GAZA (TIP):World Central Kitchen (WCK) founder José Andrés has accused Israeli forces in Gaza of targeting his aid workers “systematically, car by car”, the BBC reports. Monday’s strike which killed seven members of his staff […]
PARIS (TIP) : France’s sports minister said Wednesday that there was no “specific” terror threat to the Paris Olympics and that organisers were planning to go ahead with the opening ceremony on the river Seine. […]
KAMPALA (TIP): Uganda’s Constitutional Court is due to rule April 3 on a petition seeking to annul an anti-gay law that has been roundly condemned as one of the toughest in the world. The legislation […]
MANILA (TIP): President Ferdinand Marcos said on March 28 the Philippines will not be “cowed into silence” by Beijing after confrontations in the South China Sea that injured Filipino troops and damaged vessels. Marcos’s remarks […]
LONDON (TIP): A British court ruled March 26 that Julian Assange can’t be extradited to the United States on espionage charges unless U.S. authorities guarantee he won’t get the death penalty, giving the WikiLeaks founder […]
ZAGREB (TIP): With vigils outside clinics, marches drawing thousands and groups of men kneeling to pray in public squares, religious and neo-conservative groups have been ramping up pressure to ban abortions in staunchly Catholic Croatia. […]
DEIR AL-BALAH (TIP): An international team of doctors visiting a hospital in central Gaza was prepared for the worst. But the gruesome impact Israel’s war against Hamas is having on Palestinian children still left them […]
CAPE TOWN (TIP): A bus carrying worshippers headed to an Easter festival plunged off a bridge on a mountain pass and burst into flames in South Africa on March 28, killing at least 45 people, […]
Beijing (TIP): China on March 21 said it firmly opposes the US recognition of Arunachal Pradesh as part of Indian territory and affirmed that Washington has nothing to do with the India-China border dispute. It […]
Kyiv (TIP): Russia fired 31 ballistic and cruise missiles at Kyiv before dawn on March 21 in the first attack on the Ukrainian capital in 44 days, officials said. Air defences shot down all incoming […]
London (TIP): British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s flagship legislation aimed at flying illegal migrants to Rwanda has hit another set of parliamentary hurdles after the House of Lords delivered multiple defeats on the draft bill, […]
Tokyo (TIP): A South Korean chemical tanker capsized off an island in southwestern Japan on March 20, authorities said, killing eight people on board. One crew member survived, and the fate of two others was […]
Seoul (TIP): North Korea successfully tested a solid-fuel engine for its new-type intermediate-range hypersonic missile, state media reported on March 20, claiming a progress in efforts to develop a more powerful, agile missile designed to […]
Tel Aviv (Israel) (TIP): For the first time in its history, Israel is working to ensure food security in the country. As such, Israel’s Ministry of Agriculture said that it is “changing its face and […]
Wellington (TIP): New Zealand said on March 20 it will ban disposable e-cigarettes, or vapes, and raise financial penalties for those who sell such products to minors. The move comes less than a month after […]
Islamabad (TIP): In a major relief to ex-Pakistan prime minister Nawaz Sharif’s family, an anti-corruption court on March 14 cancelled the permanent arrest warrants against his two sons, who recently returned from the UK after […]
Kathmandu (TIP): Nepal Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ on March 14 secured a vote of confidence in Parliament, as the Himalayan country struggled to maintain political stability. Prachanda, 69, a former guerilla leader of […]
Colombo (TIP): Sri Lankan authorities have arrested 21 Indian nationals for illegally operating an online marketing centre in the island nation, violating the relaxed tourist visa norms, a media report said on Wednesday. The 21 […]
Rio De Janeiro (TIP): Brazilian police said on March 12 they released 17 hostages from a gunman that took over a crowded bus in Rio de Janeiro and wounded at least two people. Rio police […]
Beijing (TIP): In a rare show of defiance, Chinese media on March 14 protested against the attempts by police to block the coverage of a suspected gas leak explosion at an eatery in the country’s […]
PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI (TIP): A proposal to install new leadership in Haiti appeared to be crumbling March 13 as some political parties rejected the plan to create a presidential council that would manage the transition. The […]
Moscow (TIP): Ukraine fired at least eight missiles at Russia’s Belgorod border region, killing one person and wounding six, local officials said March 14, as Kyiv’s forces apparently kept up their efforts to rattle the […]
London (TIP): The UK government on March 14 issued a new, “more precise” definition of extremism in response to increased threats since the October 2023 Hamas terror attacks in Israel and to protect liberal democratic […]
Moscow (TIP): The Kremlin said on March 14 that comments on nuclear weapons that Russian President Vladimir Putin made in an interview with state media did not constitute a threat to use them, and accused […]
BEIRUT (TIP): Israeli warplanes struck deep into Lebanon for a second consecutive day on March 13, hitting a facility belonging to Hezbollah in the Bekaa Valley and killing at least one member of the Iran-backed […]
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