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Cold bites as Syria battles fuel shortag | Damascus, Dec 11 (TIWN) As plummeting temperatures hit Damascus with a shroud of winter fog, people in the Syrian capital have been battling fuel shortage and other adversities. | 11-Dec-2022 |
Mayors for increased direct financing to | Montreal, Dec 11 (TIWN) As the largest biodiversity conference in a decade kicked off in Montreal, mayors from 15 cities around the world called for increased direct financing to allow cities to implement ambitious greening and ecosystem restoration projects. | 11-Dec-2022 |
International nature conservation agency | Montreal, Canada, Dec 11 (TIWN) The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) announced here on Saturday that it has added another 16 protected areas to its Green List. | 11-Dec-2022 |
Stockholm hosts Nobel Prize award ceremo | Stockholm, Dec 11 (TIWN) The Nobel Prize award ceremony was held in the Swedish capital. | 11-Dec-2022 |
UK sanctions Pak cleric known for forced | New Delhi, Dec 10 (TIWN) A controversial cleric from Pakistan's Sindh province was placed on the British governments sanctions list, making Pakistan one of 11 countries where rights violators will be punished. | 10-Dec-2022 |
Canada sets goal to conserve 30% land, w | Montreal, Dec 10 (TIWN): The federal government has set the goal of conserving 30 per cent of Canada's land and water by 2030, because science shows that nature needs help in order to reverse the decline in biodiversity, better fight climate change, and maintain a strong, sustainable economy. | 10-Dec-2022 |
White House, Congress remain underwater | Washington, Dec 10 (TIWN) The White House and Congress remained underwater in their approval ratings, according to a new Gallup survey. | 10-Dec-2022 |
Sikh woman in Canada stabbed to death | Toronto, Dec 10 (TIWN) A 40 year-old Sikh woman died in Canada after being stabbed multiple times at her home in Surrey, British Columbia, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) said. | 10-Dec-2022 |
Peru's new President hints at early poll | Lima, Dec 10 (TIWN) Peru's new President Dina Boluarte acknowledged the possibility of holding the next elections earlier than scheduled amid protests. | 10-Dec-2022 |
Many marine species may go extinct befor | Montreal, Dec 9 (TIWN): More than 90 per cent of marine species are undescribed and many may go extinct due to human activity before they are discovered -- the loss of unique, potentially valuable genetic resources resulting in unpredictable effects on global ecosystems essential to human food supplies and climate regulation. | 09-Dec-2022 |
Israel PM Netanyahu asks President to ex | Jerusalem, Dec 9 (TIWN) Former Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has asked President Isaac Herzog for an extension of the mandate to form a new coalition government, his Likud party said in a statement. | 09-Dec-2022 |
UN Security Council hails signing of pol | United Nations, Dec 9 (TIWN) The UN Security Council has welcomed the signing of a framework deal in Sudan to end political stalemate, and called on key political forces in the country to join the political process. | 09-Dec-2022 |
M23 kills 131 civilians in eastern Congo | United Nations, Dec 9 (TIWN) In eastern Congo last week, M23 rebels killed at least 131 civilians, including 17 women and 12 children, a UN spokesman said. | 09-Dec-2022 |
Threat of nuke war rising, says Putin | Moscow, Dec 8 (TIWN) Russian President Vladimir Putin has said the threat of a nuclear war was rising, but insisted Moscow had not "gone mad" and would not use its nuclear weapons first. | 08-Dec-2022 |
Aus govt to overhaul environmental laws | Canberra, Dec 8 (TIWN) The Australian government on Thursday announced its plan to fix the country's broken environmental protection laws. | 08-Dec-2022 |
Hungarian govt to impose 95% extra profi | Budapest, Dec 8 (TIWN) The Hungarian government increased the special tax paid by local leading gas and oil company MOL on its profit made from the price difference between Russian Urals crude oil and Brent oil from 40 to 95 per cent, according to official sources. | 08-Dec-2022 |
UK univs luring Indian students with 'br | London, Dec 8 (TIWN) Universities in the UK are paying education agents that recruit Indian students to lure them with an offer, which allows them to bring along their families to the country, a media report said. | 08-Dec-2022 |
Sitharaman, Harris among Forbes' 100 mos | New Delhi, Dec 7 : Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, Biocon Executive Chairperson Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw and Nykaa founder Falguni Nayar are among six Indians who have made it to the Forbes' annual list of The World's 100 Most Powerful Women. | 07-Dec-2022 |
Over 15 mn kids in US infected with Covi | Washington, Dec 7 (TIWN) Over 15 million children in the US have tested positive for Covid-19 since the onset of the pandemic in early 2020, according to the latest report by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and the Children's Hospital Association. | 07-Dec-2022 |
Philippine inflation rate accelerates to | Manila, Dec 7 (TIWN) The year-on-year inflation rate in the Philippines accelerated to 8 per cent in November from 7.7 per cent in October, the highest since 2008, official figures revealed on Tuesday. | 07-Dec-2022 |
Highway in California closed due to rock | San Francisco, Dec 7 (TIWN) California's Highway 1, also known as the Pacific Coast Highway, was closed after multiple rockslides occurred along the classic road trip route. | 07-Dec-2022 |
