Tehran (TIP) : On September 16, 2022, Mahsa Amini died while in the custody of Iran’s morality police after being arrested for not adhering to the country’s strict Islamic dress code. Her death ignited widespread […]
PARIS (TIP): France’s budgetary situation is “very serious”, Prime Minister Michel Barnier told AFP on september 18, saying more information was needed to gauge the “precise reality” of French public finances. France was placed on […]
LISBON (TIP): Deadly wildfires raging in Portugal have forced more people to evacuate their homes as crews battled dozens of blazes on september 18 in the nation’s north. Stifling heat and strong winds have fanned […]
NAMIBIA (TIP): Four young children died after becoming trapped inside a disused freezer while playing hide and seek in northeastern Namibia, police said september 17. The children, aged between three and six, climbed into the […]
BUDAPEST (TIP): A Taiwanese company and its Hungarian partner on september 18 reportedly denied making pagers that exploded while being used by Hezbollah members in Lebanon. The New York Times, citing American and other anonymous […]
Gaza (TIP): Israel’s defense minister has declared the start of a “new phase” of the war as Israel turns its focus toward the northern front against Hezbollah militants in Lebanon. Speaking to Israeli troops on […]
MEXICO CITY (TIP): Mexico became the world’s first country to allow voters to elect judges at all levels on September 11, after protesters invaded the upper house and suspended debate on the issue. Outgoing President […]
HANOI, Vietnam (TIP): Nearly 200 people have died in Vietnam in the aftermath of Typhoon Yagi and 128 are missing as flash floods and landslides take their toll, state media reported September 12. Vietnam’s VNExpress […]
DEIR AL-BALAH (TIP): An Israeli strike on a crowded tent camp housing Palestinians displaced by the war in Gaza killed at least 40 people and wounded 60 others early September 11, Palestinian officials said. Israel […]
MADRID (TIP): Spain’s Constitutional Court said September 11 it will examine the constitutionality of an amnesty law for Catalan separatists, raising doubts over its application to hundreds of people including secessionist leader Carles Puigdemont. Spanish […]
PARIS (TIP): France on September 12 accused Azerbaijan of inflicting “arbitrary and discriminatory treatment” on one of its citizens, jailed for three years for spraying graffiti on the Baku metro. “Theo Clerc was sentenced on […]
The United States, along with mediators Egypt and Qatar, has been working for months to broker a cease-fire to end the devastating war between Israel and Hamas TEL AVIV (TIP): Israel’s Defense Minister says the […]
NAIROBI (TIP): Hundreds of workers at Kenya’s main international airport demonstrated on Wednesday, September 11, 2024, against a planned deal between the government and the Adani Group, says an AP report. Planes have remained grounded, […]
Istanbul (TIP): Russian President Vladimir Putin on September 5 said that he was ready for talks with Ukraine, on the basis of an aborted deal between Moscow’s and Kyiv’s negotiators reached in Istanbul in 2022. […]
PARIS (TIP): President Emmanuel Macron named the EU’s Brexit negotiator, Michel Barnier, as France’s new prime minister on September 5 after more than 50 days of caretaker government. The appointment of the 73-year-old Barnier follows […]
TEL AVIV (TIP): In response to the barrage of rockets fired at Israel, the country’s military launched attacks against Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon on September 4. The military said that the retaliatory strikes came […]
AVIGNON (TIP): A woman who was allegedly drugged by her now ex-husband so that she could be raped while unconscious by other men testified on September 5 that her world collapsed when police uncovered the […]
Hamas (TIP): Hamas called on the United States on Sept 5 to “exert real pressure” on Israel to reach a Gaza ceasefire agreement as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said there is no deal in the […]
BEIJING (TIP): Chinese leader Xi Jinping pledged on September 5 more than $50 billion in financing for Africa over the next three years, promising to deepen cooperation in infrastructure and trade with the continent as […]
Cairo (TIP): Israeli forces sent tanks deeper into Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip and launched strikes across the enclave as they battled Hamas-led militants, killing at least 34 Palestinians on August 28, medics […]
Seoul (TIP): North Korean leader Kim Jong Un watched as new “suicide drones” took off and destroyed test targets, including a mock tank, and urged researchers to develop artificial intelligence for the unmanned vehicles, state […]
Termini Imerese (Italy) (TIP): An Italian prosecutor has opened a manslaughter investigation into the deaths of British tech magnate Mike Lynch and six other people who were killed when a luxury yacht sank in stormy […]
Tokyo (TIP): A typhoon lashed southern Japan with torrential rain and strong winds August 29, causing at least three deaths as it started a crawl up the length of the archipelago and raised concerns of […]
Tokyo/Beijing (TIP): Japan’s defence ministry said it had scrambled jets against a Chinese reconnaissance aircraft that had briefly breached its airspace on August 21 morning. The aircraft was identified as a Y-9 reconnaissance plane that […]
Paris (TIP): French authorities handed preliminary charges to Telegram CEO Pavel Durov on August 28 for allowing alleged criminal activity on his messaging app, and barred him from leaving France pending further investigation. Both free-speech […]
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