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California continues to battle wildfires | San Francisco, Oct 14 (TIWN) Firefighters have continued to contain the blazing wildfires in Southern California, while some evacuation orders have been lifted for residents. | 14-Oct-2019 |
Indian Railways is linking its trains to | New Delhi, Oct 13 (TIWN): It is 2.58 pm on Monday. An Indian Railways (IR) controller, Kapil Dev, is focusing on one train — No. 22430, Pathankot-Delhi Superfast Express, which has just departed from Karnal station in Haryana. | 13-Oct-2019 |
US-China trade negotiators reach prelimi | Washington, Oct 13 (TIWN) Chinese and American trade negotiators have reached a preliminary agreement aimed at easing the ongoing trade war between the two nations after holding a new round of high-level talks in Washington, media reports said. | 13-Oct-2019 |
US Acting Homeland Security Secretary st | Washington, Oct 13 (TIWN) US Acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan has stepped down from his post, President Donald Trump has announced. | 13-Oct-2019 |
Turkey denies attacking US troops in Syr | Ankara, Oct 12 (TIWN) The Turkish government on Saturday denied that its Army had launched attacks on US special forces deployed in northeastern Syria, as it was earlier claimed by the Pentagon. | 12-Oct-2019 |
UAE-based Indian expat's visa case goes | Dubai, Oct 12 (TIWN) A Dubai-based Indian expat's plea regarding his passport taken away from him and being kept as a collateral against a bank loan has gone viral on Twitter. | 12-Oct-2019 |
Modi-Xi hold second informal talks | Mahabalipuram, Oct 12 (TIWN) Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping began their second informal talks at the Taj Fisherman's Cove Resort & Spa beach resort near here. | 12-Oct-2019 |
International media ignoring Kashmir: Im | Islamabad, Oct 11 (TIWN) Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Friday said he is puzzled as to how the international media is continuing to give headline coverage to the Hong Kong protests but is ignoring the "dire human rights crisis" in Jammu and Kashmir. | 11-Oct-2019 |
Nepal, China to discuss extradition trea | Kathmandu, Oct 11 (TIWN) Nepal and China are set to discuss an extradition treaty during the two-day state visit of Chinese President Xi Jinping to Kathmandu beginning on Saturday. | 11-Oct-2019 |
Ethiopian PM Abiy Ahmed wins Nobel Peace | Oslo, Oct 11 (TIWN) Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has been awarded the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to "achieve peace and international cooperation" in the African nation, especially his "decisive initiative" to resolve the two-decade border conflict with Eritrea, it was announced on Friday. | 11-Oct-2019 |
Trump to meet with China's top trade neg | Washington, Oct 11 (TIWN) US President Donald Trump said that he will hold talks with China's Vice Premier and top trade negotiator Liu He at the White House on Friday, a meeting that comes a week before Washington is set to further ratchet up the trade war with higher tariffs on Chinese imports. | 11-Oct-2019 |
President pays tribute to former Maharaj | Mysuru, Oct 11 (TIWN) President Ram Nath Kovind on Thursday attended the birth centenary celebration of Maharaja Jayachamaraja Wadiyar of Mysore. | 11-Oct-2019 |
British IS fighters in US custody, says | Washington, Oct 10 (TIWN) US President Donald Trump has said that two Britons, who are accused of being part of an Islamic State (IS) terror group cell which kidnapped and murdered Western hostages, have been taken out of Syria to "a secure location controlled" by Washington, it was reported on Thursday. | 10-Oct-2019 |
Pak's MQM founder charged by UK police | Islamabad/London, Oct 10 (TIWN) Altaf Hussain, the founder of Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), was on Thursday charged with a terrorism offence in a case related to his incendiary speech relayed from the UK to his followers in Pakistan in 2016. | 10-Oct-2019 |
Polish, Austrian authors win Nobel Prize | Stockholm, Oct 10 (TIWN) Polish author Olga Tokarczuk and Austria's Peter Handke have been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, it was announced on Thursday. | 10-Oct-2019 |
Hasina to order crackdown on illicit act | Dhaka, Oct 10 (TIWN) Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said that she would soon order law-enforcement agencies to start a nationwide crackdown on illicit activity in universities and other educational institutions. | 10-Oct-2019 |
Trump, Biden in all-out war | Washington, Oct 10 (TIWN) With Barack Obama's old running mate Joe Biden now an outlier with the Donald Trump administration and worse still, a challenger for the 2020 presidency, the stand-off between the two has only grown fiercer. In an angry address in New Hampshire, Biden argued that "President Trump has indicted himself by obstructing justice, refusing to comply with a congressional inquiry... he's already convicted himself". This is the first time Biden has openly called for Trump's impeachment. | 09-Oct-2019 |
