Archive Detail
| Title | Description | Posted Date |
|---|---|---|
| Aus state rolls out 4-bin recycling syst | Melbourne, Sep 30 (TIWN) Australia's state of Victoria announced a new four-bin recycling system to help households easily sort waste and recycling and reduce landfill. | 30-Sep-2022 |
| Myanmar plane attacked, 1 injured | Yangon, Sep 30 (TIWN) A passenger plane of the state-owned Myanmar National Airlines was attacked during landing near Loikaw airport on Friday, leaving one injured, according to local authorities. | 30-Sep-2022 |
| US imposes sanctions on Indian company o | New York, Sep 30 (TIWN) In what is likely the first action against an Indian company for allegedly dealing in Iranian petroleum products, the US Treasury Department has imposed sanctions on Mumbai-based Tibalaji Petrochem Private Limited. | 30-Sep-2022 |
| S.Korean Prez, Kamala Harris share conce | Seoul, Sep 29 (TIWN) South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol and visiting US Vice President Kamala Harris on Thursday shared their concern about North Korea's nuclear and missile programs. | 29-Sep-2022 |
| PM Modi's Putin remarks consistent with | Washington, Sep 29 (TIWN): Prime Minister Narendra Modi's remarks during his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Samarkand were not a change in India's position on the conflict in Ukraine, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has said as he underlined that New Delhi has been urging for early cessation of hostilities between the two countries. | 28-Sep-2022 |
| Germany's public debt rises again | Berlin, Sep 29 (TIWN) Germany's public debt increased by 25 billion euros ($24 billion) in the second quarter (Q2) of 2022 to 2.34 trillion euros, the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) has said. | 28-Sep-2022 |
| 1 killed in hospital shooting in US' Ark | Houston, Sep 29 (TIWN) At least one person was killed following a shooting at a hospital in the suburbs of Little Rock, capital of the US' Arkansas, authorities said. | 28-Sep-2022 |
| Ian makes landfall in Florida as Categor | Washington, Sep 29 (TIWN) "Extremely dangerous" Ian made landfall as a Category 4 hurricane in southwestern Florida, according to the National Hurricane Center (NHC). | 28-Sep-2022 |
| 4.9mn tourists visit Egypt in first 6 mo | Cairo, Sep 28 (TIWN) Some 4.9 million tourists visited Egypt in the first six months of 2022, an increase of 85.4 per cent compared to 2.6 million travellers in the same period of 2021, it was announced. | 28-Sep-2022 |
| Shehbaz Sharif says audio leaks put Paki | Islamabad, Sep 28 (TIWN) Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said on Tuesday that 'audio leaks' have marred the country's standing in the international community as no one would feel free to speak with the Prime Minister out of privacy fears, media reports said. | 28-Sep-2022 |
| India 'matters more': Emerges as voice o | United Nations, Sep 28 (TIWN): India emerged as the voice of the South, speaking up on issues hitting them the hardest, during the high-level meeting of the UN General Assembly, reclaiming the leadership role but in a changed global context with a focus on development and cooperation, rather than shrill partisanship, and at the same time trying to be a bridge between blocs in the polarised world. | 28-Sep-2022 |
| Ukraine to adopt laws for membership tal | Kiev, Sep 28 (TIWN) Ukraine plans to adopt the legislations needed to launch the membership talks with the European Union(EU) by mid-November, a top official said here. | 28-Sep-2022 |
| EU buys additional vaccine doses against | Brussels, Sep 28 (TIWN) The European Commission said it had secured over 10,000 tecovirimat vaccines against monkeypox, despite the declining number of cases in the European Union (EU). | 28-Sep-2022 |
| Erdogan vows to protect Turkey's rights | Ankara, Sep 27 (TIWN) Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan vowed to "use all means" to protect Ankara's rights and interests against Greece. | 27-Sep-2022 |
| Demonstrations in Iran pose biggest thre | London, Sep 25 (TIWN): Demonstrations have spread to most of Iran’s 31 provinces and almost all urban centres, pitting anti-government demonstrators against regime forces, including the military, and posing the most serious test to the hardline state’s authority in more than 13 years, local media reported. | 25-Sep-2022 |
| Ishaq Dar to return as Pak Finance Minis | London, Sep 25 (TIWN): PML-N leader Ishaq Dar will assume charge as the Pakistan finance minister on Tuesday and the current Finance Minister Miftah Ismail will continue to remain part of the government, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif decided during an important meeting here, local media reported. | 25-Sep-2022 |
