Archive Detail
| Title | Description | Posted Date |
|---|---|---|
| Indian Ocean should not be 'playground' | Colombo, Oct 28 (TIWN) Sri Lanka reiterated that the Indian Ocean should not be an area of conflict or the "playground" for world military powers. | 28-Oct-2022 |
| Palestinian Prez to attend Arab League s | RAMALLAH, Oct. 28 (Xinhua) -- Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Thursday announced that he would attend the 31st session of the Arab League summit scheduled to be held in Algiers, Algeria, on Nov. 1 for two days. | 28-Oct-2022 |
| Britons slam Trevor Noah's 'racist backl | London, Oct 28 (TIWN) Britons have slammed US talk show host and comedian Trevor Noah, who took a hilarious dig at them saying, "racists" were offended by UK's first Prime Minister of colour Rishi Sunak. | 28-Oct-2022 |
| Iran calls for expanding trade ties with | Tehran, Oct 28 (TIWN) Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf has said that Iran's expansion of economic and trade ties with Belarus can help minimise the impact of sanctions imposed by the US and West on both countries. | 28-Oct-2022 |
| EU to provide Albania with 80 mn euros t | Tirana, Oct 28 (TIWN) The European Union (EU) will provide 80 million euros ($79.7 million) in grants to Albania to tackle energy crisis, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said here. | 28-Oct-2022 |
| Post-Covid recovery still years away for | London, Oct 27 (TIWN) Travel demand at London's Heathrow Airport, the biggest in the UK, will not return to pre-pandemic levels for several years, "except at peak times", due to the worsening global economic outlook, the Russia-Ukraine war and the impact of Covid-19. | 27-Oct-2022 |
| Swedish Navy conducts inspections at Nor | Stockholm, Oct 27 (TIWN) The Swedish Navy said that it had deployed two vessels to conduct further investigations into the Nord Stream pipeline leaks in the Baltic Sea. | 27-Oct-2022 |
| Japan's NRA to resume Tsuruga nuclear sa | Tokyo, Oct 27 (TIWN) Japan's Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) has said that it will resume its safety assessment of a reactor at the Tsuruga nuclear power plant in central Japan after a suspension over rewritten geological data. | 27-Oct-2022 |
| Italy's new cabinet wins final confidenc | Rome, Oct 27 (TIWN) The new Italian cabinet led by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni won a confidence vote in the upper house of Italy's parliament by a comfortable margin. | 27-Oct-2022 |
| Macron promises solution to high inflati | Paris, Oct 27 (TIWN) French President Emmanuel Macron has pledged to "never leave the French without a solution" in the face of high inflation and strikes. | 27-Oct-2022 |
| Indians, Khalistani supporters clash in | Ottawa, Oct 26 (TIWN) Police in the Canadian city of Mississauga said that between 400 and 500 people clashed on Diwali night, during which one side waved the Indian Tricolour while some others held Khalistani banners, media reports said. | 26-Oct-2022 |
| Russia recruiting Afghan commandos train | London, Oct 26 (TIWN) Afghan commandos who had been trained by Allied forces to fight the Taliban are now being recruited by Russia to fight in Ukraine, a media report said. | 26-Oct-2022 |
| Ukraine needs over $3bn to go through wi | Kiev, Oct 26 (TIWN) Ukraine needs 4 billion euros (about $3.97 billion) to go through the winter cold season, said Minister for the Development of Communities and Territories Oleksiy Chernyshov. | 26-Oct-2022 |
| Row over Braverman's reappointment as UK | London, Oct 26 (TIWN) UK's new Prime Minister Rishi Sunak kicked off a row by reappointing Indian-origin Suella Braverman as Home Secretary, just days after she quit over a technical breach of government rules. | 26-Oct-2022 |
| Biden's job approval back down to 40%: P | Washington, Oct 26 (TIWN): A latest poll has revealed that US President Joe Biden's job approval rating has slipped back to 40 per cent. | 26-Oct-2022 |
| Texas Governor celebrates Diwali with In | Austin, Oct 24 (TIWN) Texas Governor Greg Abbott celebrated Diwali with prominent members of the Indian-American community at his official residence in Austin, the state capital. | 24-Oct-2022 |
| Slovenia set for 2nd round of presidenti | Ljubljana, Oct 24 (TIWN) Slovenia is slated to hold the second round of presidential election on November 13 after none of the candidates secured a majority in the first round. | 24-Oct-2022 |
