SEOUL (TIP): North Korean leader Kim Jong Un expressed his unwavering support for Russia’s war in Ukraine during a meeting with a top Russian security official in Pyongyang, North Korean state media said Saturday. Friday’s […]
ROME (TIP): Pope Francis is recovering well from pneumonia and a “new stage” in his pontificate is opening, two of his closest advisers said Friday, offering notes of optimism as the 88-year-old pontiff hit the […]
CAIRO (TIP): When the first explosions in Gaza this week started around 1:30 a.m., a visiting British doctor went to the balcony of a hospital in Khan Younis and watched the streaks of missiles light […]
LONDON (TIP): The first plane landed at Heathrow Airport late Friday, about 18 hours after an inferno at an electrical substation caused a power outage that shuttered Europe’s busiest air travel hub. The British Airways […]
TORONTO (TIP): Prime Minister Mark Carney looks set to avoid the embarrassment of facing a no-confidence motion in less than a fortnight of assuming the office. He is expected to call on the Governor-General this […]
BUENOS AIRES (TIP): Buenos Aires and women’s cricket! Amazing! Isn’t it? Until a few years ago, it would have sounded only like a fantasy. Argentina is better known for its soccer and field hockey in […]
Mithi, Pakistan (TIP): In a desert town in Pakistan, Hindus prepare meals for fasting Muslims, who in turn gather to welcome a Holi procession, a rare moment of religious solidarity in the Islamic nation. Discrimination […]
Yangon, Myanmar (TIP): The World Food Programme will be forced to cut off one million people in war-torn Myanmar from its vital food aid because of “critical funding shortfalls”, it said on Friday. The United […]
MACH (TIP): Hostages freed from a train siege in southwestern Pakistan on Tuesday said they walked for hours through mountainous terrain to reach safety, forced to leave behind relatives from whom they were separated. Militants […]
Manila, Philippines (TIP): Former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte’s deadly war on drugs has always faced strong opposition on the home front. This week, he was arrested and transferred to the International Criminal Court at The […]
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (TIP): At least 31 people have died from more than 1,500 cholera cases in Ethiopia’s Gambella region over the past month, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) warned on March 14, saying the outbreak […]
TAIPEI (TIP): Representatives of China, Russia and Iran called on March 14 for an end to US sanctions on Iran over its rapidly advancing nuclear program and a restart to multinational talks on the issue. […]
GENEVA (TIP): Iran increasingly relies on electronic surveillance and the public to inform on women refusing to wear the country’s mandatory headscarf in public, even as hard-liners push for harsher penalties for those protesting the […]
GENEVA (TIP): Russia has committed the crimes against humanity of enforced disappearances and torture in its war in Ukraine — part of a systematic attack on civilians, a United Nations investigation has concluded. The new […]
GAZA (TIP): Hamas on March 14 said it was ready to free an Israeli-American hostage and the remains of four other dual nationals, after the Palestinian militants and Israel gathered for indirect Gaza ceasefire talks. […]
Mark Carney never accepted any interim political position in the jinxed Justin Trudeau government. Instead, he chose the hard way of bagging the party leadership position through an open, transparent and democratic election process that […]
OTTAWA (TIP): Mark Carney, who was sworn in as Canada’s 24th Prime Minister on Friday, has three citizenships: Canada, Ireland, and Great Britain. He has already initiated steps to renounce the last two. Earlier, Justin […]
BANGKOK (TIP): Myanmar’s junta chief said the country would hold an election in December or January, the first in the war-torn nation since the military staged a coup in 2021. “We are planning to hold […]
COLOMBO (TIP): Deshabandu Tennakoon, theoretically still the island nation’s police chief, is being treated as a fugitive and his team members are on a trail to arrest him, police spokesman Buddhika Manathunga said here on […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): The Pakistan government has set March 31 as the deadline for Afghan Citizen Card (ACCs) holders to leave Pakistan voluntarily as part of a plan to repatriate all illegal foreigners, according to an […]
HANOI (TIP): Vietnam is planning to merge provinces and eliminate district-level authorities, the government said March 6, as a streamlining drive aiming to slash billions of dollars from state budgets gathers pace. The cost-cutting measures […]
ROME (TIP): A weak and breathless Pope Francis thanked people for their prayers for his recovery in a remarkable audio message broadcast March 6, the first public sign of life from the 88-year-old pope since […]
SEOUL (TIP): A South Korean court on March 7 ordered impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol to be released from jail, more than a month after he was arrested and indicted over his short-lived imposition of […]
LATAKIA (TIP): Clashes between Syrian security forces under the country’s new, Islamist authorities and gunmen loyal to ousted President Bashar Assad in Syria’s western coastal region have killed more than 70 people and left an […]
DOBROPILLIA (TIP): Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on March 8 called for more sanctions against Russia as overnight strikes killed at least 14 people and wounded dozens more, days ahead of talks between US and Ukrainian […]
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