STOCKHOLM (TIP): Sweden’s main airport was paralyzed on Wednesday due to a snow storm in the country’s capital, just as winners of this year’s Nobel prizes were to arrive to receive their awards. Around 30 […]
The list mostly includes US and European countries but China’s neighbours in South Asia, including India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Myanmar and Sri Lanka are missing BEIJING (TIP): China announced a 72-hour visa free stay in Beijing […]
With more than 700,000 Russians behind bars, there have been frequent complaints of sub-standard living conditions, torture, and disease in the prisons MOSCOW (TIP): A prison in Russia’s Urals region where inmates rioted last month […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): The United States has refuted the Iranian claim that it has captured an American drone after it entered its airspace. “We have no evidence that the Iranian claims are true,” the White House […]
Rescuers are still looking for at least 377 missing people and seeking help for more than 1,79,000 others who are sheltered in schools, gyms and other buildings PHILIPPINES (TIP): Nearly 2,00,000 people were homeless and […]
DOHA (TIP): India is fighting an increasingly difficult battle to prevent the principle of equity from being junked from the platform of negotiations at the crucial climate change talks here, as certain powerful blocs seek […]
GUATEMALA CITY (TIP): Guatemalan police arrested U.S. software guru John McAfee for illegally entering the country and said it would expel him to neighboring Belize, which he fled after being sought for questioning over his […]
India says it is aware that the sovereignty of many parts of South China Sea is disputed, but it supports freedom of navigation, right of passage and access to resources NEW DELHI/BEIJING (TIP): Unfazed by […]
SEATTLE (TIP): Legal marijuana possession becomes a reality under Washington state law on Thursday, and some people planned to celebrate the new law by breaking it. Voters in Washington and Colorado last month made those […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): India’s growing soft power has got a brief toehold in the world’s hardball capital. Madame Tussauds, the famed wax gallery, unveiled on Tuesday the molded likeness of Bollywood’s best in an intensely political […]
MONROE, GEORGIA (TIP): The woman who was listed as the world’s oldest person died Tuesday in a Georgia nursing home at age 116. Besse Cooper died peacefully on Tuesday afternoon in Monroe, according to her […]
PARIS (TIP): A French court has ordered the liquidation of the text service of the Sipa news agency, and bankruptcy protection for its photo service. Sipa announced the decision Thursday by the Paris commercial court. […]
ONCUPINAR, TURKEY (TIP): Syrian refugees wait in line for food at a Turkish refugee camp — not crowding around an aid truck but queuing at an ordinary supermarket to pay for goods using electronic debit […]
OSLO (TIP): An Indian software professional and his wife, who were convicted for “serious child abuse” of their seven-year-old son, have filed an appeal in a higher court in Norway. Chandrasekhar Vallabhaneni and his wife […]
GAZA (TIP): Hamas’s exiled leader will step onto Palestinian land for the first time in 45 years on Friday for a “victory rally” in the Gaza Strip, displaying his newfound confidence after last month’s conflict […]
LONDON (TIP): An Indian-origin mother who beat her son “like a dog” for not being able to memorize passages of the Quran, has been found guilty by a British court of murdering him and setting […]
LONDON (TIP): The Indian high commission in London is considering lodging a firm protest with the British foreign office about yet another failure on the part of the London metropolitan police to provide protection to […]
LONDON: British police say they have arrested a man in his 60s in connection to the broad investigation into child sex abuse spurred by the Jimmy Savile case. The man has not been identified. Police […]
MOSCOW (TIP): A television news presenter aged 28 was shot dead in a city centre in Russia’s volatile North Caucasus, the latest deadly attack against a journalist in the region, officials said on Thursday. Meanwhile […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Republican leaders in the US House of Representatives on Wednesday said talks with President Barack Obama to resolve the fiscal cliff are deadlocked, and they demanded a meeting with the president to move […]
LONDON (TIP): Britain will press its European partners next week to amend the arms embargo on Syria to allow them to provide weapons to rebels fighting the regime, Europe minister David Lidington said on Thursday. […]
ROME (TIP): The centre-right party of former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi will abstain in a confidence vote in the lower house of parliament on Thursday, a party official said, heightening the risk of a […]
BEIJING (TIP): “Thank you. I’m well. Don’t worry,” read the post on a Chinese social networking site. The brief comment, published in June, appeared to come from Ling Gu, the 23-year-old son of a highpowered […]
BANGKOK (TIP): Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra on Wednesday easily survived a noconfidence vote orchestrated by her opponents in parliament who accused her of failing to crack down on graft. Yingluck, Thailand’s first female premier, […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): India, Indonesia and Australia will form the first “troika” to confer on the Indian Ocean, a first step towards a trilateral grouping in Asia. This new engagement is believed to be significant […]
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