BEIRUT (TIP): The Syrian government reached an agreement with the United Nations on february 6 to secure the evacuation of hundreds of trapped civilians from besieged parts of the central city of Homs, according to […]
LONDON (TIP): Britain deployed Royal Marines on Thursday to help with devastating floods after what officials said was likely the worst winter rainfall in 250 years. Around 40 marines were helping reinforce flood defences near […]
LONDON (TIP): An extraordinary love note has emerged exposing media mogul Rupert Murdoch’s former wife Wendi Deng’s alleged infatuation with Tony Blair’s “good body”. In the undated note, the Chinese-born 44-year-old Deng has written how […]
CAIRO (TIP): An Egyptian court on February 6 ordered the retrial of 21 people sentenced to death in a politically charged case for involvement in deadly soccer stadium violence in 2012, judicial sources said. The […]
COLOMBO (TIP): The Sri Lankan government has refused to issue a visa to US ambassador at large for women’s issues, Catherine Russell, forcing her to cancel a high-level visit scheduled for Feb 10-11. “It is […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): The US has issued a fresh travel alert, asking its citizens to defer all nonessential travel to Pakistan in the wake of threats from several foreign and indigenous terrorist groups across the country. […]
KATHMANDU (TIP): At least 14 people were killed and seven others injured on Feb 6 when a passenger bus veered off a mountain highway and fell some 500 metres into a river. The bus, carrying […]
DHAKA (TIP): At least 11 people were killed and over 50 were missing after a boat sank in the Surma river in Bangladesh’s Sunamganj district, an official said Tuesday. The boat sank around 9 pm […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): After initial hiccups, Pakistani state negotiators and a Taliban-nominated committee met at an undisclosed location today to frame a roadmap for parleys aimed at ending terrorism and bringing peace to the country. The […]
KATHMANDU: A 47-year-old man in Nepal who downed a bottle of whisky after a bet with a friend has died from medical complications three weeks after the drinking challenge, officials said on February 6. Pancharam […]
MANILA (TIP): Philippine troops have killed at least 40 Islamic fighters and captured a rebel stronghold with a bomb-making facility in a two-day offensive against insurgents opposed to a new peace deal, military officials said […]
TORONTO (TIP): Canadian police charged Justin Bieber on January 29 with assaulting a limousine driver in Toronto in December, the latest in a string of legal troubles for the young pop star. The incident happened […]
LONDON (TIP): British PM David Cameron’s ancestry has been traced to India, specifically Kolkata. This comes just months after Prince William was found to have Indian blood in him and a direct descendent of an […]
The Shock of the Fall – the story of two brothers dealing with schizophrenia by first time author and mental health nurse Nathan Filer has edged past some of the established names in modern day […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Declaring that 2014 can be the “breakthrough year” for America and the US is “better-positioned for the 21st century than any other nation on Earth”, US President Barack Obama warned the country’s lawmakers […]
JUBA (TIP): South Sudan released seven rebel detainees January 30 but vowed to put on trial key leaders accused of launching weeks of fighting, a move likely to threaten a fragile ceasefire. The sides implemented […]
KIEV, UKRAINE (TIP): Ukraine’s Parliament has passed a measure offering amnesty to arrested protesters, but only if demonstrators vacate most of the buildings they occupy. The measure, passed on January 29 after nearly 12 hours […]
Chinese nationals have been banned from flying on the commercial space flights operated by Virgin Galactic over fears that the rocket technology being implemented will be stolen. This is due to the fact that the […]
TRIPOLI (TIP): Libya’s interior minister escaped unscathed from an assassination attempt in Tripoli on January 29, the LANA news agency reported. Seddik Abdelkarim, who is also deputy prime minister, was in his car when “unknown […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): Former Pakistani dictator Pervez Musharraf’s treason trial was on January 29 adjourned for a day after his lawyers sought time to go through prosecution’s objections to his medical report. Musharraf’s counsel Anwar Mansoor […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): A ceremony to launch teenage rights activist Malala Yousufzai’s book at a Pakistan university has been scrapped on the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa government’s intervention on the grounds that it could not provide security for the […]
COLOMBO: Thousands of protesters from opposition parties, human rights groups, trade unions and media groups marched on Monday in Sri Lanka’s capital in a rare show of dissent against the government. They held separate marches […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): Despite a wave of deadly attacks unleashed by the Taliban across the country in recent months, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on January 29 announced the formation of a four-member committee to pursue peace […]
KABUL (TIP): Afghanistan said on January 28 it expects to release within two weeks a first batch of alleged Taliban prisoners, who the US says are responsible for dozens of NATO and Afghan deaths. Kabul […]
KATHMANDU: Nepali Congress president Sushil Koirala January 28 became the favourite to be Nepal’s new prime minister after he was elected the leader of the Nepali Congress parliamentary party defeating his competitor Sher Bahadur Deuba, […]
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