WASHINGTON (TIP): Representatives of US-led Nato and Russia have agreed to meet to discuss the Ukraine issue in signs that the Cold War opponents are stepping back after drawing red lines on how far the […]
BUFFALO (TIP): The bitterly cold weather that currently has much of the east coast of America in its icy grip has demonstrated its chilling intensity by partially freezing Niagra Falls for the second time in […]
KATHMANDU (TIP): Climbers scaling Mount Everest will have to bring back eight kilograms (17.6 pounds) of garbage under new rules designed to clean up the world’s highest peak, a Nepalese official said on Monday. The […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): A Pakistani anti-terrorism court on march 6 issued a non-bailable arrest warrant against former President Pervez Musharraf to secure his presence in the hearing in the Benazir Bhutto assassination case. The court in […]
BAGHDAD (TIP): Bombings mainly targeting Shiite areas of Baghdad and attacks on security force checkpoints in and around the capital killed at least 21 people Wednesday, officials said. Iraq has been hit by a year-long […]
KABUL (TIP): Afghan president’s elder brother is dropping out of the April 5 presidential race and throwing his support behind the country’s former foreign minister, a campaign official said march 5. The official, who asked […]
LONDON (TIP): One in every three women in the European Union have admitted to experiencing either physical or sexual violence from the age of 15. The European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights says this corresponds […]
COLOMBO (TIP): A Sri Lankan family has stumbled upon the remains of at least nine bodies buried in the garden of their home, police said Saturday, the latest mass grave to be discovered in the […]
LA PAZ (TIP): Carnival festivities in Bolivia left 70 people dead, most of them in road accidents but at least 15 in acts of violence, the government said march 5. Four days of partying at […]
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SAN FRANCISCO (TIP): A California businessman was convicted on Wednesday of stealing DuPont trade secrets to help a stateowned Chinese company develop a white pigment used in a wide range of products. In a San […]
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VADODARA (TIP): The wife of one of the two Indians who were allegedly confined in a guest house in Iran’s Zanjan city by a private firm has decided to meet Congress president Sonia Gandhi and […]
MELBOURNE (TIP): An Indian doctor, convicted of sexually assaulting a teenage patient while working at an Australian hospital, has lost his bid to stay in the country. A federal court judge dismissed Suhail Durani’s plea […]
LONDON (TIP): In a landmark vote, the European parliament has voted in favor of a resolution to criminalize the purchase of sex. On February 26, 343 members of the European Parliament backed a proposal placed […]
BRUSSELS (TIP): Nato has registered a first in its long history, with five women among the defense ministers who turned up on Wednesday to attend a policy—making meeting at the alliance’s headquarters. The latest woman […]
LONDON: A large number of men in Britain are now becoming victims of domestic violence. Each year, at least 1.2 million women become victims of domestic violence. Around 784,000 men have now been found to […]
BEIJING (TIP): A man in a smog- ridden northern city has become the first person in China to sue the government for failing to curb air pollution, a state-run newspaper reported on February 26. China’s […]
BANGKOK (TIP): Thailand’s anticorruption agency is to bring charges of negligence against Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra on Thursday as antigovernment protesters demand her ouster in a violence-pocked standoff that is slipping out of control. Intermittent […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): US secretary of state John Kerry on February 26 compared tough new anti—gay laws enacted in Uganda to anti—Semitic legislation in Nazi Germany or apartheid in South Africa. “You could change the focus […]
AMMAN: Jordan warned on Wednesday that it might review a 1994 peace treaty with Israel after Israeli MPs began a debate on allowing Jewish prayers at Jerusalem’s sensitive Al—Aqsa mosque compound. “If Israel wants to […]
LONDON (TIP): Pakistan is all set to beat India in becoming an associate member at Cern ( European Organization for Nuclear Research), the world’s largest particle physics laboratory that recently found the God Particle. A […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): The minority Hindu community in Pakistan is struggling to protect its temples and the land around them from the land mafia, a media report said on Wednesday. Most of the Hindu inhabitants migrated […]
COLOMBO (TIP): Eighty skeletal remains have been dug out of a mass grave in a former LTTE stronghold in Sri Lanka, fuelling speculation that the bodies are of Tamil civilians who disappeared during the war […]
DHAKA (TIP): Bangladesh protested on Sunday to India about the “distortion” of historical facts regarding the 1971 Liberation War in the new Indian film ” Gunday” and requested authorities to stop its screening. “The government […]
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