Archive Detail
| Title | Description | Posted Date |
|---|---|---|
| Pakistan adds 194 new Covid cases, 2 mor | Islamabad, March 30 (TIWN) Pakistan recorded 194 new Covid cases over the past 24 hours, the National Command and Operation Center (NCOC) said on Wednesday. | 30-Mar-2022 |
| As Taliban ban girls from secondary scho | Kabul, March 30 (TIWN) With girls banned from returning to secondary schools, the World Bank has suspended four projects worth $600 million in Afghanistan, the BBC reported on Wednesday. | 30-Mar-2022 |
| Myanmar to resume issuing e-visas from A | Yangon, March 30 (TIWN) Myanmar will accept the applications of business e-visas starting Friday, the Ministry of Immigration and Population said in a statement. | 30-Mar-2022 |
| Russia's pull back pledge designed to mi | Kyiv/London, March 30 (TIWN) The General Staff of Ukraine's Armed Forces says the Russian withdrawal pledge is designed to mislead, BBC reported. | 30-Mar-2022 |
| Egyptian president vows support for effo | Cairo, March 30 (TIWN) Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi has expressed Egypt's "unwavering support" for Libya to hold presidential and parliamentary elections, said the Egyptian presidency. | 30-Mar-2022 |
| Sri Lanka to provide festival allowance | Colombo, March 29 (TIWN) The Sri Lankan government has approved a proposal to pay an allowance of 5,000 LKR ($17) to low-income families for two months in view of the festive season. | 29-Mar-2022 |
| B'desh urges UK Parliament to recognise | London, March 28 (TIWN) Saida Muna Tasneem, Bangladesh's High Commissioner in London, has urged the UK Parliament to table and pass a motion recognising one of the worst genocides in history by the Pakistani forces in 1971, Asianlite reported. | 28-Mar-2022 |
| No humanitarian corridors on Monday over | Kiev, March 28 (TIWN) Ukraine's Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said there will be no humanitarian corridors on Monday due to intelligence warnings over Russian "provocations" on the evacuation routes. | 28-Mar-2022 |
| Philippines, US begin large-scale joint | Manila, March 28 (TIWN) The Philippines and the US on Monday began their large-scale annual joint military drills in the Southeast Asian country. | 28-Mar-2022 |
| Israeli PM tests Covid positive | Tel Aviv, March 28 (TIWN) Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has tested positive for Covid-19, his office announced on Monday in a statement. | 28-Mar-2022 |
| Alert level raised for Philippines' Taal | Manila, March 26 (TIWN) Authorities in the Philippines on Saturday raised the alert level for Taal volcano near Manila due to "increasing unrest". | 26-Mar-2022 |
| Trump card has nothing to do with army: | Islamabad, March 26 (TIWN) Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has said that his much-discussed "trump card" has nothing to do with the army, The News reported. | 26-Mar-2022 |
| US SC Justice Clarence Thomas discharged | Washington, March 26 (TIWN) US Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has discharged after he was admitted a week ago for "flu-like symptoms". | 26-Mar-2022 |
| Combat capabilities of Ukrainian forces | Moscow, March 26 (TIWN) Russia says it will focus its invasion of Ukraine on "liberating" the east, signalling a possible shift in its strategy, the BBC reported. | 26-Mar-2022 |
| Biden again calls Putin 'war criminal' | Warsaw, March 26 (TIWN) US President Joe Biden again called his Russian counterpart a "war criminal" due to the Moscow's continued invasion of Kiev. | 26-Mar-2022 |
| Russia is preparing to attack Poland: En | Warsaw, March 25 (TIWN) Aggression by Russia against Poland or another European Union (EU) country is possible in the near future, said Andrii Deshchytsia, the Ambassador of Kiev in Warsaw. | 25-Mar-2022 |
| All Russian gold from foreign exchange r | Moscow, March 25 (TIWN) The Central Bank of Russia stated that all Russian gold from the national gold and foreign exchange reserves is located on the territory of the country. | 25-Mar-2022 |
| Philippines to enforce pre-pandemic entr | Manila, March 25 (TIWN) The Philippines will revert to pre-pandemic entry rules for fully vaccinated foreign nationals from visa-required countries starting on April 1, a government spokesperson said on Friday. | 25-Mar-2022 |