| Pak journo shot dead in Kenya, says wife | Islamabad, Oct 24 (TIWN) Pakistani journalist Arshad Sharif has been shot dead in Kenya, his wife confirmed on Monday. | 24-Oct-2022 |
| Category 3 hurricane Roslyn batters Mexi | Mexico City, Oct 24 (TIWN) Roslyn, a powerful category 3 hurricane, made landfall in Mexico's Pacific coast, bringing with it heavy rain and strong winds. | 24-Oct-2022 |
| Ecuador issues yellow alert for Cotopaxi | Quito, Oct 24 (TIWN) The government of Ecuador has declared a yellow alert (moderate risk) in areas near the Cotopaxi volcano amid increasing seismic activity. | 24-Oct-2022 |
| Explosion targets military ambulance in | Aden, Oct 23 (TIWN): An explosion struck an ambulance carrying a medic team of the southern pro-government Yemeni forces in southern Abyan province, killing five medics on board. | 23-Oct-2022 |
| Iran says US 'expressed its hastiness' t | Tehran, Oct 23 (TIWN) Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian has said his country has received a message from the US expressing American "hastiness to reach the nuclear deal with Iran". | 23-Oct-2022 |
| Floods to harm Australian GDP growth for | Canberra, Oct 21 (TIWN) Australia's Treasurer Jim Chalmers on Friday said the ongoing floods in the southeast region will harm the country's projected economic growth. | 21-Oct-2022 |
| Cuba calls on US to lift trade embargo | Havana, Oct 21 (TIWN) Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez called on the US government to lift its decades-long trade embargo, or blockade, against the country. | 21-Oct-2022 |
| G20 members undermining climate efforts: | New Delhi, Oct 21 (TIWN): A new report on Thursday showed that even before the energy crisis brought about by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, G20 government support to produce fossil fuels reached new heights at $64 bn in 2021, despite worsening impacts of the climate crisis. | 21-Oct-2022 |
| France spends $7.3bn on massive future i | Paris, Oct 21 (TIWN) France has invested 7.5 billion euros ($7.3 billion) on major projects since the country unveiled the 'France 2030' investment roadmap last year to support ecological and economic transitions. | 21-Oct-2022 |
| Terror attacks in Pak jump by 51% after | Islamabad, Oct 21 (TIWN) Pakistan witnessed a record 51 per cent increase in the number of terrorist attacks in a single year after the Taliban came to power in Afghanistan in August 2021, according to new data. | 21-Oct-2022 |
| Authorities call for continued Covid mea | Brussels, Oct 20 (TIWN) A fresh autumn wave of Covid-19 infections has started in many European countries, and experts are calling for strengthened vaccination efforts and tighter health measures as cases are set to keep rising this winter. | 20-Oct-2022 |
| Japanese PM orders probe into controvers | Tokyo, Oct 17 (TIWN) Amid intense pressure from the opposition and diminishing support for his Cabinet, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Monday ordered an investigation into the controversial religious sect, Unification Church. | 17-Oct-2022 |
| Death toll from floods in Pakistan reach | Islamabad, Oct 17 (TIWN) The death toll from this season's catastrophic monsoon rain and floods since mid-June has increased to 1,719 along with 12,867 injured people, the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) has said. | 17-Oct-2022 |
| Guterres calls for renewing commitment t | United Nations, Oct 17 (TIWN): UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday called for efforts to renew the commitment to a better world for all in his message for the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, which falls on Oct. 17 annually. | 17-Oct-2022 |
| Thousands of houses may be inundated as | Melbourne, Oct 17 (TIWN) Thousands of houses may be inundated, and tens of thousands of residences might be either inundated or isolated as flood continues to wreak havoc in Australia's state of Victoria. | 17-Oct-2022 |
| 12 killed in mass shooting in bar in Mex | Mexico City, Oct 16 (TIWN) At least 12 people were killed and three others injured after unidentified gunmen opened fire in a bar in Mexico's Irapuato city in Guanajuato state, local media reported. | 16-Oct-2022 |
| Jaishankar thanks diaspora for shaping I | Cairo, Oct 16 (TIWN) External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar thanked the Indian business community in Egypt for advancing national interests and shaping the country's image in the region. | 16-Oct-2022 |
