Archive Detail
| Title | Description | Posted Date |
|---|---|---|
| Namibia President Geingob wins second te | Windhoek, Dec 1 (TIWN) Namibia's incumbent President Hage Geingob has won a second term, securing 56.3 per cent of the vote in the presidential election, the Electoral Commission of Namibia (ECN) said. | 30-Nov-2019 |
| Twitter shuts down Ilhan Omar's account | Washington, Nov 30 (TIWN) In an apparent warning to US President Donald Trump, Twitter has shut down Republican Danielle Stella's account after she tweeted twice about hanging her Democrat opponent Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minnesota). | 30-Nov-2019 |
| Electro-optical device for faster comput | London, Nov 30 (TIWN) A first-of-a-kind electro-optical device that provides solution to faster and more energy-efficient computing memories and processors has been developed by scientists in Harish Bhaskaran's Advanced Nanoscale Engineering research group at the University of Oxford. | 30-Nov-2019 |
| Conservative Party uses BBC footage to p | London, Nov 29 (TIWN) The BBC has asked the Conservative Party to remove a Facebook advertisement that uses edited footage of its news reporters and presenters saying sentences like "Pointless delay to Brexit" and "another Brexit delay". | 29-Nov-2019 |
| 2-week long HK varsity siege to end | Hong Kong, Nov 29 (TIWN) Hong Kong police are set to end the nearly two-week-long siege of the city's Polytechnic University (PolyU) on Friday noon after they completed an operation removing dangerous items, including Molotov cocktails, bows, and chemicals stowed there. | 29-Nov-2019 |
| Ex-Japanese Premier Nakasone dies at 101 | Tokyo, Nov 29 (TIWN) Former Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone died at the age of 101, sources close to the matter said on Friday. | 29-Nov-2019 |
| Albania ends quake rescue operations | Tirana, Nov 29 (TIWN) The Albanian government on Friday declared an end to the search and rescue phase of the country's post-earthquake operations. | 29-Nov-2019 |
| Trump in Af on Thanksgiving, says Taliba | Kabul, Nov 29 (TIWN) US President Donald Trump paid a surprise visit to Afghanistan to spend Thanksgiving for the first time in that country with the American troops present there and assured those deployed that the Taliban have been engaged in talks. | 29-Nov-2019 |
| Trump approves bill supporting HK protes | Hong Kong, Nov 28 (TIWN) US President Donald Trump has signed two bills that supports human rights and pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong, drawing angry objections from Beijing's Foreign Ministry. | 28-Nov-2019 |
| South Korea's top court orders retrial f | Seoul, Nov 28 (TIWN) South Korea's top court on Thursday ordered a retrial for former president Park Geun-hye for illegally accepting state funds after a lower court acquitted her of bribery and embezzlement. | 28-Nov-2019 |
| Animals could help humans monitor oceans | London, Nov 28 (TIWN) Sharks, penguins, turtles and other seagoing species could help humans monitor the oceans by transmitting oceanographic information from electronic tags, a new study suggests. | 28-Nov-2019 |
| Hong Kong police enter university after | Hong Kong, Nov 28 (TIWN) Hong Kong Police on Thursday entered the Polytechnic University campus, which had been under siege for 11 days of clashes with hundreds of students, to check that there was no one left inside and remove any dangerous items. | 28-Nov-2019 |
| Trump terms impeachment probe as 'witch | Miami, Nov 28 (TIWN) US President Donald Trump has slammed the Democrats and denounced the impeachment inquiry into him as a "witch hunt" during an election campaign rally in Sunrise, Florida. | 28-Nov-2019 |
| Koala rescued from Australian bushfire d | Sydney, Nov 27 (TIWN) A koala which drew attention after being rescued from a wildfire in Australia has died, after failing to recover from his burns. | 27-Nov-2019 |
| S.Korea fires warning shots at N.Korean | Seoul, Nov 27 (TIWN) South Korea's military guided back a North Korean merchant vessel, after the ship crossed the inter-Korean maritime border southward due to an engine problem, the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) of South Korea said on Wednesday. | 27-Nov-2019 |
| Pak SC begins hearing in Bajwa's tenure | Islamabad, Nov 27 (TIWN) Pakistan's Supreme Court on Wednesday began hearing in a case pertaining to the extension/reappointment of tenure of Army chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa, who is due to retire on November 29. | 27-Nov-2019 |
| Bajwa's extension stayed, Imran bursts o | Islamabad, Nov 27 (TIWN) Soon after the Pakistan Supreme Court On Tuesday suspended the notification extending the term of Army chief, General Qamar Javed Bajwa, Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan lashed out at Law Minister Farogh Naseem during a cabinet meeting. | 27-Nov-2019 |
