Archive Detail
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US-Taliban discuss peace deal in new tal | Doha, Jan 18 (TIWN) The Taliban and the US have resumed their talks that are expected to continue for "several days" in the Qatari capital of Doha for finalizing an arrangement to sign a possible Afghanistan peace deal, the militant group said on Friday. | 18-Jan-2020 |
US sanctions made Iran stronger, says Ro | Tehran, Jan 16 (TIWN) Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said here on Thursday that the US sanctions against Tehran have made the Islamic Republic even "stronger". | 16-Jan-2020 |
Stroke patients more likely to suffer he | Toronto, Jan 17 (TIWN) Both women and men are significantly more likely to have a heart attack or another major cardiovascular event within thirty days of having a stroke, according to a new study. | 17-Jan-2020 |
'European nations succumbing to US threa | Tehran, Jan 17 (TIWN) Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Thursday said that three European nations were succumbing to tariff threats from the US in raising a dispute mechanism in a landmark multilateral agreement on Tehran's nuclear programme. | 17-Jan-2020 |
Musharraf moves SC against high treason | Islamabad, Jan 16 (TIWN) Pakistan's former President Pervez Musharraf on Thursday submitted an appeal in the Supreme Court against a special court's verdict that found him guilty of high treason and handed him a death sentence. | 16-Jan-2020 |
Prince Harry on 1st royal duty since tal | London, Jan 16 (TIWN) Prince Harry will on Thursday carry out his first public engagement since the emergency talks with the Queen regarding the Sussexes' future following their announcement to step back as full-time royals. | 16-Jan-2020 |
Transparency urged for Cambodian oppn le | Phnom Penh, Jan 16 (TIWN) More than 80 Cambodian civil society groups on Thursday have urged the Phnom Penh Municipal Court to broadcast live the treason trial of opposition figure Kem Sokha after hearings had begun a day before amid heavy criticism around transparency. | 16-Jan-2020 |
Iran arrests person who filmed plane dow | Tehran, Jan 15 (TIWN) Iran said it has arrested the person who filmed the footage showing a Ukrainian passenger plane being shot down by a missile. | 15-Jan-2020 |
Sudanese gov't forces retake security bu | Khartoum, Jan 15 (TIWN) Chairman of Sudan's Sovereign Council Abdel Fattah al-Burhan on Wednesday said that the government forces have retaken all buildings of the General Intelligence Service (GIS), which were seized on Tuesday by a rebellious security force. | 15-Jan-2020 |
China launches new remote-sensing satell | Taiyuan, Jan 15 (TIWN) China sent a new optical remote-sensing satellite for commercial use into planned orbit from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Centre in north China's Shanxi Province on Wednesday morning. | 15-Jan-2020 |
Rare deep sea dolphins wash up on Aussie | Sydney, Jan 15 (TIWN) Even as Australia is battling the bushfires across the country, two rare deep sea dolphins washed up on an Australian beach in separate incidents over the past few weeks, leaving marine scientists baffled at the discovery. | 15-Jan-2020 |
Bangladeshi court upholds former ministe | Dhaka, Jan 14 (TIWN) Bangladesh's highest court on Tuesday rejected the appeal from a former minister who was sentenced to death for committing crimes against humanity in 1971. | 14-Jan-2020 |
Extreme weather in Pakistan kills 70 | Islamabad, Jan 14 (TIWN) At least 70 people were killed in snowfall and rain-related incidents in Pakistan over the last three days, while the number of injured was estimated to be 29, the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) said on Tuesday. | 14-Jan-2020 |
Indian-origin MP makes it to 2nd round o | London, Jan 14 (TIWN) Lisa Nandy, the Indian-origin British MP, and four others have made it to the second round of the Labour leadership race to succeed incumbent party chief Jeremy Corbyn. | 14-Jan-2020 |
Thai King orders changes in royal motorc | Bangkok, Jan 14 (TIWN) The Thai government on Monday announced that King Maha Vajiralongkorn has directed the police to change security protocols to avoid huge traffic jams that are formed whenever members of the royal family travel through the capital in motorcades. | 14-Jan-2020 |
UK royals gather for talks over Harry-Me | London, Jan 14 (TIWN) The UK royals, led by Queen Elizabeth II, will gather on Monday at the Monarch's Sandringham Estate for talks over the futures of Prince Harry and his wife Meghan Markle over their shock announcement to step down as senior royals. | 14-Jan-2020 |
