BANGKOK (TIP): Thousands of royalist protesters fanned out across Thailand’s capital on May 9 to try to bring down a caretaker government after a court threw Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra out of office and an […]
CESANO BOSCONE (TIP): Italy’s Silvio Berlusconi began community service for tax fraud on Friday in a spectacular fall from grace for the flamboyant expremier, who will likely seek political gain from the punishment. The billionaire […]
LONDON (TIP): Russell Brand has accepted a “substantial” but undisclosed sum of damages at the High Court in London from the Sun On Sunday, after the newspaper ran a story claiming that he had been […]
LONDON (TIP): Police officers across London will wear video cameras when responding to emergency calls as part of a year-long pilot project launched on May 8. A total of 500 cameras will routinely collect evidence […]
BEIJING (TIP): The air force of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) of China has trained a group of macaques to help protect an air base close to Beijing. These monkeys have been put here to […]
BEIJING (TIP): China has detained a 70-year old former editor who has won international awards for journalism on charges of leaking state secrets. The journalist, Gao Yu, was “criminally detained on suspicion of providing state […]
LONDON (TIP): Pakistani teenage rights’ activist Malala Yousafzai, who survived being shot in the head by the Taliban, has advised Nigeria’s Boko Haram to “go and learn Islam”, saying the dreaded extremist outfit is “misusing […]
HONG KONG (TIP): Authorities launched an air and sea rescue operation on May 5 to find 11 crew members from a Chinese cargo ship after it collided with another vessel and sank just outside Hong […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Stepping up pressure on Syria, the treasury department on May 8 sanctioned six Syrian officials and a Russian bank for their alleged support of the government of Syrian President Bashar Assad, who has […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): Pakistan should be offered a path to nuclear normalcy in the same way India was accepted into the nuclear club when it negotiated a civil nuclear deal with the US and was brought […]
DHAKA (TIP): A mob of nearly 3,000 attacked Hindu households and a temple in eastern Bangladesh after two youths from the community allegedly insulted the Prophet Muhammad on Facebook. Police on May 5 arrested 17 […]
AAB BAREEK (AFGHANISTAN) (TIP): Aid groups on May 4 rushed to help survivors of a landslide in northern Afghanistan that entombed a village, killing hundreds of people and leaving 700 families homeless in the mountains. […]
KOLKATA (TIP): A day after reports of serious concern expressed in Dhaka’s corridors of power over BJP’s prime ministerial nominee Narendra Modi’s remark that his government would pack off illegal Bangladeshis to that country, there […]
KABUL (TIP): An Afghan official says a roadside bombing has killed three policemen and wounded two in the country’s western Herat province. District police chief Shir Agha Alokozay says the attack took place in the […]
“Rather than debating a new conceptual framework for our foreign policy – more “nationalistic” or resting on an “India first” foundation – we could look at how some concrete issues should be addressed by a […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Conciliation talks between the Centre and Vodafone over a Rs 20,000 crore tax dispute have failed as the British telecom giant has decided to serve an arbitration notice to the government, a […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Indian flyers are soon going to be spoilt for choice and low fares may make a comeback. The Tata Sons’ JV budget airline with Malaysia’s AirAsia got the licence to fly from […]
NEW YORK (TIP): Coca-Cola and PepsiCo said on Monday they’re working to remove a controversial ingredient from all their drinks, including Mountain Dew, Fanta and Powerade. The ingredient, called brominated vegetable oil, had been the […]
SYDNEY (TIP): The Australian agency heading up the search for the missing Malaysian jet has dismissed a claim by a resource survey company that it found possible plane wreckage in the northern Bay of Bengal. […]
LONDON (TIP): A British minister has sought action against scientists in India and China who are allegedly producing dangerous new medicines called “legal highs” to be sold on UK streets. Norman Baker, a UK Home […]
HAVANA (TIP): Cuban musician Juan Formell, who for more than four decades was the driving force behind the big band salsa orchestra Los Van Van, died May 1. He was 71. An anchor on Cuban […]
BEIJING (TIP): Two of the three people killed in a bomb explosion at a railway station in China’s Xinjiang province were terrorists who triggered the blast, officials said indicating they may have been suicide bombers. […]
BEIJING (TIP): A Beijing man is seeking to divorce his wife after she took their son to a tropical island province to escape the capital’s notorious smog, saying the long-distance relationship had destroyed their marriage, […]
DONETSK (UKRAINE) (TIP): Russian President Vladimir Putin said on May 1 that Ukraine should withdraw its military from the eastern and southern regions of the country, a statement that could bolster antigovernment insurgents who are […]
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