature that prompts users who have written a tweet using “offensive or hurtful language” to reconsider before hitting the ‘send’ button.

The experimental feature informs users who try to send a potentially vulgar tweet that their words are similar to those in posts that have been reported, and gives them the option to revise it or send it out.

The test will run for a few weeks, and will focus only on English-language tweets.

Twitter has long been under pressure to clean up hateful and abusive content on its platform, which are policed by users flagging rule-breaking tweets and by technology.

“We’re trying to encourage people to rethink their behavior and rethink their language before posting because they often are in the heat of the moment and they might say something they regret,” Sunita Saligram, Twitter’s global head of site policy for trust and safety, told Reuters.

Twitter’s policies do not allow users to target individuals with slurs, racist or sexist tropes, or degrading content.

The company took action against almost 396,000 accounts under its abuse policies and more than 584,000 accounts under its hateful conduct policies between January and June of last year, according to its transparency report.

Shares of Twitter were down 1 percent Wednesday morning, at $27.79.

With Post wires.

Amazon And Twitch To Stream ‘Thursday Night Football’ Games

Amazon.com (AMZN) Wednesday said it has agreed with the National Football League for a three-year deal to continue streaming NFL Thursday night games. The games will be available to Prime Video and Twitch subscribers.

Amazon Prime Video and Twitch will stream the 11 Thursday Night Football games broadcast by FOX, which will be available to more than 150 million paid Prime members worldwide, and in over 200 countries and territories.

Additionally, the NFL and Amazon announced an agreement to exclusively stream one regular season game globally on Prime Video and Twitch, which will be played on a Saturday in the second half of the 2020 NFL regular season.

“As our relationship has expanded, Amazon has become a trusted and valued partner of the NFL,” said Brian Rolapp, Chief Media and Business Officer for the NFL. “Extending this partnership around Thursday Night Football continues our critical mission of delivering NFL games to as many fans in as many ways as possible both in the United States and around the world.”

The Amazon-NFL deal is for three years. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. The two parties had initially signed a streaming agreement in 2017. Under the previous deal, which started in 2018, Amazon paid about $65 million a year for the Thursday games.

Stock Alert: Nexstar Media Group Rises 8% On Sharp Rise In Sales

Shares of Nexstar Media Group, Inc. (NXST) are rising more than 8% Wednesday following significant increase in its first-quarter earnings and sales.

Net income in the first-quarter rose to $156.92 million or $3.30 per share from $54.89 million or $1.15 per share in the same quarter a year ago. On average 8 analysts polled by Thomson Reuters were expecting $2.86.

Revenue increased 74.2% year-over-year $1.092 billion, beat estimates at $1.07 billion.

“while the coronavirus has presented serious challenges for the entire broadcast industry, Nexstar’s leading local broadcast platform is well positioned to withstand this environment due to several factors including continued growth of distribution revenue and what are projected to be record levels of political spending in 2020,” commented Perry A. Sook, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Nexstar Media Group.

NXST is currently trading at $70.50. It has traded in the range of $43.37- $133.25 in the last one year.

Trump to Keep Virus Task Force After Pence Floated Pulling Plug

President Donald Trump says his administration’s coronavirus task force will continue indefinitely, a day after the White House floated the notion of winding it down.

Trump, in a series of tweets Wednesday morning, said the task force will continue with a focus on reopening the country, as well as development of vaccines and therapeutic treatments. “We may add or subtract people to it, as appropriate,” Trump said, without elaborating.

Trump’s tweets come after a series of statements from the White House on Tuesday that the task force, led by Vice President Mike Pence, may be shuttered.

“Mike Pence and the task force have done a great job, but we’re now looking at a little bit of a different form,” Trump said during an event in Phoenix on Tuesday. “We’re having conversations about that,” Pence had said earlier in Washington.

Trump struck up the task force in late January before putting Pence in charge about a month later. Members of the task force held daily news briefings for weeks, but those were dialed back after April 24, when Trump was ridiculed after musing about treating coronavirus patients with light and disinfectant.