POLITICS & POLICY

A conditional agreement for a fair trial can make both sides happy.

Apart from Russia in Europe, the United States will have to contend with the rising Asian power that is China and a new report indicates that Beijing’s military build-up activities that started in the 1990s are paying off – the Chinese are fast closing the gap on the once unchallenged U.S. air might.

Russia has developed a line of anti-ballistic missile systems as well as an early warning system to counter a potential first stage massive strike by the United States.

In just a little over a year in power, Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott's honeymoon with Aussie voters is definitely over.The latest survey by Fairfax Ipsos showed that Opposition leader Bill Shorten had not only overtaken Mr Abbott in terms of voting intentions if an election would be held today as the PM's personal approval rating tumbled down by 12 points.

The Canadian Embassy in Cairo was closed on Dec 8 for security concerns.

Marines trained in an urban setting can sharpen their vital skills before getting inducted in forward deployments.

Today's world leaders greatly "underestimate or insufficiently understand" the risks posed by nuclear weapons, a letter addressed to the Vienna Conference on the Humanitarian Impact of Nuclear Weapons said.

Russia admitted ownership of the heavy military transport aircraft that got intercepted in Nigeria over the weekend, but not its cargo.

Priortising a low traffic motor way over the rail link looks unjustified.

Finland has contradicted an EU stand against Russia when it approved its joint venture nuclear power plant project with the latter.

The Indian prime minister turned out to be a clear favourite among readers.

Australia's first Equality Minister Martin Foley has vowed to amend state adoption laws to allow same-sex couples to adopt children.

Russia’s increasingly tense relationship with the U.S. and the West appears to indicate that Vladimir Putin has no intentions of backing down and is all geared up for a showdown, likely involving nuclear weapons, with America and NATO.

The protests are a wake up call for the government to act more responsibly on climate issues.

This is a pragmatic suggestion than dragging the world to war like situations.

Canada has only a limited mandate in anti ISIS air strikes, to be in Iraq for a period of six months.

Russian intelligence tactics in Ukraine and its neighbouring countries have been compared to the past KGB strategy in the Cold War.

Russia's talking with Serbia and Hungary for possible energy cooperation deals.

Two al-Qaeda hostages were killed after the U.S. military had failed in its rescue mission on Saturday, December 6.

John Maguire, a jihadist from Ottawa now in the Islamic State, has called on fellow Canadian-Muslims to launch lone-wolf attacks in Canada.

Twitter users have asked people not to believe in the hoax.

The ill-fated Malaysia Airlines MH17 was accidentally shot down July this year by the Ukrainian air force and the tragedy according to new reports was the direct result of Kiev’s failed bid to assassinate Russian president Vladimir Putin.

Dotcom presents the woes of a web entrepreneur, targeted by big corporations in the name of copy right violations.

Elder Republicans want to show more statesmanship and add a new image to the grand old party.

The proposed merger of Burger King and Tim Hortons has been approved by Canadian regulators.

The new prosititution law makes buying sex a criminal act.

A NATO expert on counter-propaganda said Russia is winning the information war vs. the United States, NATO and its allies in the Baltic regions.

U.S. officials fear the rapid development of China's hypersonic Mach 10 missile.

It will help in expanding and diversifying the city economy.