Archive Detail
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China's population continued to grow in | Beijing, Jan 17 (TIWN) China's population has grown to 1.4126 billion by the end of last year, government data showed on Monday. | 17-Jan-2022 |
Aus state warned over high Covid deaths | Sydney, Jan 17 (TIWN) Authorities of Australia's New South Wales (NSW) state warned on Monday that the number of Covid-19 deaths is "likely to be high" over the coming days due to the ongoing surge in community transmission. | 17-Jan-2022 |
Japanese city marks 27th anniversary of | Tokyo, Jan 17 (TIWN) The port city of Kobe in the western Japanese prefecture of Hyogo on Monday marked the 27th anniversary of the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake striking the region and claiming the lives of 6,434 people. | 17-Jan-2022 |
Japanese PM reiterates commitment to tac | Tokyo, Jan 17 (TIWN) Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Monday reiterated his commitment to tackle the Covid-19 pandemic amid the rampant spread of the Omicron variant. | 17-Jan-2022 |
Child killed, 4 wounded in roadside bomb | Kabul, Jan 16 (TIWN) At least a child was killed and four security personnel were wounded after a roadside bomb blast hit a security forces pick-up truck in Bagrami district, east of the capital Kabul on Sunday, the capital police said. | 16-Jan-2022 |
S.Korea, UAE to speed up cooperation in | Dubai, Jan 16 (TIWN) South Korea will speed up cooperation with the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in key eco-friendly technologies for the hydrogen economy, visiting President Moon Jae-in said here on Sunday, as Seoul seeks to expand the horizons of energy cooperation with the Persian Gulf nation. | 16-Jan-2022 |
Israel to roll out Covid vax for kids be | Jerusalem, Jan 16 (TIWN) Israel is expected to start vaccines for babies and toddlers, between six months and 5 years, by April, according to a senior health official. | 16-Jan-2022 |
40% self-employed S.Koreans mull biz clo | Seoul, Jan 16 (TIWN) Forty per cent self-employed people in South Korea are considering closing their businesses due to sluggish sales amid the long-enforced strict social distancing rules due to the Covid-19 pandemic, a survey revealed on Sunday. | 15-Jan-2022 |
S.Korean ruling party's prez candidate v | Seoul, Jan 16 (TIWN) Lee Jae-myung, the presidential candidate of South Korea's ruling Democratic Party, on Sunday said he will resume tourism to North Korea's Mount Kumgang as soon as possible if he's elected in the March 9 polls. | 15-Jan-2022 |
EU excess mortality up 26.5% in Nov 2021 | Brussels, Jan 15 (TIWN) Excess mortality in the European Union (EU) reached 26.5 per cent in November 2021, Eurostat, the bloc's statistical agency, said. | 15-Jan-2022 |
Strone quake in Indonesia injures 2, cau | Jakarta, Jan 15 (TIWN) Over 900 houses and buildings were destroyed, and two people were injured after a strong 6.6-magnitude earthquake struck Indonesia's capital Jakarta and its surrounding provinces, disaster agency officials said on Saturday. | 15-Jan-2022 |
NZ issues tsunami warning following Tong | Wellington, Jan 15 (TIWN) New Zealands National Emergency Management Agency on Saturday issued a tsunami warning following a volcanic eruption in Tonga's Hunga Ha'apai island. | 15-Jan-2022 |
Iraqi forces foil drone attack on air ba | Baghdad, Jan 15 (TIWN) Iraqi forces on Saturday thwarted an attack by three drones on an air base near Baghdad, the military said. | 15-Jan-2022 |
Int'l passengers mandated to upload RT-P | New Delhi, Jan 15 (TIWN) International passengers arriving in India will now need to upload their RT-PCR report on the Air Suvidha portal for the test done on the eighth day of arrival. | 15-Jan-2022 |
China using its billions to buy politica | New Delhi, Jan 14 (TIWN) Allegations that a suspected Chinese spy has donated more than 500,000 pounds to a senior Labour MP in Britain appear to fit part and parcel with Beijings modus operandi -- using its billions in cash to buy political influence across the planet, the Daily Mail reported. | 14-Jan-2022 |
S.Korean flight return from Kazakhstan a | Seoul, Jan 14 (TIWN) A South Korean passenger jet carrying dozens of citizens departed on Thursday from a Kazakh airport, eight days after it got grounded in the Central Asian nation gripped by political turmoil. | 14-Jan-2022 |
Tokyo's Covid alert raised to 2nd highes | Tokyo, Jan 14 (TIWN) The Tokyo metropolitan government on Thursday raised its Covid-19 alert level to the second highest on its four-tier scale owing to the rampant spread of the Omicron variant in the Japanese capital. | 14-Jan-2022 |
