WASHINGTON (TIP): Former US National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden leaked as many as 200,000 classified US documents to the media, according to little-noticed public remarks by the eavesdropping agency’s chief late last month. In […]
LONDON (TIP): British PM David Cameron has described his country’s relationship with India as “the great partnership of the 21st century” and said the UK needs to “continue to do everything” to further build it. […]
GENEVA (TIP): US secretary of state John Kerry will join nuclear talks between major powers and Iran in Geneva on Friday in an attempt to nail down a long-elusive accord to start resolving a decade-old […]
DERA ISMAIL KHAN (TIP): The Pakistani Taliban announced on November 8 they would orchestrate a wave of revenge attacks against the government after naming hardline commander Mullah Fazlullah as their new leader. The rise of […]
GENEVA (TIP): Iran’s plan to cap some of the country’s atomic activities in exchange for selective relief from crippling economic sanctions has been accepted by six world powers, the country’s chief nuclear negotiator said on […]
LONDON (TIP): Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson, two former editors of Rupert Murdoch’s now defunct News of the World tabloid, were having an affair at the time their reporters are accused of hacking into phones, […]
BANGKOK (TIP): A former Thai prime minister and his deputy vowed on October 29 to fight any legal charges against them for their alleged role in the death of anti-government demonstrators during a bloody 2010 […]
NIAMEY (TIP): The corpses of 92 migrants, most of them women and children, have been found in northern Niger after their vehicles broke down attempting to cross the vast Sahara desert, authorities said on october […]
NEW YORK (TIP): Eyeing an upper hand in a baroque regional power game after the withdrawal of US troops next year, the Afghan government tried to work with the Pakistan Taliban with the “ultimate” goal […]
MOSCOW (TIP): US security leaker Edward Snowden is set to start a new job at a major Russian website, three months after the fugitive was given asylum in Russia, his lawyer said on October 31. […]
DHAKA (TIP): At least four persons were killed as fresh violence erupted on October 29 across Bangladesh on the final day of a 60-hour opposition strike demanding a caretaker regime to oversee the next general […]
BEIJING (TIP): A Chinese policeman was arrested after he allegedly shot a woman dead and injured another in China’s southern Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. Head of Pingnan County’s public security bureau, where the policeman worked, […]
CANBERRA (TIP): Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott made a surprise visit to Afghanistan on October 28 to mark the impending end of Australia’s military involvement in the conflict, his office said. Abbott arrived at the […]
KATHMANDU (TIP): Two Indian nationals were among three people arrested for the murder of a constituent assembly election candidate in Bara district in southern Nepal in October. Police said on Sunday that Mohamed Alam, a […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): Pakistan has told the US that Shakil Afridi, the jailed doctor who helped the CIA track al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden, is not a hero and his fate will be decided by the […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): China will be able to sidestep global nuclear commerce rules when it sells its third generation nuclear reactors to Pakistan, making its sale a win-win deal for both countries. China has reverse-engineered Westinghouse’s […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): Faced with India’s charges of continued ceasefire violations, Pakistan’s military on October 23 blamed Indian troops of targeting its forward posts in the past two days. “Indian troops have intensified violations and carried […]
QUETTA, PAKISTAN (TIP): A bomb hit a passenger train in Pakistan’s restive southwest on October 20 killing at least six people and wounding more than 17 others, officials said. The device, apparently planted on the […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): Pakistani officials and former prime minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on October 23 denied a report that they had approved US drone strikes on the country’s soil.Washington Post on october 21 quoted leaked secret […]
SANTA ANA, CALIFORNIA (TIP): The blond boy was 10 when he put a gun to the head of his sleeping neo-Nazi father and pulled the trigger. It was over in an instant for Jeff Hall, […]
SAVAR, BANGLADESH (TIP): Orphans who lost their parents when a garment factory complex collapsed in Bangladesh vented their grief and anger at leading western retailers on Thursday as the country marks 6 months of the […]
KATHMANDU (TIP): The Nepal Army was deployed in the country on October 20 to ensure that the November 19 polls happen smoothly. According to army spokesman Brigadier General Jagdish Chandra Pokhrel, the army has been […]
DHAKA (TIP): Rejecting Premier Sheikh Hasina’s proposal for an allparty government to oversee Bangladesh’s next general election, opposition leader Khaleda Zia said her BNP party would not participate in the poll process without a nonparty […]
KABUL (TIP): Afghanistan’s intelligence service on October 21 warned candidates in the 2014 presidential election that mobile phones, computers and cameras given to them as gifts could contain hidden bombs. More than 20 candidates have […]
BANGKOK (TIP): Thai doctors say the supreme patriarch, the head of the country’s Buddhist monks, has died. He was 100. Chulalongkorn hospital doctors say Somdet Phra Nyanasamvara died on October 23 from an infection in […]
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