Wellington (TIP): New Zealand’s parliament has passed legislation giving mothers and their partners the right to paid leave following a miscarriage or still birth, becoming only the second country in the world to do so. […]
Moscow (TIP): Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has suffered back pains and leg problems in prison, his lawyer said Thursday. The lawyer, Olga Volkova, said Navalny’s condition has notably deteriorated in recent days. “He’s suffering […]
Geneva (TIP): African elephants living in forests and savannas are increasingly threatened with extinction, the Red List of species in trouble showed on Thursday, as conservationists called for an urgent end to poaching. The new […]
Jerusalem (TIP): Mansour Abbas, an Arab leader in Israel seems to have emerged as the unusual “kingmaker” whose possible support has split open differences not only in the ruling Likud party, but also in its […]
Kathmandu (TIP): The Nepal government has kicked off preparations for the 12th National Population Census, a government official said. Pushparaj Kadel, vice-chairman of the National Planning Commission told Xinhua news agency that this Census is […]
Islamabad (TIP) : At least five members of a family were killed by an avalanche that hit their home in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir on Thursday. The snow slip swept away the house far away from where […]
Colombo (TIP): Faced with pressure from its electoral allies in Tamil Nadu and the need to maintain long-term ties with Colombo, India today abstained from a UN Human Right Council resolution on Sri Lanka. The […]
Dhaka (TIP): Hasina has in the past survived several assassination attempts with the first in 1975 when a military coup killed her Father and Bangladesh’s founder Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman along with most of his […]
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said that fugitive businessmen Vijay Mallya, Nirav Modi and Mehul Choksi are “coming back” to India to face the law. The government is pursuing extradition of Vijay Mallya and Nirav Modi […]
In its latest update on Friday, March 19, morning, the University’s Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) revealed that the current global caseload and death toll stood at 121,714,255 and 2,689,898, respectively. The US […]
The US government has threatened new sanctions against companies involved in the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, urging them to pull out of the German-Russian project. The US State Department “reiterates its warning that any […]
Brussels (TIP): With summer looming and tourism-reliant countries anxiously waiting for the return of a steady influx of tourism income amid the coronavirus pandemic, the European Union’s executive body presented a proposal March 18 that […]
London (TIP): Burglars, thieves and robbers released from prison will be made to wear GPS tags to track their movements in a world-first scheme to crack down on neighbourhood criminals, the UK government announced on […]
London (TIP): Hollywood star Johnny Depp will seek permission on Thursday to appeal against his defeat in a London libel case last year over a tabloid article that labelled him a wife beater. High Court […]
Johannesburg (TIP): South Africa has been ranked as the world’s most dangerous country to drive in while India came in at a fourth place, according to a research study undertaken by international driver education company […]
Beijing (TIP): China foiled criminals seeking to smuggle nearly 1 million tonnes of refined oil worth 5 billion yuan ($770 million), with officials seizing 11 ships and detaining 171 suspects in a sprawling swoop on […]
Nakuru (Kenya) (TIP): President John Magufuli of Tanzania, a prominent Covid-19 skeptic in Africa whose populist rule often cast his East African country in a harsh international spotlight, has died. He was 61. Magufuli’s death […]
Myanmar (TIP): Myanmar faced growing isolation on Thursday with increasingly limited internet services and its last private newspaper ceasing publication as the military built its case against ousted elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi. Nobel […]
Kabul (TIP): A helicopter crash overnight has taken the lives of at least nine Afghan military personnel in a central province, the defence ministry said Thursday. In a statement, it said that four crew members […]
Jakarta (TIP): Ifa Hanifah Misbach was 19 when her father died – and her family told her he would not go to heaven because she refused to wear the hijab, a Muslim head covering. Misbach […]
Islamabad (TIP): Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Friday received the first shot of vaccination against COVID-19 and urged the citizens of his country to ensure the full implementation of norms to prevent the surge […]
Will shift focus to Indo-Pacific in post-Brexit review NEW DELHI (TIP): UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson will visit India at the end of April, his first major international tour after London’s exit from the EU. […]
India’s External Affairs Ministers S Jaishankar made a strong statement in the Parliament that set the tone for the ensuing period of Indo-UK relations Jaishankar’s statement came after a question about racism in the UK […]
Paris (TIP): Activists laid flowers near the Iranian Embassy in Paris on Monday to show support to a women’s rights campaigner sentenced to prison after handing out flowers to women on the Tehran metro while […]
Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso) (TIP): A series of explosions at military barracks in Equatorial Guinea killed at least 20 persons and wounded more than 600 others, the authorities said. President Teodoro Obiang Nguema said the explosion […]
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