Shanghai (TIP) : China is eager to strengthen its partnership with the United States, with the country’s ambassador to Washington, Xie Feng, emphasizing the importance of dialogue between the world’s two largest economies. In a […]
London (TIP): Britain’s Samantha Harvey has won the 2024 Booker Prize for her novel Orbital, a story about a single day aboard the International Space Station, which she wrote during COVID-19 lockdowns. The novel, Harvey’s […]
Tokyo (TIP): Japanese Princess Yuriko, the wife of wartime Emperor Hirohito’s brother and the oldest member of the imperial family, has died after her health deteriorated recently, palace officials said. She was 101. Yuriko died […]
SURREY, BC (TIP): Leaders of various moderate Sikh bodies joined by leaders of other South Asian communities, including Hindus, denounced incidents of violence, intimidation and coercion that marred the post-Diwali celebrations in Surrey, British Columbia. […]
BRAMPTON (TIP): Echo of the violent incidents outside Brampton Hindu Temple and Malton Singh Sabha Gurdwara was heard in the House of Commons when it resumed its sitting on Monday, November 4, as Mayor of […]
Vatican (TIP): Pope Francis’ child protection board called on October 27 for victims of clergy sexual abuse to have greater access to information about their cases and the right to compensation, in the first-ever global […]
TALISAY (TIP): The number of dead and missing in massive flooding and landslides wrought by Tropical Storm Trami in the Philippines has reached nearly 130 and the president said on October 26 that many areas […]
AITO (TIP): Dany Alwan stood shaking as rescue workers pulled remains from piles of rubble where his brother’s building once stood. An Israeli airstrike destroyed the three-story residential building in the quiet Christian village of […]
TOKYO (TIP): Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’ s ruling coalition lost a majority in the 465-seat lower house in a key parliamentary election on October 27 , a punishment by voters’ outrage over the governing […]
DEIR AL-BALAH (TIP): Gaza’s civil defence agency said on October 27 that an overnight Israeli air strike killed 93 people in a residential building in the northern district of Beit Lahia. “The number of martyrs […]
BEIRUT (TIP): Lebanon’s Hezbollah movement announced on October 27 it has chosen deputy head Naim Qassem to succeed Hasan Nasrallah as leader after his death in an Israeli strike on south Beirut last month. “Hezbollah’s […]
Two turbaned Sikhs were among the three candidates of South Asian descent declared successful in the Saskatchewan Provincial Assembly elections. Bhajan Singh Brar and Tajinder Singh Grewal, both of the New Democratic Party (NDP), thus […]
Ho Chi Minh City (TIP): A Vietnamese property tycoon sentenced to death for fraud totalling $27 billion arrived in court on October 17 to face a potential life sentence in a related trial on money […]
ROME (TIP): Italy on October 16 criminalized citizens who go abroad to have children through surrogacy, a measure slammed by opponents as “medieval” and discriminatory to LGBTQ community The measure extending a surrogacy ban in […]
LONDON (TIP): British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said October 16 that the government was considering sanctions against far-right Israeli ministers Itamar Ben Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich. Asked in parliament if the government would sanction the […]
BEIJING (TIP): British Foreign Secretary David Lammy told Chinese counterpart Wang Yi on October 18 he hoped the two countries could discuss their differences “constructively”. London has said Lammy will use his visit — the […]
BEIRUT (TIP): Lebanon’s Prime Minister Najib Mikati on October 18 offered a rare rebuke of Iran, charging it with “blatant interference” over remarks attributed to its parliament speaker on a UN resolution on Hezbollah and […]
Last month, the NDP ended a supply-and-confidence agreement that had stabilized the minority government for more than two years. OTTAWA (TIP): In less than a month after tearing its supply and confidence agreement with the […]
By Prabhjot Singh OTTAWA (TIP): Spearheaded by Sukh Dhaliwal, Liberal MP from British Columbia, leaders of various Sikh organizations have petitioned the Canadian House of Commons demanding a fresh inquiry into one of the worst […]
MOSCOW (TIP): Russian President Vladimir Putin said September 25 that a nuclear power supporting another country’s attack on Russia will be considered a participant in aggression under a new version of Moscow’s nuclear doctrine. Speaking […]
TOKYO (TIP): Japan’s ruling party on September 27 picked former defense minister Shigeru Ishiba as leader, setting him up to become prime minister next week. The party leadership win is a ticket to the top […]
BEIRUT (TIP): An Israeli airstrike in Lebanon hit a building housing Syrian workers, killing 23 of them, Lebanon’s state news agency reported September 26. It was one of the deadliest single strikes in an intensified […]
NEW YORK (tip): Ukrainian President, Volodomyr Zelenskyy has alledged that some are attempting to broker peace with the objective of getting a nobel prize and not real peace. “As a global initiative the peace-formula has […]
London (TIP): Climate campaigners on September 27 hit out at stiff jail sentences given to two activists who threw soup at Vincent van Gogh’s “Sunflowers” at a London gallery, voicing fears about the right to […]
BEIRUT (TIP): A huge Israeli strike hit Beirut’s densely populated southern suburbs on September 27, flattening buildings in an operation the Israeli military said targeted Hezbollah’s headquarters but a source close to the group said […]
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