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New Zealand MP performs Haka dance in Parliament in protest over Treaty Bill
Sydney (TIP): New Zealand’s parliament was briefly suspended on November 14 after a powerful haka, performed by Maori MPs, disrupted a vote on a controversial bill seeking to reinterpret the country’s 184-year-old Treaty of Waitangi. […]
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China willing to be partners, friends with US, Chinese envoy says
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 […]
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Japanese Princess Yuriko dies at 101
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 […]
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Violence at Hindu Temple: Brampton Mayor wants a Bill to prohibit protests outside places of worship as Ruby Sahota MP raises it in the House of Commons
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 […]
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Pope’s child protection board urges transparency from Vatican sex abuse office and compensation
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 […]
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At least 126 dead and missing in massive flooding, landslides in Philippines
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 […]
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As Israel strikes deeper into Lebanon, fear rises in communities where the displaced took refuge
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 […]
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Japan’s ruling coalition loses majority in the lower house, creating political uncertainty
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 […]
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Israel strikes residential building in northern Gaza, kills 93 Palestinians, mostly women and children
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 […]
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Hezbollah names deputy head Naim Qassem to succeed slain leader
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 […]
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Italy makes it illegal to seek surrogacy abroad, activists say it targets LGBTQ community
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 […]
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UK government to impose sanctions on Israeli ministers
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 […]
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Britain’s Lammy hopes for ‘constructive’ dialogue with China
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 […]
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Jagmeet-led NDP bails minority Liberal government through 2nd no-confidence
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 […]
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Lebanese state media says an Israeli strike killed 23 Syrian workers
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 […]