BEIJING (TIP): Former Chinese defense minister Li Shangfu was expelled from the ruling Communist Party and is being investigated for corruption and bribery, the official Xinhua news agency reported on June 27. The Defense Ministry […]
DEIR AL-BALAH (TIP): Children in sandals trudge through water contaminated with sewage and scale growing mounds of garbage in Gaza’s crowded tent camps for displaced families. People relieve themselves in burlap-covered pits, with nowhere nearby […]
LA PAZ, BOLIVIA (TIP): Led by a top general vowing to “restore democracy,” armored vehicles rammed the doors of Bolivia’s government palace on June 26 in what the president called a coup attempt, then quickly […]
JENIN, West Bank (TIP): When Mujahid Abadi stepped outside to see if Israeli forces had entered his uncle’s neighborhood, he was shot in the arm and the foot. That was only the start of his […]
London (TIP): Stefan Stern, City, University of London. Grant Shapps is running. The Tory MP has held what seems like every ministerial post possible and is famous in Westminster for his command of spreadsheets and […]
KYIV (TIP): During daytime, entire districts of Ukraine’s capital are disconnected from the power grid to save energy. Traffic lights stop, choking traffic, accompanied by the constant rumble of generators installed outside cafes and shops. […]
TOKYO (TIP): Kazuko Shiraishi, a leading name in modern Japanese “beat” poetry, known for her dramatic readings, at times with jazz music, has died. She was 93. Shiraishi, whom American poet and translator Kenneth Rexroth […]
SEOUL (TIP): South Korea said on June 20 that it would consider sending arms to Ukraine, a major policy change suggested after Russia and North Korea rattled the region and beyond by signing a pact […]
Seoul (TIP): North Korea launched hundreds of more trash-carrying balloons toward the South after a similar campaign a few days earlier, according to South Korea‘s military, in what Pyongyang calls retaliation for activists flying anti-North […]
Johannesburg (TIP): Top officials in South Africa’s African National Congress (ANC) have had initial talks with representatives of five other parties over a coalition or other agreement to form a government, but no decision has […]
Kyiv (TIP): In Kyiv’s ongoing effort to disrupt the Kremlin’s war machine, Ukrainian drones struck an oil refinery and a fuel depot in Russian border regions, officials in the targeted areas said on June 6. […]
London (TIP): Over 10,000 asylum seekers have arrived in Britain in small boats so far this year, updated government data showed on May 24, underlining a key challenge facing Prime Minister Rishi Sunak ahead of […]
Seoul (TIP): Nuclear envoys of South Korea, the US and Japan on May 28 strongly condemned North Korea’s latest attempt to launch a military spy satellite, casting it as a blatant violation of UN resolutions […]
Brussels (TIP): Belgium’s federal prosecutor’s office said on Wednesday that police carried out searches at the residence of an employee of the European Parliament and at his office in the Parliament’s building in Brussels over […]
Hong Kong (TIP): Fourteen pro-democracy activists were convicted in Hong Kong’s biggest national security case on May 30 by a court that said their plan to effect change through an unofficial primary election would have […]
Beijing (TIP): Chinese President Xi Jinping reiterated calls for the establishment of an independent Palestinian state and promised more humanitarian aid for people in Gaza as he opened a summit with leaders of Arab states […]
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