| NKorea fires one short-range ballistic m | Seoul, Sep 25 (TIWN): The Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said it detected the launch from an area in or around Taechon, North Pyongan Province, at 653 a.m., and that it flew some 600 kilometers at an apogee of around 60 km at a top speed of Mach 5. | 25-Sep-2022 |
| SKorea's new COVID-19 cases under 30,000 | Seoul, Sep 25 (TIWN) South Korea's new Covid cases remained below 30,000 for the third straight day on Sunday in a sign that the virus wave is slowing down at a steady pace. | 25-Sep-2022 |
| Iraqi soldier, 2 IS militants killed in | Baghdad, Sep 25 (TIWN) A soldier and two Islamic State (IS) militants were killed in clashes north of the Iraqi capital Baghdad, the Iraqi military said. | 25-Sep-2022 |
| UN gets funds needed to salvage derelict | United Nations, Sep 22 (TIWN) The UN now has all the funds needed to start an emergency operation to prevent a massive oil spill from the derelict Safer oil tanker in the Red Sea off Yemen. | 22-Sep-2022 |
| Hindutva ideology in India has fuelled v | New York, Sep 22 (TIWN) Speaking at an event in New York on the sidelines of the ongoing UN General Assembly, Pakistan's Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari claimed that the "Hindutva ideology being promoted in India fuelled violence against its Muslim minority in the country". | 22-Sep-2022 |
| Fire at British Petroleum refinery in US | Washington, Sep 22 (TIWN) Fire at a British Petroleum (BP) refinery in the US state of Ohio led to the deaths of two staff members, the company said. | 22-Sep-2022 |
| Israeli PM, Jordanian King discuss regio | Jerusalem, Sep 22 (TIWN) Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid and King Abdullah II of Jordan met on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York and discussed the tensions in the Middle East region. | 22-Sep-2022 |
| US traffic deaths in first half of 2022 | Washington, Sep 22 (TIWN) Traffic deaths in the US increased 0.5 per cent to 20,175 in the first half of 2022, the highest number killed in the period since 2006, a US official estimate has said. | 22-Sep-2022 |
| Over 300 French companies urge govt acti | Paris, Sep 21 (TIWN) Over 300 French companies have alerted the country's government to the negative effects of the surging energy prices, Minister Delegate for Industry Roland Lescure has said here. | 21-Sep-2022 |
| UK's Queen Elizabeth II laid to rest aft | London, Sep 19 (TIWN): Britain's Queen Elizabeth II on Monday afternoon began her last journey a 25 mile stretch westward ? from Westminster Abbey in central London to Windsor Castle in the county of Berkshire, where she spent much of her time in recent years. | 19-Sep-2022 |
| Japanese cabinet's approval rate dives i | Tokyo, Sep 19 (TIWN) The Japanese Cabinet's public approval rating plummeted to 29 per cent, dropping below 30 per cent into a "danger zone", a new poll has revealed. | 19-Sep-2022 |
| Biden claims 'pandemic is over' as WHO a | Washington, Sep 19 (TIWN) US President Joe Biden has claimed that the Covid-19 pandemic is over, as millions suffer from long Covid and several countries still bear the brunt of the global health crisis. | 19-Sep-2022 |
| Large-scale disorder breaks out in Leice | London, Sep 19 (TIWN) Large-scale disorder broke out in Leicester amid tensions involving mainly young men from sections of the Muslim and Hindu communities, with police and community leaders calling for calm, the media reported. | 19-Sep-2022 |
| Residents of New Zealand's biggest city | Wellington, Sep 19 (TIWN) One third of residents in New Zealand's biggest city of Auckland are considering leaving the city in the next five years due to increasingly high cost of living, traffic congestion, and decreasing sense of safety, a new survey revealed on Monday. | 19-Sep-2022 |
| China, Russia to hold meetings on securi | BEIJING, Sep 18 (TIWN): Russian Security Council secretary Nikolai Patrushev will hold security consultations and meetings during a two-day visit to China starting Sunday, China's foreign ministry said. | 18-Sep-2022 |
| Over 1,500 killed, 12,000 injured in Pak | Islamabad, Sep 18 (TIWN) The total death toll in Pakistan from this season's monsoon rains and floods since mid-June has risen to around 1,545, along with 12,860 injured, the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) said. | 18-Sep-2022 |
| Pakistan caught in Imran and floods mael | Islamabad, Sep 18 (TIWN): Five months ago, with the tacit approval of the army, nearly all Opposition parties in Pakistan had unseated Prime Minister Imran Khan through a no-confidence motion in parliament. But many of them did not bargain for the political tsunami by the playboy - cricketer - turned politician when the country is in the grip of a natural calamity induced partly by climate change and partly by 75-years of bad governance. | 18-Sep-2022 |
