The national holiday, which takes place on the third Monday of January each year, serves as a day of remembrance for Martin Luther King, who was killed in Memphis in 1968. This year, it will […]
Berlin (TIP): Germany’s leaders are set to consider possible new restrictions and changes to quarantine rules on January 7 as the new Omicron variant advances quickly. Chancellor Olaf Scholz and the country’s 16 state governors […]
Moscow (TIP): The President of Kazakhstan said on January 7 he authorised law enforcement to open fire on “terrorists” and shoot to kill, a move that comes after days of extremely violent protests in the […]
Melbourne (TIP): A small group of protesters supporting Novak Djokovic waved flags and banners outside an Australian immigration detention hotel where he remained on January 7. Locked in a dispute over his COVID-19 vaccination status, […]
Rio de Janeiro (TIP): Insufficient testing for Covid-19 and a data blackout caused by hackers have left Brazil in the dark as it grapples with a wave of infections from the Omicron coronavirus variant, health […]
Moscow (TIP): Dozens of protesters and 12 policemen died during extraordinarily violent demonstrations in Kazakhstan that saw government buildings stormed and set ablaze, authorities said on January 6. One police officer was found beheaded in […]
Colombo (TIP): Sri Lankan health authorities on January 7 began vaccinating children aged 12 to 15, as the island nation’s top medical specialists warned of a wave of COVID-19 infections in the coming weeks driven […]
Islamabad (TIP): Afghanistan’s Taliban regime has said it will not allow fencing by Pakistan in any form along the Durand Line, issuing a stern warning to Islamabad amid escalating tensions between the neighbouring countries on […]
Kathmandu (TIP): Union Cabinet on January 6 approved signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between India and Nepal for construction of a bridge over Mahakali river at Dharchula in Uttarakhand. Briefing the media on […]
Lahore (TIP): Pakistan’s deposed premier Nawaz Sharif has slammed Prime Minister Imran Khan for the “fraud” detected in the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf party’s foreign funding, saying that he has been exposed as a “corrupt and […]
FORT WORTH, TX (TIP): In case you missed it, here are four COVID updates from the first Tarrant County Commissioners’ meeting of 2022, which was held Tuesday, January 4. The County’s positivity rate is at […]
She is “the first woman of color” to have done so. Nirpal Singh Shergill LONDON (TIP): Indian origin woman Harpreet Chandi, a 32-year-old captain with the British army, reached the South Pole on Monday after […]
Before Poitier, few Black actors were permitted a break from the stereotypes of bug-eyed servants and grinning entertainers NEW YORK (TIP): Sidney Poitier, the groundbreaking actor and enduring inspiration who transformed how Black people were […]
The European Southern Observatory has released a new image of Orion’s Flame Nebula. Named NGC 2024, the Flame Nebula is a large star-forming region located in the Orion constellation situated about 1,400 light-years from Earth. […]
Samsung at the CES 2022 has showcased a new TV remote that uses radio waves from the home router to stay charged. The company had earlier introduced a solar-powered Eco Remote for its 2021 TVs […]
NASA aced the most complicated, critical job on its newly launched space telescope Tuesday: unrolling and stretching a sunshade the size of a tennis court. Ground controllers cheered and bumped fists once the fifth and […]
South Korean tech giant Samsung is gearing up to launch its Galaxy S-series flagship lineup, and now a new report has claimed that unlike the Galaxy S21, Ultra will have a Galaxy Note design. The […]
“The great force of history comes from the fact that we carry it within us, are unconsciously controlled by it in many ways, and history is literally present in all that we do.”― James Baldwin […]
Karachi (TIP): The former chairman of Pakistan’s Federal Board of Revenue Shabbar Zaidi has said the country is “bankrupt” and it is better to recognise the reality than “living in illusion”. Zaidi—who was chairman of […]
Colombo (TIP): The Sri Lankan government on December 16 reinstated a Muslim doctor, who was sent on compulsory leave for allegedly performing illegal sterilisation on over 4,000 women from the majority Sinhalese Buddhist community with […]
Kathmandu (TIP): Nepal’s Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba was re-elected on Wednesday as the president of the ruling Nepali Congress — the country’s largest democratic party — for a consecutive second four year term after […]
Lahore (TIP): Four men who were convicted of gang-raping and robbing a 20-year-old college student in Punjab province has been sentenced to death by a Pakistan court. In January this year, the four suspects — […]
Sydney (TIP): Five children died and four others were in critical condition on December 16 after falling from a bouncy castle that was lifted 10 metres (33 feet) into the air by a gust of […]
Moscow (TIP): Russian President Vladimir Putin has pledged to attend the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, making him the first major western leader to confirm his attendance at the games, BBC reported. His remarks came […]
Ankara (TIP): At least 22 people have died in Istanbul and 16 others have been hospitalised and are in serious condition after drinking bootleg alcohol, the local governor’s office said december 17, as authorities intensified […]
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