Archive Detail
| Title | Description | Posted Date |
|---|---|---|
| Russia's coronavirus cases near 400,000 | Moscow, May 30 (TIWN) The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Russia rose by 8,952 to the 396,575, the third highest in the world, in the past 24 hours, the anti-coronavirus crisis center said on Saturday. | 30-May-2020 |
| Pakistan resumes int'l flight operations | Islamabad, May 30 (TIWN) Pakistan has resumed its international flight operations after the government eased some of the restrictions imposed to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus, according to a notification issued by the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA). | 29-May-2020 |
| UN chief stresses women's role in peacek | United Nations, May 30 (TIWN) UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres stressed the important role of women in peacekeeping on the occasion of the International Day of UN Peacekeepers. | 29-May-2020 |
| Ex-officer charged with murder in Minnea | Washington, May 30 (TIWN) A former Minneapolis police officer has been arrested and charged with murder and manslaughter following the death of an unarmed black man in custody. | 29-May-2020 |
| Monkeys snatch blood samples of suspecte | New Delhi (CNN), May 30 (TIWN): A troop of monkeys snatched the blood samples of suspected coronavirus patients at a government hospital in the Meerut district of the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. | 29-May-2020 |
| Twitter targets Republicans, allows Chin | San Francisco, May 29 (TIWN) After issuing an executive order on social media, US President Donald Trump on Friday again accused Twitter of engaging in selective censorship, saying that the platform is "doing nothing about all of the lies & propaganda being put out by China." | 29-May-2020 |
| UK proposes rights for HK passport holde | London, May 29 (TIWN) The UK could offer British National (Overseas) passport holders in Hong Kong a path to UK citizenship if China does not suspend plans for the national security law in the city, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said here. | 29-May-2020 |
| 30% rise in daily COVID-19 deaths in Rus | Moscow, May 29 (TIWN) Russias coronavirus death toll rose by 232 to 4,374 in the past 24 hours, a 30 per cent increase, the anti-coronavirus crisis centre said on Friday. | 29-May-2020 |
| Russia Victory Day parade rehearsal to b | Moscow, May 29 (TIWN) Russias Defence Ministry has started preparing for the Victory Day parade in Moscow and the first rehearsal will take place on June 8, Commander-in-Chief of the Ground Forces General Oleg Salyukov said on Friday. | 29-May-2020 |
| Tokyo to ease more COVID-19 restrictions | Tokyo, May 29 (TIWN) Tokyo authorities announced on Friday that the Japanese capital would enter the second phase of a plan to gradually ease restrictions to contain the coronavirus from next week, as the number of cases has been decreasing over time. | 29-May-2020 |
| News Corp shuts dozens of newspapers in | Canberra, May 28 (TIWN) Rupert Murdoch's News Corp has decided to end publication of dozens of newspapers in Australia, and print edition of over 100 other regional and community publications as part of a major restructuring amid Covid-19 pandemic. | 28-May-2020 |
| B'desh won't extend COVID-19 shutdown | Dhaka, May 28 (TIWN) The Bangladesh government has decided not to extend the ongoing shutdown over the coronavirus pandemic, allowing offices to reopen on May 31, the media reported. | 28-May-2020 |
| Trump threatens Twitter with 'big action | Washington, May 28 (TIWN) US President Donald Trump on Wednesday threatened Twitter with "big action" for tagging two of his tweets on mail-in voting with a fact-checking warning label. | 28-May-2020 |
| Twitter adds fact-check labels to Trump' | San Francisco, May 28 (TIWN) Micro-blogging site Twitter has tagged two tweets of US President Donald Trump on mail-in voting with a fact-checking warning label. | 28-May-2020 |
| Corona patients facing higher rates of I | New York, May 28 (TIWN) Hospitalised COVID-19 patients in the US are enduring longer hospital stays and facing higher rates of intensive care unit (ICU) admission than patients in China, a new study reveals. | 28-May-2020 |
| Bangladesh Covid toll mounts to 544 | Dhaka, May 27 (TIWN) With 22 fresh deaths due to the pandemic , Bangladesh Covid-19 toll surged to 544, health authorities said on Wednesday. | 27-May-2020 |
| Russia to hold postponed Victory Day par | Moscow, May 27 (TIWN) Russian President Vladimir Putin has said the country's military parade to mark the 75th anniversary of the Soviet victory against the Nazis in World War II will be held on June 24. | 26-May-2020 |