19 dead as heavy snow, rain hits Afghani | Kabul, Jan 13 (TIWN) At least 19 people were killed and 16 others injured in the past 24 hours due to heavy snowfall and flash floods in the south and west of Afghanistan, an official said on Monday. | 13-Jan-2020 |
Nepal to include yoga in school curricul | Kathmandu, Jan 13 (TIWN) The Nepal government is set to make yoga education compulsory for school children by including it in their curriculum, it was reported. | 13-Jan-2020 |
Queen calls emergency family meeting ove | London, Jan 13 (TIWN) The UK's Queen Elizabeth II has called for an emergency family meeting on Monday in a bid to decide on the future roles of Prince Harry and his wife Meghan Markle, following the couple's shock announcement that they were stepping back as senior royals and work towards becoming financially independent. | 13-Jan-2020 |
Biden most preferred Democratic candidat | Washington, Jan 12 (TIWN) Former US Vice President Joe Biden is the most preferred Democratic presidential candidate among the African0American voters, according to a new poll. | 12-Jan-2020 |
Qureshi to visit Iran, Saudi, US in bid | Islamabad, Jan 12 (TIWN) Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi is scheduled begin his three-nation trip to Iran, Saudi Arabia and the US on Sunday, aimed at offering Islamabad's held in defusing the ongoing tensions in the Persian Gulf. | 12-Jan-2020 |
'N-talks only possible when US fully acc | Pyongyang, Jan 12 (TIWN) A top North Korean official said on Saturday that nuclear talks with the US can resume only when it fully accepts Pyongyang's demands. | 12-Jan-2020 |
18 Taliban militants killed in Afghanist | Kabul, Jan 12 (TIWN) Afghan forces, during a cleanup operation, have killed at least 18 Taliban militants in the country's Takhar province, officials said on Saturday. | 12-Jan-2020 |
Cuba slams extension of US ban on flight | Havana, Jan 11 (TIWN) Cuba has condemned the US government's decision to ban charter flights from America to all Cuban destinations except Havana. | 11-Jan-2020 |
Indian-American astronaut in programme w | New York, Jan 11 (TIWN) An Indian-American will be among astronauts who may get a chance to go to the moon or Mars following his graduation from NASA's programme to train astronauts for those missions and the International Space Station. | 11-Jan-2020 |
Boeing 737 Max designed by clowns: Inter | Chicago, Jan 10 (TIWN) The release of a batch of internal messages has raised more questions about the safety of Boeing's 737 Max aircraft that is currently grounded after two fatal crashes that killed around 350 people. | 10-Jan-2020 |
Thai police search for Rohingya who esca | Bangkok, Jan 10 (TIWN) Thai police have launched a search operation for a group of Rohingya Muslim refugees who fled a detention centre in the south of the country, an official said here on Friday. | 10-Jan-2020 |
House votes to limit Trump's war power o | Washington, Jan 10 (TIWN) The US House of Representatives has approved a largely symbolic resolution seeking to restrict President Donald Trump's power to take military actions against Iran without congressional approval. | 10-Jan-2020 |
25 soldiers killed in Niger army base at | Niamey, Jan 10 (TIWN) At least 25 soldiers have been killed in a suspected jihadist attack in Niger on a military camp along the border with Mali, the army said. | 10-Jan-2020 |
Homophobic hate crimes increase in Londo | London, Jan 10 (TIWN) Homophobic hate crimes in London have increased by 55 per cent in five years, prompting calls for changes to the law, it was reported. | 10-Jan-2020 |
Crashed Boeing jet tried to return to ai | Tehran, Jan 9 (TIWN) A plane that crashed in Iran with 179 people on board just after take-off was trying to the return to the airport when it crashed, Iranian investigators have said. | 09-Jan-2020 |
China's vice premier to sign US trade de | Beijing, Jan 9 (TIWN) China's Vice Premier Liu He, who is leading trade war negotiations with the US, will visit Washington to sign an agreement for the first phase of a deal, the Ministry of Commerce said on Thursday. | 09-Jan-2020 |
Japan lauds US 'measured response' on Ir | Tokyo, Jan 9 (TIWN) Japan on Thursday praised the US for its measured response in the wake of Wednesday's missile strikes by Iran on US air bases in Iraq. | 09-Jan-2020 |
