SEOUL (TIP): In a surprise move, South Korea’s opposition-controlled National Assembly voted on September 21 to strip the leader of the opposition of his parliamentary immunity, potentially allowing his arrest over corruption allegations. Lee Jae-myung, […]
Ukraine is testing a new sea route that avoids international waters and follows those controlled by NATO members Bulgaria and Romania. ISTANBUL (TIP): The first grain ship to sail from Ukraine since Russia reimposed its […]
RIO DE JANEIRO (TIP): Indigenous people celebrated September 21 after Brazil’s Supreme Court ruled to enshrine their land rights, removing the imminent threat those protections could be rolled back. The justices had been evaluating a […]
“The bird flu outbreak is the worst that South Africa has witnessed,” fellow producer Astral said in a trading update on September 21. JOHANNESBURG (TIP): South African poultry farmers have warned of possible chicken and […]
LONDON (TIP): Britain’s Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on September 21 insisted he was “not slowing down efforts” to tackle climate change, a day after softening green policies aimed at achieving net zero carbon emissions by […]
HANGZHOU (TIP): Chinese President Xi Jinping announced a “strategic partnership” with Syria on September 22 during talks with President Bashar al-Assad, who is seeking financial support to help rebuild his devastated country. The leaders met […]
LONDON (TIP): Two authors of Indian heritage, UK-based Nandini Das and US-based Kris Manjapra, are among six worldwide writers on the shortlist unveiled here on Tuesday, September 12, for the 2023 British Academy Book Prize […]
HONG KONG (TIP): Hong Kong was flooded by the heaviest rainfall in nearly 140 years on September 8, leaving the city’s streets and some subway stations underwater and forcing its schools to close. Just across […]
TALLINN (TIP): Russian authorities are holding local elections this weekend in occupied parts of Ukraine in an effort to tighten their grip on territories Moscow illegally annexed a year ago and still does not fully […]
BAMAKO (Mali) (TIP): A military camp in Mali’s restive north was attacked on September 8, a day after two separate assaults by al-Qaida-linked insurgents killed 49 civilians and 15 government soldiers, the military said. “Response […]
BEIRUT (TIP): Clashes resumed in Lebanon’s largest Palestinian refugee camp, with heavy gunfire and shelling wounding several people and prompting residents of the camp and the surrounding area to flee on Sept 8. Several days […]
ATHENS (TIP): Severe rainstorms eased but floodwaters were still rising in parts of central Greece on September 8, while fire department and military helicopters were plucking people from villages inundated by tons of water and […]
COLOMBO (TIP): Sri Lanka’s government will appoint a parliamentary committee to investigate allegations made in a British television report that Sri Lankan intelligence had complicity in the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings that killed 269 people. […]
DUBAI (TIP): A helicopter crashed off the coast of Dubai during a night training flight, with two pilots on board missing, the United Arab Emirates’ aviation authority said on September 8. The Bell 212 helicopter […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): Parvez Elahi, the president of former prime minister Imran Khan’s party, was rearrested on September 5 soon after the Islamabad High Court suspended his detention and ordered his release. The Islamabad police in […]
BAKU (TIP): Azerbaijan summoned France’s ambassador on August 31 and condemned its “direct interference” in Nagorno-Karabakh after several French councils sent a humanitarian aid convoy to blockaded Armenians in the enclave. Baku has been accused […]
JOHANNESBURG (TIP): A nighttime fire ripped through a rundown five-story building in Johannesburg that was occupied by homeless people and squatters, killing at least 73 people early on August 31, emergency services in South Africa’s […]
STRASBOURG (TIP): The European rights court said on August 31 it would hear an appeal by sex workers against a French anti-prostitution law which they say has shattered their livelihoods and driven them underground. Sex […]
LONDON (TIP): Claire Coutinho, a close aide of British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, got a big promotion as his new Energy Security and Net Zero Secretary in a mini reshuffle on August 31. Coutinho, 38, […]
DR Congo (TIP): At least 48 people have been killed in a crackdown on an anti-UN protest in eastern DR Congo, according to local sources and official documentation seen by AFP on August 31.On August […]
NIAMEY (TIP): Niger’s new military rulers have withdrawn the French ambassador’s diplomatic immunity and ordered police to expel him, according to a letter seen on August 31 by AFP. The envoy “no longer enjoys the […]
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (TIP): A suicide bomber riding on a motorcycle targeted a security convoy in northwest Pakistan on August 31, killing at least nine soldiers and wounding 20 others, the military and three security officials […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): The Taliban will use security forces to stop women from visiting one of Afghanistan’s most popular national parks, according to information shared by a spokesman for the Vice and Virtue Ministry. The ministry […]
BANGKOK (TIP): Former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who recently returned from exile and began serving an eight-year prison term, has requested a royal pardon, a senior member of the outgoing Cabinet said on August […]
Islamabad (TIP) : More than 200 extrajudicial killings of former Afghan government officials and security forces have taken place since the Taliban took over the country two years ago, according to a UN report released […]
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