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Russian drone attack kills five, wounds 12 in Ukraine’s second-largest Kharkiv city
KYIV (TIP): A nighttime Russian attack using Iranian-designed drones killed four people and wounded 12 in Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, local authorities said. Shahed drones smashed into two apartment buildings in the city near the […]
‘Bracing for conflict’: Armenians fear Azerbaijani land claims
VOSKEPAR (TIP): Peering through the window at a bustling crowd outside the Voskepar village council in northeastern Armenia, mayor Ishkhan Aghbalyan said locals are on edge over arch-foe Azerbaijan’s claims to their lands. The small […]
World Central Kitchen founder says Israel targeted staff in Gaza ‘car by car’
GAZA (TIP):World Central Kitchen (WCK) founder José Andrés has accused Israeli forces in Gaza of targeting his aid workers “systematically, car by car”, the BBC reports. Monday’s strike which killed seven members of his staff […]
Uganda court to rule on harsh anti-gay law
KAMPALA (TIP): Uganda’s Constitutional Court is due to rule April 3 on a petition seeking to annul an anti-gay law that has been roundly condemned as one of the toughest in the world. The legislation […]
UK court says Assange can’t be extradited on espionage charges until US rules out death penalty
LONDON (TIP): A British court ruled March 26 that Julian Assange can’t be extradited to the United States on espionage charges unless U.S. authorities guarantee he won’t get the death penalty, giving the WikiLeaks founder […]
50 years after former Yugoslavia protected abortion rights, that legacy is under threat
ZAGREB (TIP): With vigils outside clinics, marches drawing thousands and groups of men kneeling to pray in public squares, religious and neo-conservative groups have been ramping up pressure to ban abortions in staunchly Catholic Croatia. […]
Bus plunges off a bridge in South Africa, killing 45 people. An 8-year-old is only survivor
CAPE TOWN (TIP): A bus carrying worshippers headed to an Easter festival plunged off a bridge on a mountain pass and burst into flames in South Africa on March 28, killing at least 45 people, […]