4 held for disrupting Nobel laureate Lev | Kottayam (Kerala), Jan 9 (TIWN) The Kerala Police on Thursday arrested four workers of the state's ruling CPI-(M)-affiliated trade union CITU for preventing the state guests - Nobel laureate Micheal Levitt and his wife - from proceeding onwards on their houseboat journey near here. | 09-Jan-2020 |
Brazil's president not to attend World E | Rio de Janeiro, Jan 9 (TIWN) Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro will not attend the upcoming World Economic Forum at Davos in Switzerland, presidential spokesperson Otavio Rego Barros has said. | 09-Jan-2020 |
UK condemns Iran missile strikes | London, Jan 8 (TIWN) The UK government on Wednesday condemned the Iranian missile strikes on two US military bases in Iraq, where British personnel are also stationed. | 08-Jan-2020 |
Crisis with Iran may deescalate if no US | New Delhi/Washington, Jan 8 (TIWN) The crisis in the Middle East may deescalate if the US suffered no casualties in the retaliatory strikes that Iran launched against two American military bases in Iraq on Monday. Tehran has provided no proof of any American casualties yet. | 08-Jan-2020 |
Middle East cannot afford war, says Pak | Islamabad, Jan 8 (TIWN) Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi on Wednesday said that rising tensions in the Middle East was not in anyone's interest, adding that the region could not afford war. | 08-Jan-2020 |
Ukraine plane crashes in Iran, 179 kille | Tehran, Jan 8 (TIWN) A Kiev-bound Ukrainian Boeing 737 passenger plane with 179 people on board crashed on Wednesday shortly after taking off from the Iranian capital of Tehran, killing all those aboard. | 08-Jan-2020 |
Trump bringing US close to war with Iran | New York, Jan 8 (TIWN) Former US Vice President and Democratic front-runner Joe Biden has said that President Donald Trump was bringing the US "dangerously close" to starting a war with Iran. | 08-Jan-2020 |
Soleimani's killing divides Sunni-Shia w | New Delhi, Jan 7 (TIWN) As much as the troika of Turkey, Malaysia and Pakistan has been portraying itself as the champion of Islam and the Muslim world, the killing of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) commander Qasem Soleimani has exposed the historic Shia-Sunni sectarian faultline once again. | 07-Jan-2020 |
1 killed in US Walmart shooting | Washington, Jan 7 (TIWN) One person was killed and another injured in a shooting at a Walmart store in the US city of New Orleans, Louisiana, police said. | 07-Jan-2020 |
Protests erupt in Dhaka University over | Dhaka, Jan 7 (TIWN) Protests erupted in the Dhaka University (DU) over the rape of a student, with the participants raising concerns over womens safety in the Bangladeshi capital and also across the country, it was reported on Tuesday. | 07-Jan-2020 |
Mild cold wave to continue in B'desh | Dhaka, Jan 7 (TIWN) A mild cold wave will continue over various districts in the northern and central regions of Bangladesh following two days of rain, weather officials said on Tuesday. | 07-Jan-2020 |
2 Rohingya men killed in B'desh gunfight | Dhaka, Jan 7 (TIWN) The Border Guards Bangladesh (BGB) has claimed that two Rohingya men were killed in a gunfight with suspected drug smugglers along the borders with Myanmar, it was reported. | 07-Jan-2020 |
Thousands pay tribute to Soleimani in Te | Tehran, Jan 7 (TIWN) Hundreds of thousands of mourners, including Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, gathered in Tehran on Monday to pay tribute to Iranian Major General Qasem Soleimani, who was killed in a targeted US drone attack in Baghdad last week. | 07-Jan-2020 |
Maduro recognizes National Assembly's ne | Caracas, Jan 6 (TIWN) Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has recognized the newly-elected board of directors of the National Assembly, and president of the legislative body, Luis Parra. | 05-Jan-2020 |
Follow my Twitter for Iran updates, Trum | Washington, Jan 6 (TIWN) US President Donald Trump has told Congress to follow his Twitter posts for any action against Iran if it retaliates against the death of Iranian Major General Qasem Soleimani, who was killed in an American drone strike last week. | 05-Jan-2020 |
Iran takes final step to end commitments | Tehran, Jan 6 (TIWN) Iran has announced the fifth and final step to end its commitments to the landmark 2015 nuclear deal, official IRNA news agency reported. | 05-Jan-2020 |
Al-Shabab militants attack Kenyan naval | London, Jan 6 (TIWN) Somalia-based, Al Qaeda-linked Islamist militant group Al Shabab on Sunday attacked a naval base used by Kenyan and US forces in Kenya's Lamu coastal region, reports said. | 05-Jan-2020 |