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 […]
Moscow (TIP): Russia’s Foreign Ministry announced 92 additions on August 28 to its list of Americans banned from entering the country, including some journalists who formerly worked in Russia, and law enforcement and business people. […]
Madrid (TIP): Maria Branyas, an American-born Spaniard considered the world’s oldest person at 117 years old, has died, her family said on August 21. In a post on Branyas’ X account, her family wrote in […]
Dubai (TIP): A French destroyer rescued 29 mariners from an oil tanker that came under repeated attack in the Red Sea, officials said on August 22, while also destroying a bomb-carrying drone boat in the […]
Palermo (Sicily) (TIP): One man died and six people were missing, including British tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch, after a luxury yacht was struck by an unexpectedly violent storm and sank off Sicily on August 21. […]
Beijing (TIP): China on August 22 lodged a “serious protest” with the US after a top Biden administration official met the Dalai Lama and reaffirmed Washington’s commitment to advancing the human rights of Tibetans and […]
Moscow (TIP): Russian President Vladimir Putin on August 22 accused Ukraine of trying to strike Russia’s Kursk nuclear power plant in an overnight attack and said Moscow had informed the UN nuclear safety watchdog about […]
Kyiv (TIP): President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced the capture of another Russian village as he visited a border area from which Ukrainian forces entered Russia over two weeks ago, but Moscow said its troops had taken […]
Cairo/Jerusalem (TIP): Israeli airstrikes across Gaza killed at least 50 Palestinians in the past 24 hours, Palestinian health officials said on August 21, after US Secretary of State Antony Blinken ended his latest visit to […]
London (TIP): A rocket engine exploded in flames during a test at the SaxaVord Spaceport in Scotland, which last year became Britain’s first licensed vertical rocket launch site. BBC footage showed a large explosion late […]
BANGKOK (TIP): Thailand’s main opposition party relaunched on August 9 with a new name and leader, after its old version won the popular vote in last year’s elections but was forced by a court to […]
BERLIN (TIP): All Russian opposition politician Ilya Yashin had with him when he was released from his penal colony in a swap was his toothbrush, a tube of toothpaste, his expired passport and the prison […]
Vinhedo, Sao Paulo state, Brazil (TIP): A plane carrying 58 passengers and four crew crashed on August 9 in Brazil’s Sao Paulo state, killing everyone on board, local officials said. The aircraft, a French-made ATR […]
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