BEIJING (TIP): A leading figure of a small citizen movement in southern China was released on bail on June 25, nearly one month after he was taken into police custody, his lawyers said. Wang Aizhong […]
LAHORE, PAKISTAN (TIP): The leader of a Pakistani Islamist organization that was labeled a terror group and slapped with economic sanctions by the United States denied having any links to militancy on June 26 and […]
PESHAWAR (TIP): One person was killed and two others injured when shots were fired at a Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) plane landing at the Peshawar airport on June 22 night. The shots were fired at […]
KATHMANDU (TIP): US doctors treating Nepalese Prime Minister Sushil Koirala have ruled out lung cancer and diagnosed the 75-year-old with tuberculosis, a spokesman for the premier’s Nepali Congress party said on June 26. Koirala travelled […]
KANDAHAR, AFGHANISTAN (TIP): More than 800 Taliban insurgents have launched a major offensive in southern Afghanistan to try to gain territory recently vacated by US troops, officials said on June 25, as five days of […]
YANGON (TIP): Proposals by radical Buddhist monks to criminalize interfaith marriage in Myanmar face strong opposition from women’s rights groups in a tussle over the nation’s religious identity that has sparked international alarm. Buddhist nationalists, […]
DHAKA (TIP): A Bangladesh tribunal on June 22 deferred the verdict on the chief of the fundamentalist Jamaat-e-Islami, accused of war crimes during the country’s liberation war against Pakistan in 1971, at the last minute […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): The long-awaited Pakistani military assault has been launched in North Waziristan. For over a decade, the region harboured local and foreign militants including Arabs, Chechens, Uzbeks, Turkmen, Tajiks and Uighurs. Some militant groups […]
KABUL (TIP): Election officials overseeing Afghanistan’s first democratic transfer of power sifted through scores of fraud complaints on June 12 as they began a lengthy vote count, after insurgents killed at least 50 people on […]
KABUL (TIP): Afghan officials say three Taliban suicide bombers targeted Nato fuel trucks at the border with Pakistan, setting off a gunbattle with police guards. A spokesman for the border police in eastern Nangarhar province, […]
COLOMBO, SRI LANKA (TIP): The European Union expressed alarm on June 18 at recent violence against Muslims in Sri Lanka in which three people died and more than 50 were injured, and urged the government […]
KABUL (TIP): Afghan presidential election candidate Abdullah Abdullah on June 18 demanded a halt to votecounting over fraud allegations, taking the country to the brink of a political crisis during its first democratic transfer of […]
ISLAMABAD: At least eight people were killed and 85 injured in Lahore on Tuesday when the police clashed with supporters of moderate cleric Dr Tahirul Qadri, a Canadian national of Pakistani origin, vowing to bring […]
MADRID (TIP): Taking the Spanish throne on June 19, King Felipe VI sought to inspire his beleaguered countrymen amid troubled economic times and lift patriotic spirits a day after the national team’s humbling exit from […]
KIEV (TIP): Ukraine’s new pro-Western President Petro Poroshenko said on June 19 he would sign the crucial trade and economic relations portion of an historic EU pact in Brussels on June 27. The old Kremlin-backed […]
BEIJING: Seeking to allay fears over China’s expansionist agenda, Premier Li Keqiang said territorial expansion is not part of the Chinese DNA and the country will never indulge in it. “Expansion is not in the […]
BEIJING (TIP): Four persons, including two children, are missing after a two-story building of a village primary school collapsed early today in China’s eastern Jiangxi Province. The building of the primary school in Dangkou Village, […]
LONDON (TIP): The gathering at the Ecuadorean embassy in London has the feel of something which may become an annual fixture. For the second time in as many years, journalists were invited on Thursday to […]
BEIJING (TIP): Major Chinese oil firms have prepared evacuation plans in case spreading violence in Iraq — a key energy provider to the Asian giant — threatens their operations, state media reported June 19. China […]
BERLIN (TIP): German rescuers on June 19 brought to safety an injured caver, ending his 11-day ordeal and a massive recovery operation deep below the Bavarian Alps. “The victim has been brought to the surface […]
LONDON (TIP): An inch wide, dirty and heavily postmarked stamp has set a new world auction record by getting sold for $9,480,000. The British Guiana one-cent black on magenta sold for nearly 1 billion times […]
SINGAPORE (TIP): Brent crude held near $115 a barrel on June 20, close to a nine-month high and headed for its second weekly gain on increased risks of supply disruptions from Iraq. Iraqi government forces […]
PORT OF SPAIN (TIP): The Global Organization of People of Indian Origin (GOPIO International) concluded its 25th Anniversary (Jubilee) Convention 2014 in Port of Spain in Trinidad & Tobago, with a memorable and highly successful […]
UNITED NATIONS (TIP): Russia introduced a UN Security Council resolution on June 12 that strongly urges an immediate end to all violence in Ukraine and the launching of a national dialogue involving all political forces […]
KINSHASA (TIP): Rwandan and Congolese troops traded heavy weapons fire on June 12 in a second day of fighting on the border between the two neighbours which have been locked in a decades-long dispute. After […]
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