Archive Detail
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Trump advises Fed not to consider intere | Washington, Dec 18 (TIWN / IANS) US President Donald Trump advised the Federal Reserve (Fed) not to raise interest rates at its meeting this week, given the strength of the dollar and an almost absence of inflation. | 17-Dec-2018 |
Turkey grants citizenship to 72K Syrian | Ankara, Dec 17 (TIWN / IANS) The Turkish government has granted citizenship to a total of 72,000 Syrian refugees, Hurriyet daily reported on Monday. | 17-Dec-2018 |
US praises Pakistan for promoting Afghan | Washington, Dec 17 (TIWN / IANS) The US has said that it welcomes Pakistans efforts to promote peace talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban, a media report said on Monday. | 17-Dec-2018 |
Putin calendar sells out in Japan | Tokyo, Dec 17 (TIWN / IANS) Russian President Vladimir Putin's calendar that features the leader taking a dip in the icy waters of Lake Seliger or making short work of weights in the gym, was sold out in Japan, outselling those of domestic celebrities. | 17-Dec-2018 |
Indian jailed in Dubai for stabbing coll | Dubai, Dec 17 (TIWN / IANS) An Indian construction worker has been jailed in Dubai for 15 years for getting drunk and stabbing his colleague and attacking another co-worker who tried to stop him. | 17-Dec-2018 |
Trump calls ex-lawyer Cohen a 'rat' | Washington, Dec 17 (TIWN / IANS) President Donald Trump called his former personal lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen - who was sentenced to three years in prison after cooperating with prosecutors in several investigations, including the so-called "Russia probe" - a "rat" on Twitter. | 16-Dec-2018 |
Bangladesh celebrates 47th Victory Day | Dhaka, Dec 16 (TIWN / IANS) Bangladesh on Sunday celebrated the 47th Victory Day commemorating the day when Pakistan surrendered and Bangladesh emerged as a new country, ending the decades-long rule of West Pakistan. | 16-Dec-2018 |
Volcano erupts in Indonesia | Jakarta, Dec 16 (TIWN / IANS) A volcano erupted in Indonesia's North Sulawesi province on Sunday, spewing a column of ash measuring 7.5 km to the sky, a disaster agency official said. | 16-Dec-2018 |
Trump's Chief of Staff pick calls him 't | Washington, Dec 16 (TIWN / IANS) US President Donald Trump's budget director and his pick to be the acting Chief of Staff, Mick Mulvaney, called Trump "a terrible human being" during a campaign debate in 2016. | 15-Dec-2018 |
From now, my priorities will be ambition | Katowice (Poland), Dec 16 (TIWN / IANS) UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has said the Katowice climate change conference has shown once more the resilience of the Paris Agreement and from now his priorities will be ambition. | 15-Dec-2018 |
World agrees on rules to operationalise | Katowice (Poland), Dec 16 (TIWN / IANS) Nearly 200 nations have agreed to enforce rules on implementing the landmark 2015 Paris Climate Change Agreement. | 15-Dec-2018 |
US man charged with hate crime for assau | New York, Dec 15 (TIWN / IANS) A 54-year-old man has been charged with hate crime for assaulting an Indian-origin woman on a subway and hurling homophobic slurs at her. | 15-Dec-2018 |
6 soldiers killed during anti-terror rai | Islamabad, Dec 15 (TIWN / IANS) At least six security personnel have been killed during an anti-terror operation in Pakistan's Balochistan province. | 15-Dec-2018 |
Trump names Mulvaney as acting White Hou | Washington, Dec 15 (TIWN / IANS) US President Donald Trump on Friday named budget director Mick Mulvaney as acting chief of staff, a week after he announced John Kelly's scheduled departure. | 14-Dec-2018 |
UN resolution a key victory for Italian | Rome, Dec 15 (IANS/AKI) Italy has scored a "major victory" in a global health and nutrition resolution passed by the United General Assembly that safeguards traditional Italian food products, interior minister and deputy minister Matteo Salvini tweeted on Friday. | 14-Dec-2018 |
Conte discusses Italy's spending plans w | Brussels, Dec 15 (IANS/AKI) Italy premier Giuseppe Conte had a breakfast meeting on Friday with Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel at a hotel in central Brussels to discuss populist government's expansionary budget, unexpectedly cancelling a planned press briefing to fit in the meeting. | 14-Dec-2018 |
Dassault Aviation welcomes SC decision o | Saint Cloud (France), Dec 14 (TIWN / IANS) The Dassault Aviation on Friday welcomed the decision of the Supreme Court that dismissed petitions seeking a court-monitored probe into the Rs 59,000-crore Rafale fighter jet deal. | 14-Dec-2018 |
