Toronto, A new Nanos Research poll pegs Toronto mayoral candidate John Tory as the leader of the pack, holding a “significant advantage” before October’s municipal election. Commissioned by CTV News and The Globe and Mail, poll results released Tuesday surveyed 1,000 people between Aug. 27 and 31. Pollsters asked participantsRead More

Ontario,A man who was volunteering at Rob Ford’s mayoral campaign office has been charged following a scuffle with another man wearing a Ford mask. Paul Benoit, 43, said he was trying to be funny when he entered the campaign office with a camera Wednesday afternoon, wearing a mask resembling Ford’sRead More

Newport: US President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron Thursday declared that their nations will “not be cowed” by extremists who killed two American journalists. “We will be more forthright in the defence of our values, not least because a world of greater freedom is a fundamental partRead More

Toronto, Canada will provide up to $4 million for two initiatives to help Ukraine and Canada’s NATO allies counter the threat posed by Russian militarism in the region, Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced today at the NATO summit in Wales. Canada will contribute $1 million through the NATO Trust FundsRead More

Riyadh: A Pakistani national was on Thursday beheaded in Saudi Arabia for smuggling large quantity of heroin into the country, the second execution of a citizen from the South Asian nation in three weeks. Izzat Khan Tor Qul was executed in Jeddah Governorate as he smuggled a large quantity ofRead More

United Nations: The United States is open to a new UN resolution on Gaza but only if it contributes to sustaining the Israeli-Palestinian ceasefire, the US envoy to the United Nations said. Ambassador Samantha Power said that a resolution must “do no harm” to the ceasefire that has been holdingRead More

Kuala Lumpur: A preliminary report on the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 over the war-torn eastern Ukraine that killed all 298 people onboard would be released on September 9. The Dutch Safety Board (OVV) will issue the preliminary report on the investigation into the downing of MH17 on SeptemberRead More

London: British Prime minister David Cameron on Thursday backed air strikes against the terror group ISIS or Islamic State and said that Syrian President Bashar Assad was part of the problem rather then the solution. As per reports, he also said that permission was not needed from Assad to bombRead More

New York: UN’s top peacekeeping official has came out in defence of India’s Lt Gen Iqbal Singh Singha, who has come in for strong criticism from the Philippines military over his handling of operations in Syria after UN troops had come under attack from rebel forces. Filipino media reports saidRead More

Newport/Donetsk: Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and the main pro-Russian rebel leader said they would both order ceasefires on Friday, provided that an agreement is signed on a new peace plan to end the five-month war in Ukraine`s east. The breakthrough came after a week in which the pro-Moscow separatists scoredRead More