Beijing (TIP): Canada’s public broadcaster CBC says it is closing its China bureau after the Chinese government ignored requests to base a reporter in Beijing. CBC said its applications had been met “by months-long silence […]
Seoul (TIP): South Korea’s military said it scrambled fighter jets after detecting about 180 North Korean warplanes flying north of the military border over four hours on November 4. The North Korean aircraft flew north […]
Beijing (TIP): A man in China is keeping his 219 million yuan (around Rs 250 crore) lottery jackpot a secret from his family. He went to collect the prize money alone at the lottery office […]
Taipei (TIP): The timing of German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s imminent trip to China and what signals he will give to Beijing have raised questions at home, a German member of the European Parliament said on […]
Seoul (TIP): A mass of mostly young people celebrating Halloween in Seoul became trapped and crushed as the crowd surged into a narrow alley, killing at least 153 people and injuring 82 others in South […]
Kyiv (TIP): Ukraine (AP) US President Joe Biden warned that global hunger could increase because of Russia’s suspension of a UN-brokered deal to allow safe passage for ships carrying Ukrainian grain. “It’s really outrageous,” said […]
Mogadishu (TIP) : The two car bombs that exploded at Somalia’s education ministry, next to a busy market intersection, killed at least 100 people and wounded 300, President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud said on October 30, […]
Manila (TIP): Flash floods and landslides set off by torrential rains left at least 50 people dead, including in a hard-hit southern Philippine province, where as many as 60 villagers are feared missing and buried […]
Tokyo (TIP): Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s government approved on October 28 a hefty economic package that will include about 29 trillion yen (USD 200 billion) in government spending to soften the burden of rising […]
Seoul (TIP): North Korea fired a ballistic missile towards the sea on October 28, Seoul officials said, as its rival South Korea was wrapping up an annual military drill that the North views as an […]
Islamabad (TIP): Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has said that he has flatly rejected a proposal from his predecessor and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan on the appointment of a successor to Army Chief General […]
Quetta (TIP): A shootout with militants in northwestern Pakistan on October 29 killed two soldiers, authorities said as a counterterrorism task force arrested a suspect involved in the recent killing of a former top judge […]
Kabul (TIP): An attack on a vehicle in western Afghanistan killed five medical personnel employed by Taliban security forces on October 27, a defence ministry spokesperson said. “This morning, unknown armed men attacked a … […]
Rishi Sunak enters No 10 Downing Street today as the UK’s third prime minister in 2022, and its fifth in six years. Sunak’s investiture of Britain’s highest office may be part of the country’s revolving […]
LONDON (TIP): Sri Lankan author Shehan Karunatilaka has been named the winner of the 2022 Booker Prize for his second novel ‘The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida’, described by judges as a whodunnit and a […]
BIRMINGHAM, UK (TIP): The Conservative Friends of India and the Indian High Commission jointly hosted a Reception at the annual Conservative Party Conference in Birmingham, October 6.The Reception attended by over 400 guests received rave […]
Beijing (TIP): China on October 20 dropped a subtle hint that President Xi Jinping, who is widely expected to get endorsed by the ongoing Congress of the ruling Communist Party for a record third term, […]
Cairo (TIP): Two Sudanese officials say that tribal clashes in the country’s southern province of Blue Nile have killed 170 persons over the past two days.The officials say the fighting erupted on October 19. The […]
London (TIP): A Russian fighter jet fired a missile near an unarmed British spy plane patrolling in international airspace over the Black Sea on September 29, UK defence minister Ben Wallace said. Britain has condemned […]
Canberra (TIP): A cybercriminal was holding for ransom an Australian health insurer’s customer data including diagnoses and treatments, in the nation’s second major privacy breach in a month, officials said on October 20. Trade in […]
Bangkok (TIP): A bombing on October 19 near the front gate of Myanmar’s main prison for political detainees killed at least eight people, including visitors and prison personnel, local media and the government said. Five […]
Islamabad (TIP): Pakistan witnessed a record 51 per cent increase in terrorist attacks in one year after the Afghan-Taliban got power in Afghanistan in August last year, according to a local think-tank report. The rag-tag […]
Islamabad (TIP): A lawmaker of ousted Prime Minister Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party was arrested here on October 13 for accusing Army chief General Qamar JavedBajwa of legitimising corruption in the high echelon of the […]
Islamabad (TIP): At least 18 flood survivors, including eight children and nine women, died of severe burns in Pakistan, when an overcrowded air-conditioned bus they were travelling in caught fire, police officials said on October […]
Bangkok (TIP): A court in military-ruled Myanmar convicted the country’s ousted leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, on two more corruption charges on October 12, with two three-year sentences to be served concurrently, adding to previous […]
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