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, […]
KANSAS CITY (MISSOURI) (TIP): A Missouri man, criticized after he killed an albino deer that had been a community favorite, said on December 11 he would have the aging animal stuffed and would give away […]
GENEVA (TIP): A clinical trial of an Ebola vaccine developed by Merck and NewLink has been halted temporarily as a precautionary measure after four patients complained of joint pains, the University of Geneva Hospital said […]
BELGIUM (TIP): There are few things people agree on in linguistically divided Belgium, but an effort to get Belgian potato fries recognized as global cultural heritage and put it on a par with Peking opera […]
LONDON (TIP): America’s closest allies – Britain has strongly condemned the Central Intelligence Agency’s (CIA) use of brutality and deception to interrogate “terror suspects” post-9/11 attacks as made public by a Senate Intelligence Committee report. […]
BEIJING (TIP): Chinese social media users have pulled out details of the December 2012 Nirbhaya case in New Delhi to draw comparisons with assault and molestation of a woman in Henan province in central China. […]
BEIRUT (TIP): A correspondent working for Al Jazeera Arabic died while covering battles in southern Syria, the pan-Arab news network said on its website on December 11. He was the fourth Syrian journalist to die […]
CAPE TOWN (TIP): South Africa will increase diesel and gas imports and sign a private sector coal-fired power plant deal as it seeks to stem chronic electricity shortages, the cabinet said on December 12. South […]
LONDON ()TIP): Around 423 criminals from India are presently living in Britain. Data revealed by Britain’s National Audit Office has shown that as of March 2014, 10,650 criminals from overseas have been living in UK. […]
LONDON (TIP): A 73-year-old Indianorigin man,who headed an extremist Maoist sect in the UK, was on Thursday charged for enslaving three women in his home here for 30 years.Aravindan Balakrishnan is charged with 25 offences […]
MOSCOW (TIP): Russia’s richest man says he is returning a Nobel prize he bought at auction for $4.7 million just days ago to the man who put it on the block: controversial American geneticist James […]
Afghanistan was blunder: Musharraf KARACHI (TIP): Former military ruler General Pervez Musharraf on December 4 admitted that recognizing the Taliban regime in Afghanistan was a “blunder” on part of Pakistan, but he blamed the West […]
KATHMANDU (TIP): Hindu devotees slaughtered an estimated 200,000 animals during a recent festival in Nepal, organizers said on December 2, attributing a sharp fall in numbers to Indian export restrictions. Some 2.5 million worshippers from […]
QUETTA, PAKISTAN (TIP): A bomb in restive southwest Pakistan on December 4 killed at least one person and wounded eight others, including two schoolchildren, officials said. The blast on the outskirts of Quetta, the capital […]
KUNDUZ (AFGHANISTAN) (TIP): A suicide attack at a funeral in northern Afghanistan killed at least nine people on December 2, officials said, underlining nationwide insecurity as Nato troops end their 13-year war this month. The […]
LONDON (TIP): Sophie and Manon Serrano might be taken for sisters. The mother, 38, and daughter, 20, are the same height, have long, dark hair and are besties, too. They walked arm in arm into […]
IYER HEATH (ENGLAND) (TIP): James Bond will take on a sinister organization with links to his past in the next installment of the blockbuster spy series, which star director Sam Mendes said on December 5 […]
BEIRUT (TIP): ISIS militants have launched an attack overnight on a major military air base in eastern Syria in what looked to be a push to eliminate the last significant government outpost in the extremist-dominated […]
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