COLOMBO (TIP): A human rights group on Thursday urged Sri Lanka to formally charge or release four university students detained on allegations of terrorism for honoring Tamil Tiger rebels who died during the country’s bloody […]
HERAT (TIP): A roadside bomb targeting a police pickup truck killed two policemen and five civilians in southwestern Afghanistan Thursday, provincial authorities said. The vehicle was blown up in the city of Zaranj, the capital […]
DHAKA, BANGLADESH (TIP): A general strike to demand that Muslim-majority Bangladesh ban Islamic political parties has shut down schools and stores and disrupted traffic in Dhaka, the capital. A coalition of five leftist parties was […]
KABUL (TIP): A car bomb exploded outside of a compound housing a US military contractor in Kabul the Afghan capital on Monday, blowing apart an exterior wall, killing at least two Afghan workers and wounding […]
YANGON (MYANMAR) (TIP): Myanmar’s government has formally apologized to the country’s Buddhist monks for its recent crackdown on protesters at a copper mine that injured more than 100 of their monastic colleagues. President’s Office Minister […]
KHARTOUM (TIP): Thirty-three people were killed and twenty four injured when two inter-city buses collided in Sudan in one of the country’s worst road accidents in years, police said. The crash between a full-sized passenger […]
KATHMANDU (TIP): The world’s highest mountain should not be hard to spot but American space agency Nasa has admitted it mistook a summit in India for Mount Everest, which straddles the border of Nepal and […]
KABUL (TIP): Defense secretary Leon Panetta says Afghan President Hamid Karzai has accepted an invitation from President Barack Obama to meet in Washington. Panetta said at a joint news conference with Karzai that the meeting […]
KABUL (TIP): US defense secretary Leon Panetta, who has flown to Afghanistan for talks with President Hamid Karzai, says President Barack Obama will decide in the next few weeks how many US troops will after […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): A majority of Pakistani parliamentarians and politicians, including President Asif Ali Zardari, are tax dodgers, a report on rampant tax evasion among the country’s political elite has revealed. The Centre for Investigative Reporting […]
LOEMFONTEIN, SOUTH AFRICA (TIP): South African President Jacob Zuma on Dec 13 honoured anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela, who has been hospitalized since the weekend and who the president said is recovering from a lung infection. […]
CARACAS, VENEZUELA (TIP): Somber confidants of President Hugo Chavez say he is going through a difficult recovery after cancer surgery in Cuba, and one close ally is warning Venezuelans that their leader may not make […]
LONDON (TIP): A nurse at the hospital treating Prince William’s pregnant wife Catherine was found hanging in her room after being duped by a hoax call from an Australian radio station, an inquest heard on […]
SEOUL (TIP): Hundreds of thousands of North Koreans held a mass rally on Friday to celebrate the nuclear-armed state’s rocket launch, as its youthful leader vowed new launches in defiance of US-led outrage. Days before […]
BAMAKO (TIP): The troubled nation of Mali swore in a new interim prime minister on Thursday, just days after soldiers behind this year’s military coup arrested his predecessor and forced his resignation. Diango Cissoko officially […]
BEIJING (TIP): A day after China’s top leader Xi Jinping asked the People’s Liberation Army to intensify its “real combat” awareness and “military readiness” in view of its tension with Japan over disputed islands, Japan […]
LONDON (TIP): News Corporation’s UK newspaper unit, embroiled in the aftermath of a phone hacking scandal, lost another highranking executive on Wednesday when the editor of The Times of London announced he would quit. The […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): Pakistan has extended refugee status for over a million Afghans in the country by an additional six months, the government announced, a move likely to ease fears of Afghans living in Pakistan that […]
MADRID (TIP): Spain announced on Thursday it had seized 28 million euros ($37 million) in financial products, luxury cars and buildings linked to ousted Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak. Egypt requested Spain’s help under UN anti-corruption […]
CAIRO (TIP): The latest crisis to sweep Egypt has inflicted considerable damage and now threatens the country’s transition to -democracy. The rules of political competition have not been followed and politics has veered towards violence, […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): An Indian software consultant, on a work visa in the US, was convicted by a Chicago court on December 14 of groping a woman while they were seated next to each other aboard […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): Lashkar-e-Taiba founder Hafiz Mohammad Saeed has criticized foreign minister Hina Rabbani Khar for promising to take action against him if India provides evidence, saying the Pakistan government had been unable to resolve outstanding […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): Disgraced nuclear scientist A Q Khan’s Tehrik-e-Tahaffuz Pakistan party has asked the Election Commission to allot a missile as its election symbol. The party sent the request to the Election Commission a week […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): At least two Pakistani soldiers were killed and four others injured today during an attempt by a pair of suicide bombers in an explosives-laden vehicle to blow up an army camp in the […]
Gets status of non-member observer state India votes for resolution; US, Israel oppose bid UNITED NATIONS (TIP): Palestine overwhelmingly won, November 30, a historic UN General Assembly vote which will upgrade its status to nonmember […]
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