Gaza (TIP): The number of displaced people in Gaza has shot up from 3,000 before the recent violence to nearly 350,000 within less than a week. There were around 3,000 displaced people in Gaza before […]
JERUSALEM (TIP): Israel’s military directed the evacuation on October 13 of all of the hundreds of thousands of civilians living in Gaza City ahead of a feared Israel ground offensive. The order comes after Hamas […]
BEIRUT (TIP): An attack on October 5 on a Syrian military academy killed more than 100 people, a war monitor said, with state media blaming “terrorist organisations” for the drone strike in government-held Homs. Separately, […]
DHAKA (TIP): More than 1,000 people in Bangladesh have died of dengue fever this year, the country’s worst recorded outbreak of the mosquito-borne disease, which is increasing in frequency due to climate change. Dengue is […]
KATHMANDU (TIP): Scientists are exploring whether the strong earthquake that struck Nepal and the surrounding region on October 3 is responsible for the south Lhonak lake outburst, which triggered a flash flood in the Teesta […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): The Islamabad High Court on October 4 ruled that jailed former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan’s bail plea in the cipher case would take place in an open court on October 9, as […]
MANCHESTER (TIP): Battling gloomy opinion polls and mounting doubts, U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on October 4 promised sceptical voters, and his own Conservative Party, that he would make tough choices to “fundamentally change our […]
BUSAN (TIP): Hong Kong film legend Chow Yun-fat on October 5 lamented China’s “difficult” censorship while conceding the mainland market’s crucial financial importance for filmmakers. Speaking at South Korea’s Busan International Film Festival (BIFF), Chow […]
KYIV (TIP): Ukrainian officials said on October 5 that a Russian strike on a grocery store and cafe in the eastern region of Kharkiv had killed dozens of people. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said the […]
TEL AVIV (TIP): Israel has quietly helped fuel Azerbaijan’s campaign to recapture Nagorno-Karabakh, supplying powerful weapons to Azerbaijan ahead of its lightening offensive last month that brought the ethnic Armenian enclave back under its control, […]
TAIPEI (TIP): Typhoon Koinu swept southern Taiwan on October 5, injuring 190 people but causing no deaths as it brought pounding rain and record-breaking winds to the island, leading to school and office closures. Koinu, […]
Kathmandu (TIP): Nepal’s veteran summiteer Kami Rita Sherpa has made a new record for the ‘Most Climbs of 8,000 metres’, as he scaled 8,000ers 42 times, an official said. The 53-year-old summited 42 mountains of […]
Beijing/Kathmandu (TIP): China and Nepal on September 25 signed 12 agreements, including seven MoUs, to enhance bilateral cooperation in various sectors including trade and road connectivity coinciding with the visit of Nepalese Prime Minister Pushpa […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The Afghan Embassy in Delhi has closed down, due to a lack of finances, and infighting amongst diplomats with some seeking asylum in other countries. “The presence of the Afghan Diplomatic Mission […]
KARACHI (TIP): At least 34 people were killed and over 130 injured in a suicide blast near a mosque in Pakistan’s restive Balochistan province on September 29 when people were gathering for a rally to […]
HONG KONG (TIP): In the last few years, China’s government has promoted increasingly conservative social values, encouraging women to focus on raising children. It has cracked down on civil society movements and made laws to […]
YEREVAN (TIP): The toll from an explosion at a fuel depot in Nagorno-Karabakh that was thronged with Armenians fleeing an Azerbaijani military offensive has jumped to 170 people, authorities in the region announced on September […]
MOSCOW (TIP): Russia claimed on September 29 that it had destroyed 11 Ukrainian drones overnight, though one UAV dropped explosives on a substation, cutting the local power supply, a regional governor said. “Eleven Ukrainian unmanned […]
LONDON (TIP): A teenager will appear in a London court on September 29 charged with the murder of a 15-year-old schoolgirl in a case that has once again shone the spotlight on UK knife crime. […]
BENGHAZI (TIP): Libya’s prosecutor general has ordered the arrest of four more officials, bringing to 12 the number held as part of an inquiry into this month’s flood that killed thousands. Flooding caused by hurricane-strength […]
VALLETTA (TIP): The leaders of nine southern European Union countries met in Malta on September 29 to discuss common challenges such as migration, the EU’s management of which has vexed national governments in Europe for […]
Colombo (TIP): After over a year, another Chinese ocean research vessel has been cleared by the Sri Lankan Ministry of Defence to dock in the country. The ship, which will likely dock at Colombo, will […]
Lahore (TIP): Pakistan’s self-exiled former PM Nawaz Sharif has said that his country was begging money from the world while India had reached the moon and hosted the G20 summit, blaming the country’s former generals […]
Kathmandu (TIP) : Nepal PM Pushpa Kamal Dahal “Prachanda” will be on an eight-day visit to China from September 23 for talks with the top Chinese leadership, including President Xi Jinping, on ways to further […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): Pakistan’s election commission on September 21 announced that the general elections in the country will take place in the last week of January 2024, amid mounting pressure from political parties that pressed for […]
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