ISLAMABAD (TIP): Nuclear Pakistan was fully capable of responding “befittingly” to Indian aggression on the LoC and the international border, the country’s defence minister, Khwaja Muhammad Asif, said on October 9, responding to an earlier […]
KATHMANDU (TIP): Nepal’s Prime Minister Sushil Koirala, who was diagnosed with first stage lung cancer and underwent radiotherapy sessions in the US, has fully recovered from the disease, his close aide said on October 02. […]
DHAKA (TIP): Bangladesh on Monday appointed veteran diplomat and former foreign secretary Syed Muazzem Ali as its new high commissioner to India. Ali served as the foreign secretary during the ruling Awami League’s previous 1996-2001 […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): At least 15 militants were killed on October 3 in air strikes by Pakistani military in the restive northwestern tribal region, where the security forces have launched a major offensive to wipe out […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): At least 17 people have died in the last four days after consuming toxic liquor in Pakistan’s Sindh province, media report said on friday. Around 150 people have been arrested in connection with […]
BEIJING (TIP): Hong Kong pro-democracy protesters cancelled planned talks with the government on electoral reforms on October 3 after violent scuffles broke out in the city’s Mong Kok district after a large group of people […]
STOCKHOLM (TIP): Sweden’s new centre-left government will recognize the state of Palestine in a move that will make it the first major European country to take the step, Prime Minister Stefan Lofven said on Friday. […]
DONETSK, UKRAINE (TIP): Ukrainian forces clashed with pro-Russian insurgents for control of a strategic airport in the restive east on Friday and traded blame over the death of a Swiss aid worker, four weeks into […]
HONG KONG (TIP): Hong Kong police have arrested eight suspected members of triad criminal gangs over clashes at ongoing pro-democracy protests, after attacks by groups including Beijing supporters left demonstrators injured and bloodied. The announcement, […]
YUMURTALIK, TURKEY (TIP): Khaled Baki phones the number of a fellow Kurdish fighter and gets through to the Islamic State militants who say they beheaded her. Baki’s friend, one of the Kurdish forces’ many female […]
EDINBURGH (TIP): Voters in Scotland rejected independence from Britain in a referendum that had threatened to break up a 307-year union, according to projections by the BBC and Sky early Friday, September 19. The outcome […]
CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA (TIP): The Islamic State plot to carry out random beheadings in Sydney alleged by police is a simple and barbaric scheme that has shaken Australians. But terrorism experts on September 19 questioned whether […]
MOSCOW (TIP): A team of BBC journalists was beaten and their camera smashed in southern Russia, where they were looking into reports of Russian soldiers killed while on secret deployments near Ukraine, the broadcaster said […]
MANILA, PHILIPPINES (TIP): Heavy rain due to a storm and the seasonal monsoon has caused widespread flooding in the Philippine capital and nearby provinces, shutting down schools and government offices. Local officials interviewed on radio […]
KARACHI (TIP): In an unprecedented incident on Monday, September 15, a Pakistani politician Rehman Malik who has been Interior Minister of Pakistan, was virtually chased away by airline passengers furious at being forced to wait […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): A murder case has been registered against Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, his brother and Punjab chief minister Shahbaz Sharif, three federal ministers and top police officials over the alleged killing of two […]
DHAKA (TIP): Bangladesh’s Supreme Court on Sept 17 commuted the death sentence of Delwar Hossain Sayedee, a top Islamist preacher whose sentencing last year triggered the deadliest political violence in the country’s history, , to […]
KABUL (TIP): A police official in Kabul said that a suicide car bomber has targeted a foreign convoy just a couple hundred yards (meters) from the US embassy. According to reports, at least one person […]
COLOMBO: Chinese President Xi Jinping won Sri Lanka’s support on Tuesday for a proposed maritime “Silk Road” linking China with Europe, and helped launch billion-dollar power plant and port city projects funded by his government. […]
Extraordinary footage has emerged of a Ukrainian MP being chucked in to a bin by protesters. Vitaliy Zhuravskiy can be seen wearing a suit and holding his briefcase as he’s ushered to the large refuse […]
BEIJING (TIP): China on Septt 15 made it clear that it will “not support” the India-Vietnam agreement to enable ONGC to explore two more oil wells if they fall within the waters of the disputed […]
SHANGAHAI (TIP): A Chinese woman who sued a man for “violating her right to virginity” after he wooed her with false promises has been awarded nearly $5,000 by a court, reports said on Sept 17. […]
SYDNEY (TIP): Counterterrorism raids in Sydney on Sept 17 were sparked by security intelligence that the Islamic State movement was planning a public killing as a demonstration of its reach, the prime minister said on […]
BEIJING (TIP): A 3000-year-old bronze sword has been discovered in a local river by an 11-year-old child in east China’s Jiangsu Province. Yang Junxi discovered the rusty sword on July 2 when he was playing […]
TOKYA (TIP): Burger King in Japan is taking bizarre fast food to new heights with black cheeseburgers complete with black buns, black cheese and black sauce. The chain started the Premium Kuro Burger (kuro means […]
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