POLITICS & POLICY

Russia has just abducted an officer in Estonia, where political experts believed could be a prelude to an incursion in the small state anytime soon.

This is a serious charge and National too puts Labour on the defensive saying there was no defence policy when that party was in power.

The UN needs to evolve mechanisms to fix such cases before engaging in a public debate

The announcement of EU sanctions on Russia should have preceded wider internal consultations

Employees of social media platform Twitter are in danger of being assassinated by members of an ISIS-affiliated group. The radical militants were angered when Twitter employees closed down their accounts.

A truncated Britain will be reduced to a lesser force in international affairs

U.S. authorities working to identify the man behind the black-masked Jihadi John, executioner of American journalist James Foley, said they hope to release his true identity to the world within days before he gets killed out on the battlefield.

Iraq has a new government in the face of Shiite Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi.

Jodie Emery, wife of Canadian "Prince of Pot" Marc Emery, has on Monday filed to run under the Liberal Party in Vancouver East in the next federal election.

A Jihadi flag auctioned in a crowded Sydney mosque was sold for $2000.

US President faced a press barrage about enjoying a golf trip after meeting the Foleys last month.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has been christened by the head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church as the modern Cain of the old Biblical times. Moreso, Mr Putin had been doing his invasion into Ukraine because the church believes he is guided and has been allegedly possessed by Satan.

Abuse of official power to suppress the Opposition is an assault on democracy and polity

Malaysia needs to assuage the concerns of the kin by instituting a fresh enquiry with an international panel.

USA never wanted to lose its grip on the Middle East

Afghanistan has been discovered to be sitting atop a whopping $1 trillion worth of rare earths and other metals and minerals.

When EU itself is reeling under an economic slowdown, how far this will deter Russia needs to be seen

A study by the London-based small-arms research organisation Conflict Armament Research has revealed that the Islamic State jihadi fighters appear to be using weapons that were U.S.-made but captured as they seized large swath of areas in Iraq and Syria.

High school students affected by the ongoing teachers' strike in B.C., Canada have staged their own protest actions to call on the attention of both government and educators.

A Pakistani sailor had jumped into crocodile-infested waters during war games off the Northern Territory. He managed to avoid the crocodiles and swam away.

Russian military buzzed Canadian warship HMCS Toronto while it was participating in a NATO exercise on Sunday.

Toronto Mayor Rob Ford has promised that he would complete the Sheppard subway in case he gets re-elected. The promise, which he made on Monday, was the same promise he had made in 2010 during his successful election campaign.

Six months after the mysterious disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, no sign of the wreckage is yet to be seen. Investigators continue to consider 1,000 possible flight patterns the plane might have taken before the crash.

The Australian government has a taxpayer-paid relationship counselling programme that includes sex advice from no less than Prime Minister Tony Abbott. However, reports say that some Aussies are finding it hard to swallow lessons on intimacy from a man who studied how to be a priest and applies conservative Catholic standards to government policy on issues like same-sex marriage.

New Zealand ambassador to Israel Jonathan Curr has canceled his trip to Israel because the Israeli Foreign Ministry objected his "dual credentials." Curr was also supposed to present his credentials to the Palestine Authority.

The offer for more autonomy to Scotland could have been discussed a bit earlier.

The stimulus as well as the efforts at streamlining business financing for SMEs may yield positive results.

Three Punjabi radio stations may be banned by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission.

U.S. filmmaker Michael Moore asked Toronto voters to vote their mayor Rob Ford out this time.