LVIV (TIP): Russia fired cruise missiles July 6 at a western Ukraine city far from the front line of the war, killing at least six people in an apartment building in what officials said was […]
BEIJING (tip): China’s People’s Liberation Army sent 13 aircraft and 6 vessels into airspace and waters around Taiwan over the past 24 hours as of early on July 8, overlapping with United States Treasury Secretary […]
SEOUL (TIP): Japan’s plan to release treated water from the Fukushima nuclear plant would have “negligible consequences” for South Korea, Seoul said on July 7 as it tries to assuage rising public concern. The International […]
MOSCOW (TIP): A blast at a Russian explosives plant on July 7 killed six people and injured two more, emergency officials said. The explosion occurred as workers were dismantling equipment at one of the workshops […]
GENEVA (TIP): France must address deep issues of racial discrimination in its police, the United Nations said on June 30, after a third night of unrest sparked by the fatal police shooting of a teenager. […]
BASRA (TIP): Thousands of followers of a firebrand Iraqi Shiite cleric rallied in major cities in Iraq on June 30, condemning the burning of a Quran during a protest in Sweden earlier this week. Some […]
PARIS (TIP): French President Emmanuel Macron urged parents on June 30 to keep teenagers at home and blamed social media for fueling rioting that has spread dramatically across France following the fatal police shooting of […]
Ontario (TIP) : Google on June 29 joined Meta in announcing that it will restrict news from Canada. The decision comes as a response to the new law (Online News Act) passed by the Canadian […]
HELSINKI (TIP): Finland’s new economic affairs minister Vilhelm Junnila, a member of the far-right Finns Party, announced his resignation on June 30 after only 10 days in office following an uproar over past alleged pro-Nazi […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): Pakistan could get temporary relief for its ballooning foreign debt with a new stand-by arrangement worth $3 billion announced by the IMF in Washington late June 29. The economy has been stricken by […]
LOUDON, VA (TIP): Two Indian American candidates Suhas Subramanyam and Kannan Srinivasan have won the Democratic primaries for the Virginia Senate and House of Delegates, respectively. Subramanyam, of Ashburn, a two-term delegate who currently represents […]
COLOMBO (TIP): The World Bank has approved USD 700 million in financing to help Sri Lanka to recover from the current economic crisis and provide relief to the poor and vulnerable people, the biggest funding […]
BANGKOK (TIP): Myanmar anti- coup fighters briefly seized several border outposts after junta-aligned militia defected and joined the rebels, sparking days of heavy clashes, state media reported on June 29. Fighting has ravaged swathes of […]
NICOSIA (CYPRUS) (TIP): Cypriot emergency services rescued 45 Syrian migrants from two boats after receiving information that they were in distress near a coastal tourist resort, authorities said on June 23. The eastern Mediterranean island’s […]
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (TIP): Former New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced on June 23 she is writing a book, with the focus more on leadership than on politics. In an Instagram post, Ardern said […]
JOHANNESBURG (TIP): At least 31 people were believed to have died in a gas explosion in a disused mine shaft in South Africa that happened last month but was only now coming to light, authorities […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): Last summer’s flooding in Pakistan killed at least 1,700 people, destroyed millions of homes, wiped out swaths of farmland, and caused billions of dollars in economic losses. All in a matter of months. […]
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (TIP): Sri Lanka’s former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa was accused in a report released June 22 of tampering with police records in order to hamper investigations into mass graves discovered in an area […]
JAKARTA (TIP): Indonesian livestreamer Christine Febriyanti stood in a room crammed with clothes in Jakarta, hawking colourful garments to hundreds of viewers on a TikTok livestream for a local fashion brand. “For the Vitamin C […]
BANGKOK (TIP): A fire extinguisher exploded and killed a student during a fire drill held outdoors in sweltering heat at a high school in Thailand’s capital on June 23, police said. Five other students were […]
TAIPEI, Taiwan (TIP): A disbarred Chinese human rights lawyer has been forced to move 13 times in two months as part of a pattern of harassment against him and three other prominent rights advocates in […]
Beijing (TIP): Beijing logged its hottest June day since records began on June 22, the national weather service said, as swathes of northern China sweltered in 40-degree heat. Scientists say rising global temperatures — caused […]
CANBERRA (AUSTRALIA) (TIP): A suspected lone Russian diplomat was seen squatting on the site of Moscow’s proposed embassy after the Australian government vetoed the plan on security grounds and with legislation that Russia will try […]
TUNIS (TIP): A Tunisian judge on June 23 ordered the release of opposition figure Chaima Issa four months after her arrest on suspicion of “plotting against state security”, her lawyer told AFP. Issa should walk […]
LONDON (TIP) : Over 40 Indian-origin medics, business leaders and community champions are among those on King Charles III’s first Birthday Honors List released by the UK government. Dr Parvinder Kaur Aley, Director of Global […]
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