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SYDNEY/COLOMBO: The United Nations has expressed “profound concern” about Australia’s handling of asylum seekers amid reports that scores of Sri Lankans will be handed over to their country’s navy after only a brief assessment by […]
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KABUL (TIP): Taliban insurgents fired rockets into Kabul airport on Thursday, destroying the Afghan president’s parked helicopter and damaging three other choppers, officials said, in an attack that underlined security fears in the capital. The […]
DHAKA (TIP): India has agreed to send back Nur Hossain, the prime suspect in a multiple-murder case in Bangladesh, foreign minister AH Mahmood Ali told parliament on July 2. Replying to a query from Jatiya […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): Amid an allout military operation against the Taliban in North Waziristan, Pakistan’s parliament passed a controversial anti-terror law on July 2, giving security forces unbridled powers, including shoot-at-sight suspects involved in terrorism, arson […]
KIEV, UKRAINE (TIP): Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko shook up his faltering military on July 3, appointing a new defense minister and top general while speaking angrily about the years of decay and corruption that left […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): Pakistan launched a ground offensive against militant strongholds near the Afghan border on July 1 after evacuating nearly half a million people from the tribal region, the army said. The ground offensive is […]
KARACHI: Pakistani authorities here have sent a water bill amounting to Pakistani Rs 263,774 to Fatima Jinnah, the sister of the country’s founder Muhammad Ali Jinnah, 47 years after her death. The Karachi Water and […]
BELO HORIZONTE, BRAZIL (TIP): An unfinished overpass being built for the World Cup crashed down on several vehicles in Brazil’s southeastern city of Belo Horizonte on July 3, killing at least two people and injuring […]
LONDON (TIP): Britain had planned to train and equip a 100,000-strong rebel army to defeat Syrian President Bashar al-Assad before it was deemed to be too risky, BBC Newsnight reported on July 3. The BBC […]
LA PAZ (TIP): Bolivian lawmakers have approved child workers as young as 10 years old, under a new law that lays out specific conditions for employing children. Congress passed the measure by consensus on July […]
WELLINGTON (TIP): A New Zealand politician on July 4 recalled how Rolf Harris groped her when she was a radio reporter preparing to interview the now disgraced children’s entertainer in the mid-1980s. Maggie Barry, a […]
BEIJING (TIP): China has ordered schools and government offices in the northwest Xinjiang region to ban fasting during the ongoing holy month of Ramzan. The ban orders are being issued through websites of schools and […]
AIRO (TIP): Egyptian police swiftly quashed Islamist protests marking the first anniversary of the military ouster of president Mohamed Morsi on July 3, firing tear gas and arresting dozens of demonstrators. The protests are seen […]
LONDON (TIP): Late BBC presenter Jimmy Savile sexually abused vulnerable patients in scores of British hospitals over decades and claimed to have performed sex acts on dead bodies, investigators said on June 26. Savile, one […]
BAGHDAD (TIP): Militants took a town an hour from Baghdad that is home to four natural gasfields on June 26, another gain by Sunni insurgents who have swiftly taken large areas to the north and […]
LONDON (TIP): WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange who has been holed up in the Ecuadorean Embassy for over two years is expected to make his London Fashion Week debut this September. Assange will model for Vivienne […]
PARIS (TIP): The United States warned Russia on june 26it had only “hours” to prove it was helping disarm Ukrainian insurgents whose separatist drive has reopened a Cold War-style chasm in East-West ties. US Secretary […]
A total of 276 girls were taken from the Christian northeastern town of Chibok by the rebels in April. The majority of the schoolchildren remain missing, despite international pressure for their safe return — including […]
LONDON (TIP): Investigation reports unveiled to the public for the first time on June 16 confirming that renowned DJ and presenter Jimmy Savile sexually abuse patients in National Health Service hospitals across the UK for […]
BEIJING (TIP): A leading figure of a small citizen movement in southern China was released on bail on June 25, nearly one month after he was taken into police custody, his lawyers said. Wang Aizhong […]
LAHORE, PAKISTAN (TIP): The leader of a Pakistani Islamist organization that was labeled a terror group and slapped with economic sanctions by the United States denied having any links to militancy on June 26 and […]
PESHAWAR (TIP): One person was killed and two others injured when shots were fired at a Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) plane landing at the Peshawar airport on June 22 night. The shots were fired at […]
KATHMANDU (TIP): US doctors treating Nepalese Prime Minister Sushil Koirala have ruled out lung cancer and diagnosed the 75-year-old with tuberculosis, a spokesman for the premier’s Nepali Congress party said on June 26. Koirala travelled […]
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