| S.Korea lodges protest against N.Korea's | Seoul, Nov 26 (TIWN) South Korea on Tuesday lodged a formal protest with North Korea over its recent artillery drill on an island near the maritime border between the two estranged neighbors. | 26-Nov-2019 |
| HK govt to stick to 'one country, two sy | Hong Kong, Nov 26 (TIWN) Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam on Tuesday said that the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) government will stick to the "one country, two systems" principle and safeguard Hong Kong residents' human rights and freedom protected under the Basic Law. | 26-Nov-2019 |
| Pakistan challenges India's UNSC candida | Islamabad, Nov 26 (TIWN) Pakistan has challenged India's qualifications for the UN Security Council's permanent and non-permanent membership. | 26-Nov-2019 |
| US, China hold talks to resolve trade co | Beijing, Nov 26 (TIWN) US and Chinese trade representatives held talks on resolving key issues in the ongoing trade conflict between the two countries, the China's Trade Ministry said on Tuesday. | 26-Nov-2019 |
| 'Imran hid details of his 23 bank accoun | Lahore, Nov 25 (TIWN) Former interior minister Ahsan Iqbal on Sunday alleged that Prime Minister Imran Khan had hidden 23 bank accounts from the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) and millions of dollars as well. | 25-Nov-2019 |
| Hong Kong polls: Pro-democracy groups ma | Hong Kong, Nov 25 (TIWN) According to early results, Hong Kong's pro-democracy movement has made unprecedented gains in the district council elections, media reports said on Monday. In the figures put out till now, pro-democracy candidates have won 278 seats as against pro-Beijing candidates 42. | 24-Nov-2019 |
| India, Afghanistan exchanges treaty over | New Delhi, Nov 25 (TIWN) India and Afghanistan on Sunday exchanged the instruments of ratification of their bilateral extradition treaty. | 24-Nov-2019 |
| Massive turnout in Hong Kong district po | Hong Kong, Nov 24 (TIWN) Voters on Sunday flocked to polling booths in large numbers for the district council elections, in which a record participation is expected after five months of protests. | 24-Nov-2019 |
| Pak EC asked to probe PTI foreign fundin | Islamabad, Nov 25 (TIWN) Dissident founding member of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), Akbar S Babar, who filed the foreign funding case against his party, has filed another application demanding the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) to investigate into the matter itself instead of the scrutiny committee constituted for this purpose. | 25-Nov-2019 |
| Rohingya case matter of 'high national i | Yangon, Nov 24 (TIWN) Myanmar has said the case, filed by Gambia against the country at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) concerning the alleged violation of the provisions of the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, is a matter of "high national interest". | 24-Nov-2019 |
| Mexico asks US not to mix trade deal wit | Mexico City, Nov 24 (TIWN) Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has asked US legislators not to entangle internal political issues with the ratification of a renewed North American Free Trade Agreement. | 24-Nov-2019 |
| Released US records reveal Pompeo-Giulia | Washington, Nov 24 (TIWN) The US State Department has released records relating to the Trump administration's dealings with Ukraine. | 24-Nov-2019 |
| NASA space data can reduce disaster resp | Washington, Nov 23 (TIWN) Emergency responders could cut costs and save time by using near-real-time satellite data along with other decision-making tools after a flooding disaster, says a new study. | 23-Nov-2019 |
| G20 foreign ministers commit to WTO refo | Nagoya (Japan), Nov 23 (TIWN) G20 foreign ministers have pledged to push for reforms in the World Trade Organization (WTO) during a meeting Saturday in the Japanese city of Nagoya. | 23-Nov-2019 |
| S.Korea to continue intelligence-sharing | Seoul, Nov 23 (TIWN) South Korea says it is to continue a military intelligence-sharing pact with Japan that had been threatened by a long-running dispute. | 23-Nov-2019 |
| AI to determine if immunotherapy is work | New York, Nov 23 (TIWN) Scientists who have pioneered the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to predict whether chemotherapy will be successful, can now determine which lung-cancer patients will benefit from expensive immunotherapy. | 23-Nov-2019 |
| China revises its 2018 GDP up 2.1% | Beijing, Nov 22 (TIWN) China on Friday raised its GDP for 2018 to 91.93 trillion yuan ($13.08 trillion), 2.1 per cent more than the previously stated figure, following the latest revision of the calculations by China's National Bureau of Statistics (NBS). | 22-Nov-2019 |
