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 […]
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 […]
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