3 scientists share Nobel Prize in Chemis | Stockholm, Oct 9 (TIWN) The 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry on Wednesday has been awarded to John B. Goodenough, M. Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino "for the development of lithium-ion batteries". | 09-Oct-2019 |
Pelosi doesn't back down, goes for the k | Washington, Oct 9 (TIWN) Don't dress betrayal as a favour for sorrows don't come individually but in battalions, is what a usually blasé but now besieged US President Donald Trump must be thinking. | 09-Oct-2019 |
Beijing flays US for blacklisting Chines | Beijing, Oct 9 (TIWN) Days ahead of the US China trade talks, Beijing has opposed to Washington adding 28 Chinese organisations and companies to its blacklist over their alleged involvement in abuses against Uighurs and other Muslim minorities in Xinjiang province. | 09-Oct-2019 |
Rajnath meets French counterpart, discus | Paris, Oct 9 (TIWN) Defence Minister Rajnath Singh held discussions on a wide range of issues pertaining to India's bilateral defence engagement with his French counterpart during his three-day visit to France. | 09-Oct-2019 |
Trump takes knife to prison yard | Washington DC, Oct 9 (TIWN) Washington resembles a bullpen where a verbal shell game is on. This evening Donald Trump fighting his accusers in what has become a brutal cage match took the knife to the fight in the prison yard. His counter attack vicious and determined and monotypical of his style and mien. | 08-Oct-2019 |
India President, PM extend greetings on | New Delhi, Oct 8 (TIWN) President Ram Nath Kovind, Vice President M. Venkaiah Naidu and Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday extended greetings to citizens on the occasions of Dussehra and Air Force Day. | 08-Oct-2019 |
Japan protests N.Korean boat's incursion | Tokyo, Oct 8 (TIWN) Japan on Tuesday protested the incursion of a North Korean fishing boat in its territorial waters, a day after it collided with a Japanese Fisheries Agency patrol boat, which was trying to expel it from the countrys Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ). | 08-Oct-2019 |
US begins troop withdrawal from Turkey's | Damascus, Oct 8 (TIWN) The US on Monday pulled out forces from observation points in northeastern Syria along the borderline with Turkey amid threats by Ankara to launch a military campaign against the US-backed Kurdish forces, a war monitor reported. | 08-Oct-2019 |
Women not allowed to participate in 'Aza | Islamabad, Oct 8 (TIWN) The participation of women is banned in the 'Azadi March' on October 27, announced by the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Fazl (JUI-F) aiming to remove the Prime Minister Imran Khan-led government from power. | 08-Oct-2019 |
10 killed as blast rocks Afghanistan's J | Jalalabad (Afghanistan), Oct 8 (TIWN) At least ten civilians were killed and 27 others wounded as a blast targeted a mini-bus of security forces in Nangarhar's provincial capital Jalalabad on Monday, provincial government spokesman Attaullah Khogiani said. | 08-Oct-2019 |
Pak magazine claims MBS called back Imra | Islamabad, Oct 7 (TIWN) A Pakistani magazine has claimed that Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman was "alienated" with "some dimensions" of Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khans actions on the sidelines of the UNGA session in New York last month, that he ordered his "private jet to disembowel the Pakistani delegation" as a consequence. | 07-Oct-2019 |
Iran arrests Insta star for posting Joli | Tehran, Oct 7 (TIWN) An Iranian Instagram star who posted her spooky images resembling Hollywood actor Angelina Jolie has been arrested on blasphemy charges, the media reported. | 07-Oct-2019 |
'Astami' puja celebrated across Banglade | DHAKA / AGARTALA, Oct 6 (TIWN): Maha Astami, the second day of the five-day Durga Puja of the Hindu community, was celebrated with much enthusiasm and religious fervor at temples across the country Bangladesh. | 06-Oct-2019 |
We can do a deal if EU is willing, says | London, Oct 6 (TIWN) UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has claimed his Brexit proposals have picked up support in Parliament as he urged the European Union (EU) to compromise. | 06-Oct-2019 |
UN calls for end to Iraq protests | Baghdad, Oct 6 (TIWN) The UN has called for an end to the "senseless loss of life" in Iraq as the death toll from the anti-government protests has increased to 99 with nearly 4,000 people injured. | 06-Oct-2019 |
Trump won't destroy me, says Joe Biden | Washington, Oct 6 (TIWN) Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has said that US President Donald Trump "won't destroy him" or his family over the latter's call for an investigation against the former Vice President and his son. | 06-Oct-2019 |
Russia, Venezuela boost military ties | Caracas, Oct 6 (TIWN) Russia and Venezuela have boosted military ties in an apparent sign of Moscow's continued support for the South American nation amid a political crisis. | 06-Oct-2019 |
