LONDON (TIP): Armed Forces personnel from across the United Kingdom have celebrated the Indian festival of Raksha Bandhan. The event was held at the Shree Swaminarayan Mandir in London on August 18. Speaking at the […]
VIENNA (TIP): Police say that a man attacked passengers on a train in western Austria, seriously wounding two people. The assault occurred early Tuesday near the village of Sulz, in westernmost Vorarlberg province. Police say […]
ANKARA (TIP): Turkey issued a decree on August 17 paving the way for the conditional release of 38,000 prisoners, the justice minister said, an apparent move to reduce its prison population to make space for […]
LONDON (TIP): Britain may remain a member of the European Union (EU) until 2019, a year longer than previously estimated, a media report said on Sunday. Prime Minister Theresa May has been expected to enact […]
A 10-year-old Indian-origin girl has been crowned as Britain’s brightest child after she won a popular television quiz competition in the UK. Rhea shot ahead in Tuesday’s final of ‘Child Genius 2016’ on Channel 4 […]
DOVER (TIP): British holidaymakers spent hours sweating in their cars as 15-hour queues snaked back from the port of Dover on July 23 due to heightened entry checks by French border police. Stationary vehicles tailed […]
LONDON (Wire Services) A UK-based Sikh charity has won widespread praise for taking proactive action in distributing bottles of water to passengers stranded at a UK border crossing over the weekend. Khalsa Aid volunteers swung […]
BERLIN (TIP): Prime Minister Theresa May made her first overseas trip as Britain’s leader on July 20 to meet German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who will be a key figure in negotiating Britain’s exit from the […]
PARIS (TIP): The truck driver who killed 84 people on a Nice beachfront had accomplices and appears to have been plotting his attack for months, the Paris prosecutor said on July 21. Prosecutor Francois Molins […]
The attempted coup by the armed forces in Turkey has been foiled. The Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan communicated via social media to address the country. President Erdogan, an avowed enemy of social media who […]
Three weeks after a majority of Britons voted in a referendum to leave the European Union, the British political landscape looks entirely different. David Cameron, who called the referendum, is no more the Prime Minister. […]
NICE (TIP): France was hit again with a “monstrous” terror attack. Scores of people were killed Thursday, July 14 night when a large truck ploughed through a Bastille Day crowd in Nice, France, in what […]
LONDON (TIP): In her first public remarks, June 13, the new British Prime Minister Theresa May struck a populist tone, saying she planned to continue predecessor David Cameron’s “true legacy” of social justice. The Conservative […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): India shares France’s pain, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Thursday morning, strongly condemning the horrific terror attack in Nice that has killed 84 people and left scores injured, several critically. “Appalled by […]
British Prime Minister David Cameron is expediting his departure from 10 Downing Street, paving the way for Home Secretary Theresa May to take the reins and steer the country out of EU. Theresa May promised […]
LONDON: A 27-year-old UK woman named Isis was denied access to her Facebook account and asked to send an identity proof by the social networking site as part of its stringent policy to erase all […]
LONDON (TIP): Britain is poised to get its first woman Prime Minister in more than a quarter of a century since Margaret Thatcher as the race to succeed David Cameron after the Brexit vote narrowed […]
BERLIN (TIP): German lawmakers passed a bill on July 7 that will make it easier for victims of sex crimes to file criminal complaints if they rejected their attacker’s advances with a clear “no”. The […]
It was certainly a black Friday – not the kind that we are used to after thanksgiving holiday – for the stock markets. The reason for that was not some economic news but rather political […]
LONDON (TIP): Britain’s powerful home secretary Theresa May on June 30 launched her bid to succeed Prime Minister David Cameron, saying the country needs strong proven leadership to negotiate the best possible terms for the […]
LONDON (TIP): The race to become Britain’s next prime minister took a dramatic last-minute turn with former London mayor Boris Johnson —considered a frontrunner — ruling himself out of the race after the defection of […]
ISTANBUL (TIP): Turkish media have named a one-armed Chechen warlord as the mastermind behind the Istanbul Ataturk Airport massacre. The shocking triple suicide bombing on Tuesday, 28th June, claimed the lives of 43 people – […]
VIERNHEIM, GERMANY (TIP): A masked man took hostages at a cinema in western Germany on June 23 before police stormed the complex and shot him dead, police said. No other people were injured, a police […]
LONDON (TIP): The 41-year-old Labour politician was attacked earlier Thursday, June 16 in the village of Birstall, within the region she represents, and later died of her injuries. The BBC reports that Cox was both […]
LONDON (TIP): Brexit campaigners accused the government of trying to rig the EU referendum and threatened legal action on June 9 as former London mayor Boris Johnson squared up for the campaign’s first TV debate. […]
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