| Planned national security law won't harm | Hong Kong, May 26 (TIWN) Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam on Tuesday reassured residents that China's planned national security law will not have negative consequences for the citys economy, pointing out that Western democracies have enacted similar laws without scaring investors away. | 26-May-2020 |
| WHO warns of COVID-19 'second peak' as l | Geneva, May 26 (TIWN): Countries could see a "second peak" of coronavirus cases during the first wave of the pandemic if lockdown restrictions were lifted too soon, the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned. | 26-May-2020 |
| China accuses US of spreading COVID-19 ' | Beijing, May 26 (TIWN) China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi has accused the US of spreading "conspiracies and lies" about the coronavirus pandemic, ratcheting up tensions between the two nations, it was reported. | 26-May-2020 |
| Seoul kindergarten student tests COVID-1 | Seoul, May 26 (TIWN) A kindergarten student in Seoul has tested positive for the novel coronavirus, the South Korean capital city's education office said on Monday. | 26-May-2020 |
| Trump could form panel to probe anticons | San Francisco, May 26 (TIWN) US President Donald Trump wants to form a panel that would examine complaints of anticonservative bias and censorship on social media platforms, said a media report. | 26-May-2020 |
| Japan says hospital conditions over COVI | Tokyo, May 25 (TIWN) Japanese authorities said Sunday that conditions in hospitals have eased, fueling the possibility that the state of emergency that has been in force since April 7 due to the coronavirus pandemic may be lifted soon. | 25-May-2020 |
| UK PM's aide 'made second lockdown trip' | London, May 25 (TIWN) Amid growing calls for him to resign for travelling during the COVID-19 restrictions, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson's chief aide Dominic Cummings was now facing fresh allegations that he breached lockdown rules, the media reported on Sunday. | 25-May-2020 |
| Prince William says parenthood brought m | London, May 24 (TIWN) The UK's Prince William has revealed that becoming a father brought back painful emotions he felt following his mother, Prince Diana's death when he was 15 years old, it was reported on Sunday. | 24-May-2020 |
| Khashoggi's fiancee rejects family's for | Istanbul, May 23 (TIWN) Murdered Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi's fiancee has said "no-one has the right to pardon his killers" after his son said the forgave them, the media reported. | 23-May-2020 |
| France will make UK arrivals self-isolat | Paris, May 23 (TIWN) France is set to make UK arrivals self-isolate in response to the British government's quarantine rules which will come into effect on June 8, the media reported. | 23-May-2020 |
| Trump says US not to shut down in case o | Washington, May 23 (TIWN) US President Donald Trump said on Thursday that the US would not close in the case of a second coronavirus wave. | 23-May-2020 |
| Queen Elizabeth II's b'day honours list | London, May 21 (TIWN) The publication of Queen Elizabeth II's Birthday Honours has been delayed until the autumn amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the UK government has announced. | 21-May-2020 |
| Took HCQ after valet tested Covid positi | New York, May 23 (TIWN): President Donald Trump says he began taking hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) "as a frontline defence" after his valet and Vice President Mike Pence's press secretary tested positive for COVID-19. | 23-May-2020 |
| 10 killed, 14 injured in twin attacks in | Kabul, May 20 (TIWN) At least 10 villagers were killed and 14 others wounded in two separate gun shootings in Afghanistan, authorities said on Wednesday. | 20-May-2020 |
| NZ PM's popularity shoots up over COVID- | Wellington, May 20 (TIWN) The popularity of New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has soared in the country following her management of the COVID-19 crisis, with months to go before the general elections. | 20-May-2020 |
| Taliban suicide blast kills 9 in Afghani | Kabul, May 20 (TIWN) At least nine people were killed and around 40 injured on Monday in a Taliban suicide attack near a security base in Afghanistan's Ghazni province, officials said. | 20-May-2020 |
| Thailand reopens shopping malls as lockd | Bangkok, May 20 (TIWN) Shopping malls reopened across Thailand on Sunday after a month as the country began easing COVID-19 restrictions following a steady decline in the number of daily cases. | 20-May-2020 |