UN reports significant spike in terror a | United Nations, Jan 14 (TIWN) UN peacekeepers have reported a significant increase in terrorist attacks in the Central African Republic (CAR), a spokesman for the world body said. | 14-Jan-2022 |
Pak batter Abid Ali optimistic of succes | Lahore, Jan 14 (TIWN) Pakistan Test player Abid Ali is hoping for a successful return to the game as he began his rehabilitation after undergoing angioplasty in December 2021. | 14-Jan-2022 |
Trade deal with India is UK's biggest ne | New Delhi, Jan 13 (TIWN) With no progress on a free trade deal with the US, and none expected in the foreseeable future, the formal start of talks with India is the biggest negotiation the UK government will launch this year, the BBC reported. | 13-Jan-2022 |
Tunisia imposes 2-week curfew | Tunis, Jan 13 (TIWN) From Thursday onwards, the Tunisian government will implement a new two-week curfew across the country to curb the spread of the latest wave of the Covid-19 pandemic. | 13-Jan-2022 |
N. Korea says it has succeeded in final | Seoul, Jan 12 (TIWN) North Korea said Wednesday it has successfully conducted the "final" test-firing of a new hypersonic missile a day earlier as its leader Kim Jong-un called for the strengthening of the country's "strategic military muscle both in quality and quantity" during an on-site inspection. | 12-Jan-2022 |
Aid to Afghanistan, Syria, vaccine equit | United Nations, Jan 12 (TIWN) Aid to Afghanistan and Syria, as well as vaccine equity demands were high on the 2021 agenda of the UN Security Council (UNSC), which was grappling with more issues as the Covid-19 pandemic caused various problems including an economic fallout, the UNSC said. | 12-Jan-2022 |
Car bombing hits Somali capital | Mogadishu, Jan 12 (TIWN) A suicide car bombing rocked Somali capital Mogadishu on Wednesday, police and witnesses said. | 12-Jan-2022 |
Germany to miss climate targets for 2022 | Berlin, Jan 12 (TIWN) Germany would miss its climate targets for 2022 and 2023, Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Action Robert Habeck said on Tuesday when presenting a report on the current state of climate protection in the country. | 12-Jan-2022 |
First time in history, a Pig-heart has b | Washington, Jan 12 : US surgeons have successfully implanted a heart from a genetically modified pig in a 57-year-old man, a medical first that could one day help solve the chronic shortage of organ donations. | 11-Jan-2022 |
Japan further extends strict entry ban | Tokyo, Jan 11 (TIWN) Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said Tuesday an entry ban on non-resident foreigners will be further extended until the end of February. | 11-Jan-2022 |
Bushfire rages in Western Australia | Canberra, Jan 11 (TIWN) Emergency authorities in Western Australia have issued warnings to residents on the state's southwest as a bushfire continues to rage on Tuesday. | 11-Jan-2022 |
Yemeni forces recapture oil-rich provinc | Aden, Jan 11 (TIWN) Yemeni forces have announced the capture of the oil-rich province of Shabwa from the Houthi militia after intense battles. | 11-Jan-2022 |
Libya seeks to lift UN no-fly zone embar | Tripoli, Jan 11 (TIWN) Libya's Undersecretary of Foreign Affairs Omar Katti met with the head of the country's Civil Aviation Authority Mustafa Ammar to discuss coordination to lift the no-fly zone embargo imposed on the country by the UN Security Council in 2011. | 11-Jan-2022 |
Kazakhstan garners support for restoring | Nur-Sultan, Jan 11 (TIWN) Several countries and groups have voiced support for Kazakhstan in cracking down on riots and bringing back normal life as an externally-stoked "terrorist attack" has caused great losses to the Central Asian country. | 11-Jan-2022 |
Republican Congressman rejects request t | Washington, Jan 10 (TIWN) Republican Congressman Jim Jordan has rejected a request from the House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021 Capitol riot to voluntarily cooperate with the probe. | 10-Jan-2022 |
S.Korean Prez to embark on Middle East t | Seoul, Jan 10 (TIWN) South Korean President Moon Jae-in will embark on three-country Middle East trip later this week as Seoul seeks to boost ties with the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Saudi Arabia and Egypt in the fields of energy, construction and infrastructure, officials said on Monday. | 10-Jan-2022 |
Pak national exchequer robbed of billion | New Delhi, Jan 10 (TIWN) The insider story of the controversial and alleged illegal partnership between Pakistan Television (PTV) and the private ARY channel has come to light, The News International reported. | 10-Jan-2022 |