| Xi warns China will never 'renounce the | Beijing, Oct 16 (TIWN) During his opening speech Sunday morning at the start of the Party Congress, Chinese leader Xi Jinping vowed to speed up efforts to build the People's Liberation Army (PLA) into a "world-class military", local media reported. | 16-Oct-2022 |
| Pakistan at critical moment of recovery | Islamabad, Oct 16 (TIWN) Pakistan currently stands at a critical moment as it is embarking on a road to recovery in the aftermath of climate change-induced devastating floods, Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said on the occasion of World Food Day. | 16-Oct-2022 |
| S.Korean Prez orders quick resumption of | Seoul, Oct 16 (TIWN) South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol on Sunday instructed officials to make efforts to ensure Kakao and Naver can quickly resume their services disrupted by a fire in their data centres. | 16-Oct-2022 |
| Ukraine seeks to expand product range fo | KIev, Oct 14 (TIWN) Ukraine has considered expanding the range of goods for exports via its seaports and stands ready to discuss the issue with Turkey, state media reported. | 14-Oct-2022 |
| Pak govt will hang Imran upside down if | Islamabad, Oct 14 (TIWN) The Pakistan government will hang former Prime Minister Imran Khan upside down if he launches his long march in Islamabad, warned Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah Khan. | 14-Oct-2022 |
| Man abuses Pakistan Finance Minister Ish | Islamabad, Oct 14 (TIWN) A man hurled abuses at Pakistan Finance Minister Ishaq Dar at the Washington airport, the media reported. | 14-Oct-2022 |
| S'pore tightens monetary policy for 4th | Singapore, Oct 14 (TIWN): The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) on Friday tightened its policy stand by re-centering the mid-point of the Singapore Dollar Nominal Effective Exchange Rate (S$NEER) policy band up to its prevailing level, leaving the slope and width of the policy band unchanged. | 14-Oct-2022 |
| Bomb threat on Moscow-Delhi flight, sear | New Delhi, Oct 14 (TIWN) Situation at Indira Gandhi International Airport became chaotic after the Delhi Police received a PCR call about a bomb in a flight that was coming from Moscow. It was an international call that was made to the police. | 14-Oct-2022 |
| Liz Truss battles to survive | London, Oct 13 (TIWN) UK Prime Minister Liz Truss is battling to survive as ministers refused to rule out an humiliating U-turn on tax cuts to appease increasingly mutinous Tories, media reports said on Thursday. | 13-Oct-2022 |
| Biden rules out talks with Putin | Washington, Oct 13 (TIWN) US President Joe Biden ruled out talks with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin at the upcoming G20 summit at Indonesia, saying "there is no rationale to meet with him now". | 13-Oct-2022 |
| Bangladesh inflation soars to 10-year hi | Dhaka, Oct 12 (TIWN) Inflation in Bangladesh accelerated to 9.52 per cent in August, the highest in 10 years, mainly driven by higher food prices, according to official data. | 12-Oct-2022 |
| Thailand looks to tourism to drive econo | Bangkok, Oct 12 (TIWN) Thailand has pinned hope on the tourism sector to boost its economic recovery amid growing concerns about a slowing global economy and its impact on the country's exports. | 12-Oct-2022 |
| 14 states elected into UN Human Rights C | United Nations, Oct 12 (TIWN) The UN General Assembly has elected 14 states into the Human Rights Council to succeed outgoing members. | 12-Oct-2022 |
| IMF downgrades Poland's growth forecast | Warsaw, Oct 12 (TIWN) The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has lowered Poland's growth forecasts by 0.7 and 1.5 percentage points, respectively, for this year and 2023. | 12-Oct-2022 |
| N.Korea's UN envoy slams US for joint mi | Seoul, Oct 12 (TIWN) North Korean Ambassador to the UN Kim Song on Wednesday lashed out at the US, arguing it is aggravating tensions on the Korean Peninsula. | 12-Oct-2022 |
| Russia would consider Putin-Biden meetin | Moscow, Oct 11 (TIWN) Moscow would not turn down a meeting between President Vladimir Putin and his US counterpart, Joe Biden, at the G20 meeting next month, as per Russia's Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, media reports said. | 11-Oct-2022 |