JERUSALEM (TIP): Israel’s far-right national security minister visited Jerusalem’s most sensitive holy site on July 18 morning, threatening to disrupt Gaza cease-fire talks. Itamar Ben-Gvir, an ultranationalist settler leader, said he had gone up to […]
MOSCOW(TIP): Russia downed 33 Ukrainian aerial drones overnight over Crimea and 10 naval drones that were heading for the peninsula, Moscow’s defence ministry said on July 18. “Air defence systems on duty destroyed and intercepted […]
LONDON (TIP): Discontented, economically squeezed voters have turned against sitting governments on both right and left during many of the dozens of elections held this year, as global power blocs shift and political certainties crumble. […]
PARIS (TIP): After months of anticipation, Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo took a dip in the long-polluted Seine River on July 17, fulfilling a promise to show the river was clean enough to host open swimming […]
BEIJING (TIP): At least 16 people were killed after a fire broke out at a shopping mall in southwest China’s Sichuan Province. The incident occurred on July 17 around 6 pm at the 14-story building, […]
PARIS (TIP): A police officer was wounded in a knife attack in Paris on July 18 in the high-end Champs-Elysees neighborhood and the assailant was shot and died of his injuries, authorities said, just days […]
STRASBOURG (TIP): Lawmakers at the European Parliament on July 18 re-elected Ursula von der Leyen to a second 5-year term as president of the European Union’s executive commission. The re-election ensures leadership continuity for the […]
TUGUEGARAO (TIP): A bus collided with a pickup truck killing 11 people and injuring six others in a northern Philippine town on July 11. Those who died were riding the small truck as it was […]
BEIJING (TIP): China accused NATO on July 11 of seeking security at the expense of others and told the alliance not to bring the same “chaos” to Asia, a reflection of its determination to oppose […]
JOHANNESBURG (TIP): Twelve children were killed in South Africa early July 10 when a minibus taking them to school near Johannesburg overturned and caught fire after being hit by another vehicle, the government said. The […]
Gaza (TIP):Israeli forces launched more deadly strikes across Gaza on July 10, according to medical sources and the military, which said it targeted Hamas militants operating from inside a UN agency building. The Israeli army […]
MOSCOW (TIP): Russia on July 11 added opposition figure Yulia Navalnaya to its list of “terrorists” and “extremists,” two days after it issued an arrest warrant for the exiled dissident. Navalnaya has vowed to continue […]
GAZA (TIP): Palestinians returned to breathtaking scenes of destruction in the Gaza City district of Shijaiyah after Israeli troops withdrew, ending a two-week offensive there. Civil defense workers said on July 11 that so far, […]
BELGRADE (TIP): An attacker with a crossbow wounded a Serbian police officer guarding the Israeli Embassy in Belgrade on July 1, Serbia’s interior ministry said. The officer responded by fatally shooting the assailant. Both Serbian […]
BEIJING (TIP): Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday highlighted the relevance of the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence, which gained traction with the Non-Aligned Movement, to end the present-day conflicts and sought to expand influence […]
NAIROBI (TIP): At least 30 people died in protests in Kenya this week sparked by a government drive to substantially raise taxes in the East African country, Human Rights Watch said on July 1. “Kenyan […]
NAIROBI (TIP): Kenyan President William Ruto said July 3 he won’t sign into law a finance bill proposing new taxes, a day after protesters stormed parliament and several people were shot dead. It was the […]
RAFAH (TIP): Displaced Palestinian families in Gaza’s south have fled what they said was intensifying Israeli fire in northern areas of Rafah to seek shelter elsewhere, describing a chaotic night as the sounds of fighting […]
NOUAKCHOTT (TIP): Mauritanians go to the polls to decide whether to re-elect President Mohamed Ould Cheikh El Ghazouani as head of the vast desert state, seen as a rock of relative stability in the volatile […]
NAIROBI (TIP): Kenyan President William Ruto said on June 26 he won’t sign into law a finance bill proposing new taxes, a day after protesters stormed parliament and several people were shot dead. It was […]
BEIJING (TIP): Former Chinese defense minister Li Shangfu was expelled from the ruling Communist Party and is being investigated for corruption and bribery, the official Xinhua news agency reported on June 27. The Defense Ministry […]
DEIR AL-BALAH (TIP): Children in sandals trudge through water contaminated with sewage and scale growing mounds of garbage in Gaza’s crowded tent camps for displaced families. People relieve themselves in burlap-covered pits, with nowhere nearby […]
LA PAZ, BOLIVIA (TIP): Led by a top general vowing to “restore democracy,” armored vehicles rammed the doors of Bolivia’s government palace on June 26 in what the president called a coup attempt, then quickly […]
CANBERRA (TIP): WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange returned to his homeland Australia aboard a charter jet and raised a celebratory clenched fist as his supporters cheered on June 26, hours after pleading guilty to obtaining and […]
JENIN, West Bank (TIP): When Mujahid Abadi stepped outside to see if Israeli forces had entered his uncle’s neighborhood, he was shot in the arm and the foot. That was only the start of his […]
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