Modi, Hasina meet as India-B'desh ties p | New Delhi, Oct 5 (TIWN) Prime Minister Narendra Modi met visiting Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina here on Saturday as the two sides held talks to take the bilateral ties to the next higher level. | 05-Oct-2019 |
Iraq protests: Toll increases to 93, 4,0 | Baghdad, Oct 5 (TIWN) The death toll in anti-government protests across Iraq in the past five days has increased to 93, with nearly 4,000 others injured, the countrys High Commission for Human Rights said on Saturday. | 05-Oct-2019 |
Trump bars immigrants who can't pay for | Washington, Oct 5 (TIWN) US President Donald Trump has signed a proclamation that bars legal immigrants who have no health coverage or cannot prove that they can pay for healthcare costs within 30 days of their arrival in the country. | 05-Oct-2019 |
Imran warns PoK residents against crossi | Islamabad, Oct 5 (TIWN) Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Saturday warned the residents of Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir (PoK) against crossing the Line of Control "to provide humanitarian aid or support" to the Kashmiris. | 05-Oct-2019 |
Democrats expand impeachment scope deman | New York, Oct 5 (TIWN) Democrats have cast the net of impeachment inquiry wider with a demand to Vice President Mike Pence to provide documents relating to President Donald Trump's conversation with Ukraine' President Volodymyr Zelensky that they are investigating and his dealings with officials in Kiev. | 05-Oct-2019 |
Pak Army chief meets biz honchos, sets o | Islamabad, Oct 4 (TIWN) In a move that has set off speculation of a soft coup, the Pakistan Army chief Gen Qamar Bajwa called industry leaders for a meeting in Rawalpindi, the Army headquarters, to tackle the sliding economy, and according to reports, more such meetings are on the anvil. | 04-Oct-2019 |
HK introduces anti-mask law | Hong Kong, Oct 4 (TIWN) The government of Hong Kong's Chief Executive Carrie Lam on Friday introduced a ban on people wearing masks at public assemblies, a colonial-era emergency legislation that has not been used in more than half a century. | 04-Oct-2019 |
Not visiting Pak for corridor opening, c | New Delhi, Oct 4 (TIWN) Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Thursday ruled out a visit to Pakistan for the Kartarpur corridor opening, making it clear that he would be only leading the first all-party 'jatha' (religious group) to the Kartarpur Sahib Gurdwara to pay obeisance. | 04-Oct-2019 |
Pakistan SC to set up new bench for mino | Islamabad, Oct 4 (TIWN) Pakistan's Supreme Court has ordered setting up of a special bench to hear matters connected to fundamental rights of the country's minorities, reports said on Thursday. | 04-Oct-2019 |
3 astronauts return to Earth from ISS | Washington, Oct 4 (TIWN) Hazzaa Ali AlMansoori, the first astronaut from the United Arab Emirates (UAE), returned to Earth on Thursday from the International Space Station (ISS) alongside NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Soyuz commander Alexey Ovchinin of the Russian space agency Roscosmos. | 04-Oct-2019 |
Democrats warn Trump 'no fooling around' | New York, Oct 3 (TIWN) Demanding cooperation from the administration in collecting documents and evidence against US President Donald Trump, the Democrats have warned Trump that they were "not fooling around" with impeachment proceedings against him and he shot back with invectives calling their efforts "bull****". | 03-Oct-2019 |
Xi, Putin hail 70th year of diplomatic t | Beijing, Oct 2 (TIWN) Chinese President Xi Jinping and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Wednesday exchanged congratulatory messages on the 70th anniversary of the establishment of the two countries' diplomatic ties. | 02-Oct-2019 |
Gandhi figures on postage stamps of 100 | New Delhi, Oct 2 (TIWN) Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, the icon of peace, has been honoured by over 100 countries by issuing postage stamps. | 02-Oct-2019 |
Pakistan starts judicial probe into Hind | Larkana, Oct 2 (TIWN) A judicial probe has been launched into the death of Nimrita Kumari, a final year student of Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto Medical University, in the Sindh province of Pakistan. | 02-Oct-2019 |
US judge rules Harvard not discriminatin | New York, Oct 2 (TIWN) In a case that has echoes of the college admissions reservations issue in India, a federal judge has ruled against students of Indian and other Asian descent in a lawsuit alleging that Harvard University was discriminating against them in its admissions policy and favouring other | 02-Oct-2019 |
Gandhiji's ideals are our guiding light: | New Delhi, Oct 2 (TIWN) Mahatma Gandhi's commitment to peace, harmony and brotherhood remained unwavering, said Prime Minister Narendra Modi remembering the Father of the Nation on his sesquicentennial on Wednesday. | 02-Oct-2019 |