| Bangladesh eyes 100 billion USD export e | Dhaka, Sep 18 (TIWN) Bangladesh has embarked on a high growth path with an aim to double its export earnings in just four years, country's Commerce Minister Tipu Munshi said. | 18-Sep-2022 |
| 27 killed, 20 injured in China bus accid | Beijing, Sep 18 (TIWN) Twenty-seven people were killed and 20 others injured after a bus turned on its side in China's Guizhou Province early Sunday morning. | 18-Sep-2022 |
| 5 Syrian soldiers killed in Israeli miss | Damascus, Sep 17 (TIWN) Five soldiers were killed during an Israeli missile attack on the international airport in Damascus and military sites south of the capital, the military said on Saturday. | 17-Sep-2022 |
| Germany takes control of major oil refin | Berlin, Sep 17 (TIWN) Germany has taken control of a major domestic refinery owned by Russian oil company Rosneft, the Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (BMWK) said. | 16-Sep-2022 |
| Two police officers stabbed in London | London, Sep 16 (TIWN) Two police officers were stabbed in central London on Friday and the incident is not being treated as terror related, said the Metropolitan Police (Met). | 16-Sep-2022 |
| Typhoon Muifa makes 4th landfall in Chin | Beijing, Sep 16 (TIWN) Typhoon Muifa, the 12th of this season, made a fourth landfall in China on Friday, bringing with it strong winds and rain. | 16-Sep-2022 |
| US researchers develop method to identif | Washington, Sep 16 (TIWN) US researchers have developed a method to evaluate how future mutations to SARS-CoV-2 can affect recognition by antibodies used in rapid antigen tests, according to the National Institutes of Health (NIH). | 16-Sep-2022 |
| Home prices in Israel record sharpest ri | Tel Aviv, Sep 16 (TIWN) Home prices in Israel in the June-July period registered a year-on-year increase of 17.9 per cent, the highest in 12 years, the country's Central Bureau of Statistics reported. | 16-Sep-2022 |
| Shehbaz to meet Xi on SCO sidelines | Samarkand, Sep 16 (TIWN) Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif will meet Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday in Uzbekistans historic city of Samakarkand on the sidelines of the ongoing Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Summit. | 16-Sep-2022 |
| Shehbaz to meet Xi on SCO sidelines | Samarkand, Sep 16 (TIWN) Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif will meet Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday in Uzbekistans historic city of Samakarkand on the sidelines of the ongoing Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Summit. | 16-Sep-2022 |
| Republican Senator introduces legislatio | Washington, Sep 14 (TIWN) Republican Senator Lindsey Graham has introduced a legislation that would ban abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy across the country. | 14-Sep-2022 |
| Thai court to decide PM's term limit on | Bangkok, Sep 14 (TIWN) Thailand's Constitutional Court announced on Wednesday that it is set to rule on the case of Prayut Chan-o-cha's term limit as Prime Minister on September 30. | 14-Sep-2022 |
| Wildfires burns over 3,200 hectares of l | Paris, Sep 14 (TIWN) Wildfires have burned over 3,200 hectares of land in France's southwestern department of Gironde, forcing 840 people to be evacuated, the local government announced in a statement. | 14-Sep-2022 |
| Nepal, India discuss issues of bilateral | Kathmandu, Sep 14 (TIWN) Nepal and India discussed matters pertaining to bilateral and mutual interests during the Foreign Secretary-level talks in New Delhi. | 14-Sep-2022 |
| Lebanon Humanitarian Fund allocates $8mn | Beirut, Sep 14 (TIWN) The Lebanon Humanitarian Fund (LHF) has allocated $8 million to help vulnerable families in the country hit by an unprecedented financial crisis, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), operator of the fund, said. | 14-Sep-2022 |
| Russian war machine not close to living | Kiev, Sep 13 (TIWN) From September 7-11, Russian President Vladimir Putin's military forces saw at least 338 pieces of important military hardware, from fighter jets to tanks to trucks, destroyed, damaged or captured, according to numbers from the open source intelligence website Oryx. | 13-Sep-2022 |
| China raises alert level as typhoon Muif | Beijing, Sep 13 (TIWN) China's national observatory on Tuesday upgraded the typhoon alert to the second highest as Muifa, the 12th of this year, is expected to make landfall in Zhejiang province on Wednesday. | 13-Sep-2022 |