| Trump invites Af President to US after t | Kabul, Nov 22 (TIWN) US President Donald Trump has invited his Afghan counterpart Mohammed Ashraf Ghani to visit the US which was accepted by the latter, said a statement of the Afghan Presidential Palace on Friday. | 22-Nov-2019 |
| Doctor saves man's life by sucking urine | New York, Nov 22 (TIWN) A doctor has been hailed for saving an elderly man's's life by sucking urine from his bladder during mid-flight. | 22-Nov-2019 |
| Trump thanks Pak PM for helping in hosta | Islamabad, Nov 22 (TIWN) US President Donald Trump has thanked the Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan for facilitating the release of two Western hostages by the Taliban in Afghanistan. | 22-Nov-2019 |
| UK election: Tories plan stamp duty hike | London, Nov 22 (TIWN) Foreigners buying properties in England will be forced to pay three per cent more in stamp duty than the UK residents, if the Conservatives win the general election. | 22-Nov-2019 |
| Pakistan students announce countrywide p | Islamabad, Nov 21 (TIWN) In the midst of fee hikes, harassment scandals and arrests from campuses, students in Pakistan will come together for a Student Solidarity March on November 29 to demand better education and a fair academic environment, according to Pakistani media reports. | 21-Nov-2019 |
| Israel strikes Iranian targets in Syria | Jerusalem, Nov 20 (TIWN) Responding to the rockets fired by an Iranian unit, Israel on Wednesday attacked "dozens" of sites belonging to the Iranian Quds Forces and the Syrian army in "wide-scale" air strikes near Damascus and in southwest Syria, the Israeli military said. | 20-Nov-2019 |
| US State Dept official resigns over infl | Washington, Nov 21 (TIWN) A senior US State Department official, who had reportedly inflated her resume, has resigned from her position. | 21-Nov-2019 |
| Ghani, Pompeo discuss Haqqani militants' | Kabul, Nov 19 (TIWN) Afghanistan President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani held separate telephone talks with the US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and National Security Adviser Robert O'Brien and exchanged views on the release of Haqqani leaders, Presidential Palace said in a statement on Tuesday. | 19-Nov-2019 |
| Democrats respond to Obama's 2020 electi | Washington, Nov 18 (TIWN) Democratic candidates for the 2020 presidential election have reacted to a warning by former US President Barack Obama against moving too far left in politics. | 18-Nov-2019 |
| Schools to remain closed as HK braces fo | Hong Kong, Nov 17 (TIWN) Hong Kong's Education Bureau has announced that all schools will continue to be suspended on Monday out of safety concerns, as protesters and police clashed on Sunday outside Polytechnic University. | 17-Nov-2019 |
| 7 killed in Bangladesh building collapse | Dhaka, Nov 17 (TIWN) At least seven people were killed and 32 others injured on Sunday after gas line explosion caused a building's collapse in Bangladesh's seaport city of Chattogram, a police official said. | 17-Nov-2019 |
| Pak's MQM founder seeks asylum, financia | London, Nov 17 (TIWN) Altaf Hussain, the founder of Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) who has been charged with a terrorism offence, has requested Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi for help by giving asylum and financial help to him and his companions, a media report said on Sunday. | 17-Nov-2019 |
| Around 80% turnout in Sri Lanka polls | Colombo, Nov 17 (TIWN) Around 80 per cent of eligible Sri Lankans voted on Saturday for the presidential election, the country's National Election Commission stated. In Tamil-majority Northern Province, the polling percentage was recorded around 70% with 66 per cent voter turnout in Jaffna district. Former war-affected districts Kilinochchi polled 73 per cent, Mullaitivu 76 per cent, Vavuniya 75 and Mannar 71 per cent. | 16-Nov-2019 |
| Court instructs to submit written undert | Lahore, Nov 17 (TIWN) The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Saturday instructed former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his brother Shehbaz Sharif to submit a written undertaking in regards to the former's travel abroad for medical treatment. | 17-Nov-2019 |
| 241 IS members surrender in Afghanistan | JALALABAD, Afghanistan, Nov. 16 (Xinhua) -- A total of 241 loyalists of the Islamic State (IS) group including men, women and children have surrendered to the government in eastern Afghanistan's Nangarhar province, said an army statement released here on Saturday. | 16-Nov-2019 |
| Meghan Markle still waiting for her UK c | London, Nov 16 (TIWN) Duchess of Sussex Meghan Markle was still waiting to be granted a British citizenship despite applying for it two years ago and being married to Prince Harry for 18 months, a media report said on Saturday. | 16-Nov-2019 |