| 886 civilians killed, wounded or kidnapp | United Nations, March 25 (TIWN) At least 886 civilians were killed, injured or missing in Mali in the second half of last year, a UN agency said in a statement. | 25-Mar-2022 |
| Risk of a coup against Putin growing eve | London, March 24 (TIWN) The risk of a coup by the Federal Security Service (FSB) against Russian President Vladimir Putin is growing every week as the war in Ukraine continues, a whistleblower at the heart of Russian intelligence has said, Times UK reported. | 24-Mar-2022 |
| Ukraine claims Russia is preparing chemi | Kiev, March 24 (TIWN) The Centre for Counteracting Disinformation of the National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine has warned of possible chemical attacks being prepared by the Russian forces. | 24-Mar-2022 |
| UK sanctions Russian Foreign Minister La | London, March 24 (TIWN) Britain has sanctioned the stepdaughter of Russias Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov as part of a new raft of sanctions on a string of Russian "oligarchs, businesses and hired thugs", Daily Mail reported. | 24-Mar-2022 |
| UK sanctions Wagner Group known as Putin | London, March 24 (TIWN) The UK has announced it will be sanctioning the Wagner Group, BBC reported. | 24-Mar-2022 |
| Petition demanding Switzerland to expel | London, March 23 (TIWN) A petition demanding that Switzerland expel Vladimir Putin's rumoured lover out of their country has hit more than 63,000 signatures, Daily Mail reported. | 23-Mar-2022 |
| Russian Deputy PM predicts collapse in o | Moscow, March 23 (TIWN) Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak on Wednesday said that without Russian hydrocarbons, the oil and gas market would collapse. | 23-Mar-2022 |
| S. Korea approves MSD's oral Covid pill | Seoul, March 23 (TIWN) South Korea's drug safety agency on Wednesday granted emergency authorisation of multinational pharmaceutical company MSD's oral drug to treat Covid, making it the second such pill to be used in the country. | 23-Mar-2022 |
| New York City plans to lift school maski | New York, March 23 (TIWN) New York City Mayor Eric Adams on Tuesday said the mask mandate for children under five years of age in schools and day-care facilities would be removed on April 4 if current low levels of risk sustain. | 23-Mar-2022 |
| 1 killed, dozens injured after tornadoes | Houston, March 23 (TIWN) At least one person was killed and over two dozens were injured when tornados hit large areas of south central US states Texas and Oklahoma, authorities said. | 23-Mar-2022 |
| US reports nearly 270k child Covid cases | Washington, March 22 (TIWN) Nearly 270,000 child Covid-19 cases have been reported in the US in the past one month, according to the report pby the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and the Children's Hospital Association. | 22-Mar-2022 |
| Putin weighing up use of chemical weapon | Washington, March 22 (TIWN) Russias false accusation that Ukraine has biological and chemical weapons is a "clear sign" that a desperate President Vladimir Putin is considering using them himself, US President Joe Biden said. | 22-Mar-2022 |
| Biden says US must lead 'new world order | Moscow, March 22 (TIWN) US President Joe Biden has raised eyebrows after he claimed a "new world order" would soon be established and that it was up to the US to lead it. | 22-Mar-2022 |
| Putin wants to conquer not only Ukraine | Kiev, March 22 (TIWN) Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky believes that his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin may deliberately impose unrealistic demands on Kiev because he wants to conquer not only Ukraine but also the Baltic states. | 22-Mar-2022 |
| 'If required, US Fed will go for more ag | Washington, March 22 (TIWN) US Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said that the central bank will, if required, move "more aggressively" to raise federal funds rate by more than 25 basis points at its policy meetings in an effort to curb inflation. | 22-Mar-2022 |
| Plane with 133 people on board crashes i | Beijing, March 21 (TIWN) A China Eastern flight, carrying 132 or 133 (doubt prevails over the exact number) people on board, crashed on Monday in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, according to emergency officials. | 21-Mar-2022 |
| Iran's supreme leader, Prez laud nationa | Tehran, March 21 (TIWN) Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and President Ebrahim Raisi have praised Iranians for their resistance against US sanctions, saying the people managed to "defeat Washington's maximum pressure campaign". | 21-Mar-2022 |
