ISLAMABAD (TIP): The Islamabad High Court on November 21 declared illegal the August 29 notification which had directed jail authorities to keep former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan in “judicial lockup” in the cipher case, […]
BANGKOK (TIP): Thailand’s Cabinet on November 21 approved an amendment to its civil code to allow same-sex marriage, with an expectation for the draft to be submitted to Parliament next month. Karom Polpornklang, a deputy […]
DHAKA (TIP): Bangladeshi trans woman Yasin Ahmed Sokal always wanted the freedom to dress like her sisters, but never in her wildest dreams did she imagine being showered with applause at a beauty pageant in […]
ISLAMABAD/LONDON (TIP): Cash-strapped Pakistan reportedly earned USD 364 million in an arms deal with two private US companies last year to supply ammunition to Ukraine in its war with Russia, according to a media report. […]
BIREUEN (AFP): About 250 desperate Rohingya refugees reached western Indonesia on a decrepit, overcrowded wooden boat November 16, bringing the total number reported by local officials to have arrived this week to nearly 600. The […]
Dhaka (TIP): Bangladesh is set to hold its 12th general elections on January 7, 2024, announced the Chief Election Commissioner, Kazi Habibul Awal, on Wednesday. The announcement of elections comes against a backdrop of nationwide […]
BARCELONA (TIP): Just days after her success at the Latin Grammys, Colombian pop idol Shakira is set to go on trial in Barcelona on November 14 for allegedly cheating Spain’s tax office out of 14.5 […]
MANILA (TIP): A strong magnitude 6.7 earthquake shook the southern Philippines on November 14, the US Geological Survey said, sending people fleeing buildings and causing part of a ceiling inside a shopping mall to collapse. […]
SAN FRANCISCO (TIP): China is “ready to be a partner and friend of the United States,” President Xi Jinping told US business leaders on November 16, as concerns mount over the country’s slowing economy. If […]
BREGANA, CROATIA (TIP): It took Croatia years to finally enter into Europe’s passport-free travel zone that promised to ease access for other European nationals travelling to the country and boost its tourism-driven economy. But less […]
Gaza City (TIP): The Hamas-controlled health ministry said on November 17 that 24 patients at a hospital in war-torn Gaza had died within 48 hours due to power outages, as Israeli forces searched the complex […]
TALLINN, Estonia (TIP): A Russian court on Thursday convicted an artist and musician for swapping supermarket price tags with antiwar messages, sentencing her to seven years in prison in one of the highest-profile cases involving […]
TAIYUAN (TIP): Twenty-five people have died and dozens sent to hospital after a fire tore through a building in northern China’s Shanxi province on November 16, AFP reported quoting state media. The fire broke out […]
YANGON (TIP): Myanmar’s military has lost control of a strategic town on the Chinese border following days of clashes with ethnic armed groups, in what analysts say is the biggest military challenge it has faced […]
Islamabad (TIP): At least 1,65,000 Afghans living in Pakistan without valid documents have left the country since the government ordered all illegal foreigners to leave or face forcible expulsion, officials said. The government earlier last […]
Peshawar (TIP) : A bomb blast near a police patrol killed at least five people and injured 21 others in Pakistan’s restive Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on November 3 in the latest attack on security personnel […]
Lahore (TIP): Lahore, the capital of Pakistan’s Punjab province, was one of the most polluted major cities across the world for the second consecutive day on November 2, according to a global air quality monitoring […]
Gaza (TIP): Hassan Nasrallah, head of the pro-Iranian militia group Hezbollah, said the October 7 attack on Israel from Gaza was a “100% Palestinian operation” and that his group was not involved in it. But, […]
TEL AVIV (TIP): US Secretary of State Antony Blinken reiterated on November 3 that Israel has the right and obligation to defend itself as it continues to pummel the Gaza Strip with an air and […]
MONTEMURLO (TIP): At least 12 people were killed as Storm Ciaran battered Western Europe with record winds of up to 200 kilometres per hour, causing travel mayhem with closed ports and flight and rail disruptions. […]
Gaza (TIP): A journalist working for the Palestinian Authority’s television channel was killed on November 2 in an Israeli strike on Gaza, his network reported, as war rages between Israel and Hamas. “Our colleague Mohammed […]
Jerusalem’s (TIP): The once bustling streets of Jerusalem’s Old City have fallen eerily quiet, with the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas keeping away tourists and their much-needed cash. In the maze-like warren of shopping […]
PARIS (TIP): Iranian prison authorities have blocked 2023 Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi’s hospital transfer for urgently needed care over her refusal to wear the compulsory hijab, her family has said. Veteran rights activist […]
KABUL (TIP): A police spokesman on October 27 raised the death toll from an explosion in a mostly Shiite Muslim neighbourhood of the Afghan capital, Kabul, to four, with seven people critically injured. The cause […]
NEW DELHI, Dhaka (TIP): : Pakistan should apologise to Bangladesh for its actions during the 1971 liberation war, said AKM Mozammel Haque, the country’s minister for Liberation War Affairs, during his visit to New Delhi […]
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