KANEOHE BAY (TIP): US President Barack Obama says Afghanistan has a chance to rebuild thanks to the extraordinary service of US troops. Obama is honoring troops on Christmas at Marine Corps Base Hawaii. It’s an […]
SEOUL (TIP): North Korea accused the United States on December 27 of being responsible for Internet outages it experienced in recent days amid a confrontation between them over the hacking of the film studio Sony […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): For years now, the Obama administration has warned of the risks of a “cyber-Pearl Harbor”, a nightmare attack that takes out America’s power grids and cellphone networks and looks like the opening battle […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The division and denial in Pakistan’s political class on terror was evident once again when former PPP minister Sherry Rehman said those engaged in the apologist narrative on terrorist attacks would be […]
JAKARTA (TIP): Indonesia’s new president Joko Widodo caused a stir this weekend by opting to fly economy class to watch his son’s high school graduation in Singapore, drawing both praise and criticism online. Skipping the […]
KARACHI (TIP): Army chief Gen Raheel Sharif, arguably the most powerful man in Pakistan, tweeted on Wednesday, “Asked PM Nawaz Sharif to hang all terrorists. More than 3,000 terrorists should be hanged in next 48 […]
KABUL (TIP): An Afghan man and his girlfriend were each given 100 lashes in public for having sex outside of marriage, officials in the eastern Afghan province of Kapisa told media persons. Dozens of people […]
COLOMBO (TIP): Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa demanded that the Norwegian government must probe the funding of the LTTE during the island’s three-decade civil war, alleging that Norway financed the ethnic Tamil militant group. “They […]
JAKARTA (TIP): Indonesia’s new president Joko Widodo caused a stir this weekend by opting to fly economy class to watch his son’s high school graduation in Singapore, drawing both praise and criticism online. Skipping the […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The division and denial in Pakistan’s political class on terror was evident once again when former PPP minister Sherry Rehman said those engaged in the apologist narrative on terrorist attacks would be […]
MAIDUGURI, NIGERIA (TIP): Boko Haram militants killed 32 people and kidnapped 185 of others, including women and children, in a brutal attack on a village in the northeast area of Nigeria, officials and a witness […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): President Barack Obama has signed legislation into law allowing him to sanction Venezuelan government officials who were involved in a crackdown on anti-government protesters. The bill authorizes sanctions that would freeze the assets […]
BAGHDAD (TIP): About 300 Chinese people are fighting alongside the ISIS in Iraq and Syria, a Chinese state-run newspaper said on Monday, December 15, a rare tally that is likely to fuel worry in China […]
MOSCOW (TIP): From a Western perspective, Vladimir Putin’s days as president of Russia should be numbered: The ruble has lost more than half its value, the economy is in crisis and his aggression in Ukraine […]
SYDNEY (TIP): Eight children have been killed and a woman injured, police said on December 18, during what several media outlets reported was a mass stabbing in Australia’s tropical northern city of Cairns. Australia […]
BEIJING (TIP): A Chinese woman was spotted trying to sell her baby daughter to raise money for the medical treatment of her hospitalized husband in Fuzhou city on December 10. Her husband suffered serious injuries […]
LONDON (TIP): Britain has announced a series of laws — the first of its kind in the world — which will concern babies being born with three genetic parents in the UK. One of the […]
VATICAN CITY (TIP): Pope Francis rightly got credit for helping bring the US and Cuba together and free US government subcontractor Alan Gross. But it was actually Francis’ predecessor, Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI, who made […]
KARACHI (TIP): Imran Khan led Pakistan Tehreek-e- Insaaf (PTI) has called for a complete shutdown of the port city on December 12 as part of its countrywide protests against the Nawaz Sharif government. Senior PTI […]
KABUL, AFGHANISTAN (TIP): A teenage suicide bomber attacked a French-run high school in Kabul on December 11, walking into a packed auditorium during a theater performance and killing a German citizen, Afghan officials said. The […]
DHAKA (TIP): Bhutan and not India was the first to to recognize Bangladesh as an independent nation, foreign office has said, putting an end to the decades-old speculation on the issue. “Bhutan was the first […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): Pakistani Taliban on December 11 criticized Nobel laureate Malala Yoususzai, saying the teenage activist has entered into an agreement with “satanic forces” to promote western culture and destroy Pakistan. In its first reaction […]
COLOMBO (TIP): A Sri Lankan military transport aircraft crashed near the capital Colombo on Decmeber 12 killing four people on board and injuring another crew member, police said. The Antonov AN-32 aircraft slammed into a […]
KATMANDU, Nepal: Police say an overcrowded bus has plunged off a mountain road in Nepal, killing at least 17 people and injuring 50 more. Police official Kesh Bahadur Shahi said Monday that the bus veered […]
HONG KONG (TIP): Hong Kong police arrested pro-democracy activists and cleared most of the main protest site on december 11, marking an end to more than two months of street demonstrations in the Chinese-controlled city, […]
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