Khashoggi killing: US Senate passes reso | Washington, Dec 14 (TIWN / IANS) The US Senate has passed a resolution blaming and condemning Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman for the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, ratcheting up pressure on President Donald Trump who has aligned himself with the Saudi kingdom in the aftermath of the ghastly killing. | 14-Dec-2018 |
Trump's inaugural committee probed over | Washington, Dec 14 (IANS) US President Donald Trump's 2017 inaugural committee is currently being investigated by federal prosecutors for possible financial abuses related to foreign donations raised for his inauguration, the media reported. | 14-Dec-2018 |
Multiple locations in US receive email, | Washington, Dec 14 (TIWN / IANS) Multiple institutions across the US on Thursday received emails and phone calls threatening bomb attacks, which caused evacuations and law enforcement actions. | 13-Dec-2018 |
ISL: Bengaluru goal too good for ATK | Bengaluru, Dec 14 (TIWN / IANS) After back-to-back draws, Bengaluru FC returned to winning ways in the Indian Super League (ISL) with a solitary goal win against ATK at the Sree Kanteerava Stadium here on Thursday. | 13-Dec-2018 |
Senate votes to end US military support | Washington, Dec 14 (IANS) The US Senate voted on Thursday in favour of a bill asking the Donald Trump administration to end the military support it is providing to Saudi Arabia in the latter's war in Yemen, a move taken amid the controversy sparked by the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in early October at Riyadh's consulate in Istanbul. | 13-Dec-2018 |
Second Canadian may have been detained i | Ottawa, Dec 13 (TIWN / IANS) A second Canadian may have been detained in China in a potential act of retribution that threatens to escalate the diplomatic dispute between Washington, Beijing and Ottawa following the arrest of Huawei's Chief Financial Officer (CFO) in Vancouver, a CNN report said on Thursday. | 13-Dec-2018 |
7 killed in Turkey train accident | Ankara, Dec 13 (TIWN / IANS) At least seven people were killed and 43 others injured on Thursday when a high-speed train collided with a locomotive in Turkey's capital city of Ankara. | 13-Dec-2018 |
Trump names Robert Williams as his point | Washington, Dec 13 (TIWN / IANS) US President Donald Trump on Wednesday said that he intends to name an experienced intelligence officer as the assistant secretary of state for South Asian affairs. | 12-Dec-2018 |
Italy's strategic analysis committee mee | Rome, Dec 13 (IANS/AKI) Italy's national strategic analysis committee met on Wednesday to assess the security threat pose by Islamic extremist networks in the wake of the deadly Strasbourg Christmas market attack, Interior Minister and Deputy Premier Matteo Salvini said. | 12-Dec-2018 |
Trump's ex-lawyer Cohen sentenced to 3 y | New York, Dec 13 (TIWN / IANS) US President Donald Trump's former long-term personal attorney, Michael Cohen was sentenced here on Wednesday to 36 months in prison for tax fraud and campaign finance violations arising from payoffs he made during the 2016 campaign to women who claimed to have had affairs with the then-candidate. | 12-Dec-2018 |
Indian charged with smuggling foreign na | Washington, Dec 12 (TIWN / IANS) A 38-year-old Indian man has been charged with conspiring to smuggle six of his countrymen into the US on commercial airline flights, authorities said. | 12-Dec-2018 |
NASA satellite maps Antarctica ice sheet | Washington, Dec 12 (TIWN / IANS) NASA's satellite to track Earth's melting ice has revealed accurate first maps of Antarctica such that it can measure sea ice height to within an inch, the US sapace agency has said. | 12-Dec-2018 |
3 killed in France Christmas market shoo | Paris, Dec 12 (TIWN / IANS) A massive hunt was underway on Wednesday for a gunman who opened fire near a Christmas market in the French city of Strasbourg, killing three people and injuring 12 others, police said. | 12-Dec-2018 |
Mexico estimates 1,100 migrants crossed | Mexico City, Dec 12 (TIWN / IANS) Some 1,100 migrants of the Central American caravan could have crossed into the US, according to Mexican government estimates. | 11-Dec-2018 |
12 killed in Taliban attack on Afghan se | Kabul, Dec 11 (TIWN / IANS) At least four members of the Afghan security forces and eight civilians, including two women and a child, were killed on Tuesday in a suicide car bombing by the Taliban targeting a military convoy in a district of Kabul province. | 11-Dec-2018 |
Russian fighter jets in Venezuela raise | Caracas, Dec 11 (TIWN / IANS) Tensions between Kremlin and the US on Tuesday continued to rise as two Russian bombers capable of carrying nuclear weapons landed in Venezuela in a show of support for the government of socialist President Nicolás Maduro. | 11-Dec-2018 |
