SASKATOON – Police in Saskatoon say there was no bomb on the latest Canadian plane that was the target of a threat. An explosives team has completed its search of the jet and determined that there was no explosive device on board. The plane was travelling from Toronto to SaskatoonRead More

OTTAWA — Canada’s federal leaders were waving the flag and priming their political messages Wednesday on a Canada Day that landed smack in the build-up to this year’s election campaign. Prime Minister Stephen Harper delivered the traditional midday remarks from Parliament Hill’s main stage, but also borrowed a line fromRead More

OTTAWA – A left-leaning advocacy organization and a national student group will be in Ontario Superior Court on Thursday and Friday hoping to relax voter identification rules for the looming federal election. The court factum prepared by the Council of Canadians and the Canadian Federation of Students argues that tensRead More

WASHINGTON, UNITED STATES: “Tanned. Rested. Ready.” That is Indian-American Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal’s new 2016 presidential campaign slogan and the “tanned” part is supposed to be a reference to his skin tone. “The liberal media that developed this week was disgusting: Apparently Bobby isn’t brown enough for them,” wrote TimmyRead More

PORT EL KANTAOUI, TUNISA: Tunisia has made its first arrests in connection with last week’s jihadist attack at a beach resort that killed 38 people, Interior Minister Najem Gharsalli said today “We have started by arresting a first group, a significant number of people, from the network that was behindRead More

MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin has pledged to support Syria’s government “politically, economically and militarily,” the war-torn country’s Foreign Minister Walid Muallem said in Moscow today. “I received a promise from President Putin to support Syria politically, economically and militarily,” Muallem said at a press conference with his Russian counterpartRead More

SKHIRAT, MOROCCO: UN envoy Bernardino Leon has said he hoped Libya’s rival parliaments would endorse his proposals for a unity government later this week after they failed to do so at the weekend. Leon said that there were only two or three remaining stumbling blocks and that he hoped thoseRead More

KARACHI: Nearly two-thirds of the victims of a killer heatwave that swept southern Pakistan last week were homeless people, a minister said today, as the death toll in Karachi reached over 1,200. The city of 20 million inhabitants is a sprawling metropolis with few green areas and has scant facilitiesRead More

Jaipur: Mounting pressure on her on the Lalit Modi controversy, Congress today accused Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhra Raje of “forcible, illegal occupation” of the Dholpur Palace along with Lalit Modi through a private company, a charge refuted by BJP. Senior party leader Jairam Ramesh claimed in Delhi that Hemant Singh,Read More

Ahmedabad: BJP president Amit Shah on Sunday said Hindu religion has solution for all the problems in the world. “Hindu religion has solutions for all the problems of the world… I am not saying this because I am born Hindu,” Shah said at Gujarat University convention centre, while unveiling formerRead More