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, […]
PESHAWAR/ISLAMABAD (TIP): The former interim chief of the Pakistani Taliban was among 50 militants, including 36 foreign fighters, killed in heavy air strikes in the lawless North Waziristan region, military sources said on January 24. […]
KABUL, AFGHANISTAN (TIP): Afghanistan’s president demanded on January 21 that the United States no longer carry out military operations or air strikes and must jump-start peace talks with the Taliban before his country signs a […]
PESHAWAR (TIP): At least six Pakistani tribal policemen, escorting a Spanish cyclist, were on January 24 killed and the tourist critically injured as militants tried to abduct him in the highly volatile southwest Balochistan province. […]
KATHMANDU (TIP): Strike by doctors in Nepal to push for reforms in medical education entered the third day on January 22 despite the Supreme Court ordering them to resume services in hospitals across the country. […]
SINGAPORE (TIP): Rattled by the December 8 riots in Little India, the Singapore government now plans a nationwide restriction on consumption of liquor in public places. Deputy PM Teo Chee Hean, who also handles home […]
KIEV (UKRAINE) (TIP): Ukrainian opposition leaders issued a stark ultimatum to President Viktor Yanukovych on January 22 to call early elections within 24 hours or face more popular rage, after at least two protesters were […]
BANGUI (TIP): Seven people died in inter-religious attacks and reprisal killings in Central African Republic’s capital Bangui on January 22, a human rights campaigner said, underlining the challenge the new interim president faces in restoring […]
NEW YORK, NY (TIP): The Permanent Mission of India to the United Nations hosted the traditional Republic Day reception on Thursday, January 23, with President of the General Assembly John Ashe. Permanent Representative Ambassador Asoke […]
MONTREUX (SWITZERLAND) (TIP): Peace talks intended to carve a path out of Syria’s civil war got off to a rocky start on January 23 as a bitter clash over President Bashar Assad’s future threatened to […]
LONDON (TIP): A university in the UK has become the first public varsity in the world to allow students to pay their tuition fees with the digital currency bitcoin. Students at Cumbria University attending two […]
LONDON (TIP): Five terror suspects, including the one who allegedly plotted a Mumbai style attack in London, are set to be freed within days. Restrictions on their movements under the Terrorism Prevention Investigation Measure (T-PIM) […]
LONDON (TIP): Britain’s newspapers were on Wednesday left mystified by their French counterparts’ reluctance to quiz President Francois Hollande over claims of an affair, concluding “they do things differently” across the Channel. Britain’s rowdy media […]
LONDON (TIP): Britain has granted asylum to an atheist from Afghanistan due to fears he would be prosecuted back home, in what is believed to be the first case of its kind, his lawyers said […]
BEIJING (TIP): Chinese police said eight people have been arrested in connection to an explosion which killed 15 people at a gambling site in Kaili City of southwest China’s Guizhou Province. It has not cited […]
LONDON (TIP): Veteran British presenter Dave Lee Travis sexually assaulted young women while live on television and in his radio studio, prosecutors told his trial on January 14. The 68-year-old former BBC star, one of […]
LONDON (TIP): Britain is recruiting an army of amateur historians to sift through more than 1.5 million pages of diaries written by World War I army officers, published online for the first time 100 years […]
BEIJING (TIP): Chinese President Xi Jinping said that the drive to curb corruption in public life will become harsher and “all dirty hands will be caught”. The President called corruption a disease that has to […]
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