Hasina pays tributes on 50th anniversary | Dhaka, Jan 10 (TIWN) Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday paid tributes on the 50th anniversary of Homecoming Day, which marks Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's return to the country in 1972 after spending months in a Pakistan jail. | 10-Jan-2022 |
Crisis-hit SL asks China to restructure | New Delhi, Jan 10 (TIWN) Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has asked China to restructure the crisis-hit island nation's debt repayments as part of efforts to help the South Asian country navigate its worsening financial situation, the BBC reported. | 10-Jan-2022 |
Omicron maybe '1st ray of light' against | London, Jan 9 (TIWN) The emergence of the highly transmissible Omicron variant could be "first ray of light" that in the future there may be a less severe coronavirus variant that is similar to the common cold, according to a UK scientist. | 09-Jan-2022 |
Afghan professor who called Taliban inte | New Delhi, Jan 9 (TIWN) Taliban authorities in Afghanistan have arrested an outspoken critic of the government, drawing strong calls for his immediate release from civil society activists, VOA reported. | 09-Jan-2022 |
China issues alert for heavy fog | Beijing, Jan 9 (TIWN) China's national observatory on Sunday issued a yellow alert for heavy fog in some regions of the country. | 09-Jan-2022 |
Many vehicles, people told not to enter | Beijing, Jan 9 (TIWN) North China's Tianjin Municipality, home to 15 million people and also a major gateway and "moat" to Beijing, rolled out massive nucleic acid testing on all its residents on Sunday after it detected 20 Covid-19 infections in one day, including two of the Omicron variant, Global Times reported. | 09-Jan-2022 |
US reopens mass vaccination sites | Washington, Jan 9 (TIWN) In the wake of an unprecedented Covid-19 resurgence in the US, mass vaccination centres across the country which were closed down months ago, were now being reopened to deal with the latest wave of the pandemic fuelled by the highly-transmissible Omicron variant. | 09-Jan-2022 |
Taliban acting FM arrives in Tehran for | Tehran/Kabul, Jan 9 (TIWN) With a 26-member delegation, the Taliban's acting Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi arrived in Tehran for talks with Iranian officials on political, economic and transit issues, as well as on the Afghan refugees in Iran, media reports said. | 09-Jan-2022 |
Global dementia cases may triple to 150 | New York, Jan 9 (TIWN) Dementia cases are expected to rise by over 150 million by 2050, which is about three times more than in 2019, suggests a new study. | 08-Jan-2022 |
21 tourists stranded in cars freeze to d | New Delhi, Jan 8 (TIWN) At least 21 people died of cold after they were stranded in their cars during the snowstorm in Murree in Pakistan on Friday night, according to Pakistan Interior Minister Sheikh Rasheed, Samaa TV reported. | 08-Jan-2022 |
Aus retailers hiking rates of Covid test | Canberra, Jan 8 (TIWN) Australian retailers who hike prices of Covid-19 test kits will face prison time and fines under a new law. | 08-Jan-2022 |
Pak NSA to visit Kabul after border tens | New Delhi, Jan 8 (TIWN) Moeed Yusuf, the National Security Advisor (NSA) of Pakistan, will visit Kabul soon as tensions have risen along the Durand Line, the de facto border between the two countries, Tolo News reported. | 08-Jan-2022 |
Constitutional order largely restored in | Nur-Sultan, Jan 8 (TIWN) Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev said on Friday that constitutional order has been largely restored in all regions of the country amid the ongoing unrest. | 08-Jan-2022 |
Japan to declare Covid quasi-state of em | Tokyo, Jan 8 (TIWN) Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will place three prefectures under a quasi-state of emergency on Friday amid a spike in Covid-19 cases stemming from American military personnel based in the prefectures spreading the virus. | 08-Jan-2022 |
2 Sudanese protesters dead, 54 security | Khartoum, Jan 7 (TIWN) Sudanese police announced on Friday that two protesters were killed and 54 security personnel injured in demonstrations in the capital Khartoum that took place a day ago. | 07-Jan-2022 |
Aus state to reintroduce curbs | Sydney, Jan 7 (TIWN) As the Australian state of New South Wales (NSW) is battling the latest Covid-19 outbreak, authorities on Friday reintroduced restrictions. | 07-Jan-2022 |