DUBAI (TIP): A ballistic missile fired by Yemen’s Houthi rebels slammed into a cargo ship on December 15 in the Red Sea near the strategic Bab el-Mandeb Strait, following another attack only hours earlier that […]
KARACHI (TIP): Four people were killed and two others injured on December 6 evening when a fire broke out in a shopping and residential mall in Pakistan’s Karachi city. TV footage showed billowing into the […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): Barrister Gohar Ali Khan emerged as the uncontested choice for the new chairman of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), succeeding the imprisoned former prime minister, Imran Khan, as reported by ARY News on December 4. […]
COX’S BAZAR (TIP): Four Rohingya refugees were killed during a gunfight between two insurgent groups in Bangladesh, police said December 6, in the latest sign of deteriorating security in the country’s overcrowded relief camps. Bangladesh […]
BEIJING (TIP): China has become the first country to confer diplomatic status to a Taliban-nominated official as Afghanistan’s Ambassador to Beijing, thereby formally recognising the Taliban-run administration as a legitimate government in Kabul. “As a […]
ROME (TIP): Italy has formally withdrawn from China’s vast Belt and Road infrastructure initiative, more than four years after becoming the only G7 nation to sign up, a government source said December 6. The long-expected […]
JERUSALEM (TIP): Israeli troops battled Hamas militants December 7 in the heart of southern Gaza’s main city where a suspected mastermind of the October 7 attacks is believed to be hiding while pressing their offensive […]
MARAWI (TIP): At least four people were killed and dozens wounded in a bomb attack on a Catholic mass in the insurgency-plagued southern Philippines on December 4, with President Ferdinand Marcos blaming “foreign terrorists”. The […]
LONDON (TIP): Groups representing skilled professionals and students from India on December 4 expressed concerns over a lack of clarity around the UK government’s latest visa crackdown, branding the ban on family dependents as “unfair.” […]
PARIS, FRANCE (TIP): A person known to the French authorities as a radical Islamist with mental health troubles stabbed a German tourist to death and wounded two people in central Paris on December 7 before […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): Jailed former prime minister Imran Khan will not contest the intra-party polls and has instead nominated barrister Gohar Khan for the post of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf chairman to lead the party in the upcoming […]
COLOMBO (TIP): Sri Lanka’s inflation more than doubled to 3.4 per cent in November, the statistics office said November 30, a day after Colombo announced a deal to restructure nearly $6 billion in bilateral debt. […]
DHAKA (TIP): Bangladesh’s main opposition on November 30 officially boycotted the upcoming general elections, removing the only party that could have offered a realistic challenge to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s fourth consecutive term in power. […]
TEL AVIV (TIP): Israel and Hamas agreed to extend their cease-fire for two more days past November 28, raising the prospect of further exchanges of militant-held hostages for Palestinians imprisoned by Israel and a longer […]
Costa Rican (TIP): At a time where the world is dealing with two major armed conflicts, Russia-Ukraine and Israel-Hamas, Central American country Costa Rica is celebrating 75 years of peace and democracy without an army. […]
MOSCOW (TIP): Russia has sentenced a man to 10 days in jail for tracing the words “No to war” on a snow-covered turnstile outside a skating rink in Moscow, a court document showed. Moscow made […]
DAR ES SALAAM (TIP): Two passenger planes carrying tourists crash-landed at the same airport and on the same day in a Tanzanian national park, but officials said everyone on board survived unharmed. The incidents, both […]
JERUSALEM (TIP): Israel and Hamas agreed at the last minute November 30 to extend their cease-fire in Gaza by another day. But any further renewal of the deal that has seen dozens of hostages and […]
DUBAI (TIP): The Emirati host of the UN climate conference in Dubai denied November 29 reports that he used his presidency of the crucial talks on global warming to pursue fossil fuels deals. The allegations […]
KYIV (TIP): Extreme weather that stormed through Ukraine’s south earlier this week killed 12 people, while bad weather and the war with Russia have left more than 800 villages without power, Kyiv said on November […]
LONDON (TIP): Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar said on November 24 that protesters who battled police and looted shops in Dublin after a school knife attack were motivated by “hate” and brought “shame on Ireland”. […]
BEIJING (TIP): China announced November 24 that it will allow visa-free entry for citizens of five European countries and Malaysia as it tries to encourage more people to visit for business and tourism. Starting Dec. […]
GAZA (TIP): Israeli forces withdrew from Gaza’s largest hospital Al-Shifa on November 24, the Hamas-run health ministry said, on the first day of a temporary truce between Israel and the Palestinian militants. The Israeli military […]
Palestinian NGO says 39 released from prison by Israel under truce agreement BEITUNIA (PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES) (TIP): A Palestinian NGO said November 24 that 39 prisoners had been released by Israeli authorities under a truce agreement […]
CAPE TOWN (TIP): Double-amputee Olympic runner Oscar Pistorius was granted parole on November 24, 10 years after shooting his girlfriend through a toilet door at his home in South Africa in a killing that jolted […]
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