| 'Russia to open humanitarian corridors f | Moscow, Mar 21 (TIWN): Humanitarian corridors from Ukraine's Mariupol will be opened from 10 a.m. Moscow time (0700 GMT) on Monday, Mikhail Mizintsev, head of the Russian National Defense Control Center, said Sunday. | 21-Mar-2022 |
| Russia, Ukraine make progress in ceasefi | Ankara, March 21 (TIWN) Russia and Ukraine have made progress on the "critical" articles of a ceasefire agreement being negotiated, but some issues still require decisions by their leaders, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu has said. | 21-Mar-2022 |
| Failure of talks with Putin would mean a | Kiev, March 21 (TIWN) As Moscow has continued its invasion of Kiev, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that he is ready for negotiations with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, but warned that if the talks fail, it "would mean that this is a third World War". | 21-Mar-2022 |
| Pak opposition threatens sit-in inside p | Islamabad, Mar 20 (TIWN): The political matrix in Pakistan continues to twist and turn in favour and against the government of Prime Minister Imran Khan, who is faced with a formidable opposition alliance, which has also taken support of many breakaway party members of the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), the number of which continues to creep up, to pile up pressure on him. | 20-Mar-2022 |
| Over 40% new Covid cases globally in are | Beijing, March 20 (TIWN): China is facing mounting pressure to guard against imported infections as new confirmed Covid-19 cases have rebounded globally in the past week with more than 40 per cent of cases appearing in areas surrounding China, according to China's National Health Commission (NHC) at a press conference, Global Times reported. | 20-Mar-2022 |
| Putin is trapped in a closed world of hi | London, March 20 (TIWN) Russian President Vladimir Putin is trapped in a closed world of his own making, Western spies believe and that worries themd. | 20-Mar-2022 |
| Teachers protest in Budapest for higher | Budapest, March 20 (TIWN) Trade unions and civilians organised a large demonstration at the Kossuth square in front of Parliament in Budapest, the capital of Hungary, demanding higher wages and the right to strike. | 20-Mar-2022 |
| 1 killed, 20 wounded in shooting at US c | Washington, March 20 (TIWN) A shooting outside a car show in the US state of Arkansas has killed at least one person and wounded 20 other, including children, local media reported. | 20-Mar-2022 |
| Four US soldiers killed in plane crash i | Copenhagen, March 19 (TIWN) All four crew members of a US Marine Corps aircraft, which crashed in northern Norway on Friday night, were killed, the Norwegian Armed Forces confirmed on Saturday. | 19-Mar-2022 |
| If Ukraine doesn't agree with Russia now | Moscow, March 19 (TIWN) President of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, has said that if Ukraine does not agree with Russia now, it will eventually sign an act of surrender. | 19-Mar-2022 |
| Peace negotiations may take up to severa | Kiev, March 19 (TIWN) Mykhailo Podoliak, Advisor to the President of Ukraine, said that peace negotiations with Russia may take at least "several weeks," despite signs that Moscow's position is becoming more "adequate." | 19-Mar-2022 |
| Taliban welcomes extension of UN Afghan | Kabul, March 19 (TIWN) The Taliban-led government in Afghanistan on Saturday welcomed the extension of UN mission in the war-torn nation for another year. | 19-Mar-2022 |
| Twitter blocks senior Russian diplomat a | United Nations, March 19 (TIWN) Dmitry Polyanskiy, Russia's First Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN, announced that has been blocked by Twitter. | 19-Mar-2022 |
| Germany approves procurement of Covid ja | Berlin, March 17 (TIWN) The German government has approved contracts worth 2.86 billion euros ($3.15 billion) for the procurement of Covid-19 vaccines until 2029. | 17-Mar-2022 |
| Ukraine war: A look into major drug make | Washington, March 16 (TIWN) A slew of drugmakers, including from the US, France, Germany, Switzerland, and the UK have halted exports of non-essential medicines to Russia, in the wake of its invasion into Ukraine, while continuing supply of critical medicines. | 16-Mar-2022 |