Archive Detail
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Quad alliance a force for good | New Delhi, May 30 (TIWN): The Quad alliance has emerged as a ‘force for good’ and has been successful in coordinating actions in the areas of vaccine delivery, climate action, supply chain resilience , disaster response and economic cooperation despite the adverse circumstances created by the Covid-19, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said. | 30-May-2022 |
D.C. residents pay tribute to Uvalde sch | Washington, May 30 (TIWN) Residents of Washington, D.C. paid tribute to the 22 victims of last week's mass shooting at the Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. | 30-May-2022 |
3 children dead in Philippine house fire | Manila, May 29 (TIWN) Three children were killed when a fire ripped through a house in the Philippine capital region on Sunday, the Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP) said. | 29-May-2022 |
Search on for sunken vessel's crew membe | Manila, May 29 (TIWN) Rescuers from the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) on Sunday continued with a search operation for eight missing crew members of a fishing vessel that sank off Palawan province after colliding with a cargo vessel. | 29-May-2022 |
WHO to begin Covid vax drive in Afghanis | Kabul, May 28 (TIWN) The World Health Organization (WHO) announced that it will begin its Covid-19 vaccination campaign in Afghanistan from June. | 28-May-2022 |
Pfizer says Covid shot 80% effective in | Washington, May 24 (TIWN) Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech have said that preliminary clinical data showed their three-dose Covid-19 vaccine regimen was 80 per cent effective for children aged between 6 months to 5-years-old at preventing illness during the Omicron wave. | 24-May-2022 |
6 killed, 5 wounded in IS attacks in Ira | Baghdad, May 24 (TIWN) A total of six people were killed and five wounded in attacks by militants of the Islamic States (IS) group in Iraq's provinces of Kirkuk and Diyala, a provincial official and a police source have said. | 23-May-2022 |
Pakistan mulls reduced working days in a | Islamabad, May 23 (TIWN) Amid rising oil consumption and import bill owing to higher international prices, the Pakistan government is mulling the possibility of fuel conservation through reduced working days a week, hoping to save an estimated annual foreign exchange of up to $2.7 billion. | 23-May-2022 |
Experts warn of unusual monkeypox outbre | Canberra, May 23 (TIWN) As Australia records its second case of monkeypox, local authorities and experts are readying for what they called a "highly unusual outbreak" of the disease, which in recent weeks has been spreading across the globe. | 23-May-2022 |
3 injured as blast hits Afghanistan's no | Mazar-I-Sharif (Afghanistan), May 20 (TIWN) At least three people sustained injuries due to a blast that rocked Mazar-i-Sharif city, the capital of northern Balkh province, an official said. | 20-May-2022 |
NATO chief vows to settle Turkey's conce | Copenhagen, May 20 (TIWN) Jens Stoltenberg, NATO Secretary General, has pledged to address Turkey's concerns on Finland's and Sweden's applications to join the military alliance. | 19-May-2022 |
US eases sanctions on Cuba | Washington, May 17 (TIWN) US President Joe Biden's administration has announced that it was lifting some sanctions on Cuba, making it easier for families separated between the two countries to reunite and creating a more conducive business environment for Cuban entrepreneurs. | 17-May-2022 |
'Russia would respond to expansion of NA | Moscow, May 17 (TIWN) Russian President Vladimir Putin has said Moscow would respond if the NATO would deploy military infrastructure on the territories of Finland or Sweden. | 16-May-2022 |
Canada to develop first climate adaptati | Ottawa, May 17 (TIWN) Canadian Environment and Climate Change Minister, Steven Guilbeault has launched a public consultation to develop the country's first National Adaptation Strategy. | 16-May-2022 |
Mexican Prez hopes to reach agreement wi | Mexico City, May 17 (TIWN) Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has said he hopes to reach an agreement with the US to hold the upcoming Summit of the Americas without the exclusion of any regional country. | 16-May-2022 |
Ukrainian, EU officials discuss Kiev's E | Kiev, May 17 (TIWN) Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba and European Union (EU) Commissioner for Neighborhood and Enlargement, Oliver Varhelyi discussed Ukraine's European integration aspirations, the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry said. | 16-May-2022 |
2 killed, 3 injured in US Houston flea m | Houston, May 16 (TIWN) Two people were killed and three others critically injured in a shooting at a flea market in Houston, the largest city of the US state Texas, authorities said. | 15-May-2022 |
Voting continues in Philippines amid vio | Manila, May 9 (TIWN) Voting in the Philippines to elect a new President some 18,000 other officials continued on Monday, despite the eruption of violence that killed three people and injured nine others. | 09-May-2022 |
Turkey plans to send 1 million Syrian re | Ankara, May 8 (TIWN) Turkey is making plans to send 1 million Syrian refugees home as public hostility to their presence in the country is escalating. | 08-May-2022 |