POLITICS & POLICY

It can serve as a deterrent to pirates and some nations trying to flex muscles in the Persian Gulf.

New Zealand's been stricken by a 6.7 magnitude earthquake on Monday, but authorities assured no tsunami will happen after it.

This is Harper's style of handling Russia's expansionism in Ukraine.

NATO has called on Russia to adhere to the regulations concerning international civilian air traffic.

Soaring property prices and rising criminalisation of economy are a fallout of unchecked tax havens and organised tax evasion.

It is good to see New Zealand taking a more responsible approach in climate change and advocating liberal free trade.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that Gandhi was still relevant in the present world.

A Russian official fears President Vladimir Putin's early departure from the recently-concluded G20 Summit in Australia will be taken as a sign of weakness.

The Russian president left the G20 early as he needed to sleep.

Four Australian brothers, aged 17 to 28, have apparently reached Syria to join Islamic State.

New Zealand Prime Minister John Key, along with German Chanceller Angela Merkel, downplayed the movement of Russian warships near Australlia.

The U.S. naval vessels are reportedly monitoring the Russian warships arriving in Australia. The news has triggered speculation of a nuclear submarine as escort.

Already Democrats have lost much of their support base and it remains to be seen how far Obama's executive order can revive that.

Russia plans on sending bomber planes near the U.S. coast for drills as part of its assertion of military presence, a Russian official said.

Israel has fears about its security as it feels international partners are more tilted to Arab interests.

The Australian PM said that he had asked Putin to practise peace.

An official tribunal in New Zealand has revealed in its report that the Maori chiefs in the 19th century did not give up its sovereignty to the Crown.

The long arms of law can catch up with the guilty even after decades.

Russia's energy muscle will keep it insulated from drastic economic shocks.

The brazen escape of the convict has raised doubts about the functioning of the prison systems in New Zealand.

The British PM wants web companies to take their social resposibilties.

The democratic exercise will galvanise the party as the process can eliminate factionalism.

A recent survey claims that Germany is the best country in the world.

Ku Klux Klan's membership is very low, so it reinvents itself to include members from all sections.

Islamic State of Iraq and Syria leader Al-Baghdadi is apparently alive and well in an audio message urging followers to strike everywhere.

The Australian government argued before the UN committee investigating reports of torture on asylum seekers that domestic violence was not a form of torture.

It will be a gradual slide to the era of cavemen, if such practices are encouraged by the civil society.

Sources of religious indoctrination need to be put down with a heavy hand.

The woman's experience in armed forces of Israel and her career as a pilot must have made her bold enough to take that decision.