NASA probe finds water on asteroid Bennu | Washington, Dec 11 (TIWN / IANS) NASA's first spacecraft sent to collect sample from an asteroid has found water locked inside asteroid Bennu -- a remnant from early in the formation of the solar system. | 11-Dec-2018 |
Kremlin says tired of following 'sensati | Moscow, Dec 11 (TIWN / IANS) The Kremlin on Monday said that Moscow has grown tired of following sensational investigations in the US with respect to Russia's alleged involvement in the US previous presidential election. | 10-Dec-2018 |
CBI agrees to provide consular access to | New Delhi, Dec 11 (TIWN / IANS) The CBI on Monday said it has agreed to provide consular access to British national Christian Michel, who was extradited to India from the UAE on December 4 in the Rs 3,600-crore AgustaWestland chopper deal case, and will inform to British High Commission about the decision through due process. | 10-Dec-2018 |
Myanmar court to hear Reuters reporters' | Yangon, Dec 10 (TIWN / IANS) A Myanmar court will hear later this month the appeal of two Reuters reporters jailed on charges of violating a colonial-era Act while investigating the killing of Rohingyas in the country, one of their lawyers said on Monday. | 10-Dec-2018 |
Spacewalk: Russian cosmonauts to check h | Washington, Dec 10 (TIWN / IANS) Two Russian cosmonauts will go for a six-hour-long spacewalk on Tuesday to check a hole in the external hull of the Soyuz MS-09 spacecraft currently docked to the International Space Station (ISS). | 10-Dec-2018 |
Trump accuses Comey of lying in testimon | Washington, Dec 10 (TIWN / IANS) US President Donald Trump has accused former FBI Director James Comey of lying during his testimony before a congressional committee last week, when the ex-official revealed that the investigation into presumed Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election was initially focused on four US citizens. | 09-Dec-2018 |
US army kills 4 al-Shabab militants in S | Mogadishu, Dec 10 (TIWN / IANS) The US military has said its special forces conducted an airstrike in Somalia on Saturday, killing four al-Shabab militants. | 09-Dec-2018 |
Russian Navy ships arrive in India for m | New Delhi, Dec 9 (TIWN / IANS) Russian Federation Navy (RuFN) ships Varyag, Admiral Panteleyev and Boris Butoma on Sunday arrived at Visakhapatnam to participate in INDRA NAVY, the bilateral maritime exercise with Indian Navy. | 09-Dec-2018 |
Wintertime ice growth in Arctic sea slow | New York, Dec 9 (TIWN / IANS) While sea ice in the Arctic continues to be on the decline, a new research from the US Space agency suggests that it is regrowing at faster rates during the winter than it was a few decades ago. | 09-Dec-2018 |
Chief of Staff John Kelly leaving by yea | Washington, Dec 9 (TIWN / IANS) US President Donald Trump has announced that his Chief of Staff John Kelly will exit the White House by the end of the year. | 08-Dec-2018 |
1,385 'yellow vest' protesters arrested | Paris, Dec 9 (TIWN / IANS) At least 1,385 protesters were arrested across France during the fourth weekend of "gilets jaunes" or the "yellow vest" demonstrations against the government of President Emmanuel Macron. | 08-Dec-2018 |
6 killed in Italy nightclub stampede | Rome, Dec 8 (TIWN / IANS) At least six people were killed and 35 injured on Saturday following a stampede at a nightclub in Italy, authorities said. | 08-Dec-2018 |
Google announces 'Journalism AI' project | London, Dec 8 (TIWN / IANS) To help news industry use Artificial Intelligence (AI) in more innovative ways, Google has announced a partnership with Polis, the international journalism think-tank at London School of Economics and Political Science, to create "Journalism AI". | 08-Dec-2018 |
China launches lunar probe to study moon | Beijing, Dec 8 (TIWN / IANS) China launched a lunar probe on Saturday which is expected to make the first-ever soft landing on the far side of the moon. | 08-Dec-2018 |
Trump ex-lawyer Michael Cohen's help wit | Washington, Dec 8 (TIWN / IANS) US President Donald Trump's ex-lawyer has given substantial help on how Russian nationals tried to affect the 2016 election, a legal memo has revealed. | 07-Dec-2018 |
NASA's InSight lander 'hears' Martian wi | Los Angeles, Dec 8 (TIWN / IANS) NASA's InSight lander, which touched down on Mars on November 26, has provided the first ever "sounds" of Martian wind on the Red Planet, the NASA said. | 07-Dec-2018 |
12 dead in bank robbery attempt in Brazi | Rio de Janeiro, Dec 8 (TIWN / IANS) At least 12 people have died following a shootout between a group of alleged bank robbers and the police in Brazil, officials said. | 07-Dec-2018 |