| 2 Pak girls killed for 'honour' over lea | Islamabad, May 19 (TIWN) Two teenage girls were killed in the name of 'honour' allegedly by a family member in a village located on the border of Pakistan's North and South Waziristan tribal districts after a short mobile video of them with a young man surfaced on social media, police said. | 19-May-2020 |
| Trump fires State Department Inspector G | Washington, May 19 (TIWN) US President Donald Trump has fired the State Department's inspector general, Steve Linick, saying he no longer had his full confidence on the latter and that he would be removed in 30 days, the media reported on Saturday. | 19-May-2020 |
| Antibody found to block COVID-19 virus 1 | San Francisco, May 18 (TIWN) US-based Sorrento Therapeutics has announced that an antibody has demonstrated its ability to completely block SARS-CoV-2 infection of healthy cells in preclinical laboratory experiments. | 18-May-2020 |
| 42 million EU workers on paid leave amid | Brussels, May 17 (TIWN) Some 42 million European Union (EU) workers have been affected by temporary layoffs due to the coronavirus pandemic. | 17-May-2020 |
| NASA unveils 'Artemis Accords' for respo | Washington, May 16 (TIWN) As NASA plans to return humans to the Moon by 2024 under its Artemis programme, the US space agency has laid out certain principles for responsible space exploration that will guide all its international partners. | 16-May-2020 |
| Flight from Newark with 121 evacuees lan | Hyderabad, May 16 (TIWN) Another evacuation flight of Air India from the US with 121 passengers landed at the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport here early Saturday. | 16-May-2020 |
| We could cut off whole relationship: Tru | Washington, May 15 (TIWN) US President Donald Trump has said that he "could cut off the whole relationship" with China, in one of his strongest comments against Beijing in the wake of the Asian giant's handling of the coronavirus pandemic, the media reported. | 15-May-2020 |
| Russia reports over 10,000 new COVID-19 | Moscow, May 15 (TIWN) Russia has confirmed 10,598 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, raising its total tally to 262,843, the second highest in the world, according to the country's coronavirus response centre on Friday. | 15-May-2020 |
| B'desh detects 1st COVID-19 case among R | Dhaka, May 15 (TIWN) Bangladesh has confirmed the first coronavirus case among the Rohingya refugees after managing to keeping the crowded camps in the south of the country free from the disease for weeks. | 15-May-2020 |
| Vijay Mallya can now be extradited in 28 | New Delhi/London, May 15 (TIWN) Indian fugitive and former liquor baron Vijay Mallya on Thursday lost his appeal in the UK Supreme Court against his extradition to India, clearing a major roadblock for the Narendra Modi government to bring him back in the next 28 days. | 15-May-2020 |
| Pakistan set to resume train services | Islamabad, May 15 (TIWN) The Pakistan government has decided to resume train services and allow public transport vehicles to operate with strict standard operating procedures (SOPs) to prevent the further spread of the novel coronavirus, a media report said on Thursday. | 15-May-2020 |
| Restrictions on all-cargo flights at Bei | Beijing, May 14 (TIWN) China's civil aviation regulator has lifted restrictions on the operation of all-cargo flights at Beijing Capital International Airport and Beijing Daxing International Airport. | 14-May-2020 |
| COVID-19 lockdowns significantly impacti | London, May 14 (TIWN) Researchers have found that levels of two major air pollutants have been drastically reduced since lockdowns began in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, but a secondary pollutant - ground-level ozone - has increased in China. | 14-May-2020 |
| UN chief condemns attack on hospital in | United Nations, May 14 (TIWN) United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has condemned the attack on a hospital in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, which killed and wounded dozens of people. | 14-May-2020 |
| Man charged after BBC reporter racially | London, May 13 (TIWN) A man was charged in the UK on Tuesday after a BBC reporter was subjected to racist abuse as she prepared for a live broadcast. | 13-May-2020 |
| 15 killed after suicide blast hits Afgha | Kabul, May 13 (TIWN) At least 15 people were killed and 56 others injured after a suicide blast hit a funeral in Afghanistan's Nangarhar province on Tuesday. | 13-May-2020 |