Framework deal signed in Sudan to end po | Khartoum, Dec 7 (TIWN) Sudan's military and civilian leaders have signed a political framework agreement to end the political impasse and institute a two-year transitional authority. | 07-Dec-2022 |
Pak President cautions Imran not to atta | Islamabad, Dec 6 (TIWN) Former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan was reportedly cautioned after the change of command in the army by President Arif Alvi to strictly direct his leaders and social media team not to attack the new Chief of Army Staff (COAS) and the military. | 06-Dec-2022 |
Montreal COP15: Crucial for 196 nations | New Delhi, Dec 6 (TIWN): As delegates of 196 nations gather over the next two weeks for the UN biodiversity summit, referred to as COP15, beginning in Montreal, Canada, to agree, amongst other things, on a new biodiversity framework -- a crucial moment as the world needs set of goals and targets that will guide action on nature through 2030 with over a million species of animals and plants face extinction because of human activity. | 06-Dec-2022 |
S.Korean Prez ready to issue executive o | Seoul, Dec 4 (TIWN) South Korea President Yoon Suk-yeol instructed officials on Sunday to prepare an executive order for striking truckers in the fuel and steel industries to return to work amid logistics disruptions caused by the collective action. | 04-Dec-2022 |
Moon's chief of staff banned from overse | Seoul, Dec 4 (TIWN) Prosecutors have imposed an overseas travel ban on a former Presidential Chief of Staff for alleged involvement in a hiring scandal, sources said on Sunday. | 04-Dec-2022 |
Bangladesh records highest monthly expor | Dhaka, Dec 4 (TIWN) Bangladesh exported goods worth more than $5 billion in November, the highest ever in a month, as demand for ready-made garment items continued to soar, according to the latest official data. | 04-Dec-2022 |
Musk 'Twitter Files' implicates Indian-o | New Delhi, Dec 3 (TIWN) The 'Twitter Files' revealed by Elon Musk has implicated Vijaya Gadde, the Indian-origin former head of legal, policy and trust at the company, in suppressing Hunter Biden's laptop story on the platform, while giving a clean chit to former CEO Jack Dorsey. | 03-Dec-2022 |
Popular Indo-Canadian TikToker dies 'une | Toronto, Dec 3 (TIWN) Indo-Canadian TikToker Megha Thakur, known for spreading messages of body positivity and self-confidence, passed away "suddenly" and "unexpectedly" last week, an Instagram post by her parents said. | 03-Dec-2022 |
UK Covid cases again rise above 1 millio | London, Dec 3 (TIWN) The number of Covid-19 cases in the UK has again increased above one million, in a worrying sign of a new winter wave, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS). | 03-Dec-2022 |
Blinken designates Pakistan, China, Saud | New York, Dec 3 (TIWN) US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has designated Pakistan, China, Russia and Saudi Arabia as religious freedom violators labelling them as "Countries of Particular Concern" (CPC). | 03-Dec-2022 |
EU plans to criminalise violation of san | Brussels, Dec 3 (TIWN) The European Commission has proposed making the circumvention of the European Union's (EU) sanctions against Russia a criminal offence. | 03-Dec-2022 |
Afghans marrying off young daughters to | Kabul, Dec 2 (TIWN): Since Kabul fell to the Taliban in August 2021, there has been a dramatic increase in early marriages of Afghan girls — a trend activists and human rights campaigners attribute to parents’ belief that securing a spouse for their girls is better than seeing them forced to marry members of the Taliban, a media report said. | 02-Dec-2022 |
Police remand for PIO accused of murder | Singapore, Dec 2 (TIWN) An Indian-origin man charged with the murder of his business partner will be remanded at Singapore's Central Police Division for a week after his discharge from hospital, a court heard on Friday. | 02-Dec-2022 |
As largest democracy with 2,500-year leg | United Nations, Dec 2 (TIWN) As the world's largest democracy with a legacy going back millenniums, nobody needs to preach to India, New Delhi's Permanent Representative to the UN Ruchira Kamboj said. | 02-Dec-2022 |
French GDP growth slows to 0.2% in Q3 | Paris, Dec 1 (TIWN) France's gross domestic product (GDP) growth in the third quarter (Q3) slowed down to 0.2 per cent in volume terms following a 0.5 per cent rebound in Q2, the country's National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies (INSEE) said. | 01-Dec-2022 |
5 Palestinians killed in West Bank amid | Ramallah, Dec 1 (TIWN) Five Palestinians were killed in clashes with Israeli soldiers in four separate incidents in the West Bank, prompting condemnation and calls for stopping the rising violence. | 01-Dec-2022 |
IAEA to boost presence at all nuke plant | Vienna, Dec 1 (TIWN) The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) will strengthen its presence at all the nuclear power plants in Ukraine, the Vienna-based UN watchdog's Director-General Rafael Grossi said. | 01-Dec-2022 |
US far-right group members found guilty | Washington, Dec 1 (TIWN) Stewart Rhodes, founder of the US far-right group Oath Keepers, and his associate Kelly Meggs were found guilty by a jury of seditious conspiracy and other charges for crimes related to the Capitol Hill riot on January 6, 2021. | 01-Dec-2022 |
UN envoy warns of dangerous escalation i | United Nations, Dec 1 (TIWN) UN Special Envoy for Syria Geir Pedersen has warned of a dangerous escalation in the war-torn Arab nation. | 01-Dec-2022 |
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