Tehran: President Hassan Rouhani re-entered Iran’s feverish debate on Internet censorship and gender segregation on Sunday, saying neither policy was in the country’s interest. Rouhani was elected last year having pledged to be more moderate on social issues after his conservative predecessor Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s eight-year tenure, but he has encounteredRead More

London: Queen Elizabeth II is very concerned that Scotland will vote for independence from the UK this month and is receiving daily updates on the situation, a media report said on Sunday. Buckingham Palace aides and ministers close to the 88-year-old British monarch told ‘The Sunday Times’ that the prospectRead More

Baghdad/Tbilisi: U.S. warplanes carried out four strikes on Islamic State insurgents menacing Iraq`s Haditha Dam on Sunday, witnesses and officials said, widening what President Barack Obama called a campaign to curb and ultimately defeat the jihadist movement. Obama has branded Islamic State an acute threat to the West as wellRead More

Washington: US President Barack Obama now admits that his decision to play a vacation round of golf immediately after addressing the murder of US journalist James Foley by Islamic State, was a mistake. “I should have anticipated the optics,” Obama said in an interview with NBC`s “Meet the Press” onRead More

Ottawa,Stephen Harper has offered up a defence in the face of an onslaught of criticism from former prime minister Brian Mulroney. Mulroney sternly rebuked the government for its approach to foreign policy in an interview with CTV. On the 30th anniversary of his historic majority election win, the 75-year-old MulroneyRead More

Toronto, Dr. David McKeown, Toronto’s chief medical officer, has issued the city’s first heat alert of the year with temperatures forecast to reach a high of 32 C and humidex values near 40. The public is advised to stay cool and hydrated and wear loose, light-coloured clothing. The city isRead More

Aurora- Four men are facing charges after police say more than 40 vehicles were stolen from commuter parking lots across the Greater Toronto Area. York Regional Police began an investigation in early June into what they say were “multiple sophisticated auto thefts” from the parking lots. Investigators say the thievesRead More

Toronto, The average Torontonian takes more trips on public transit than residents in other major cities, but when it comes to the amount of rapid transit available per capita Toronto has some catching up to do, according to a new report from an environmental think tank. The report from theRead More

Toronto,Doug Ford has released a security camera video that captured parts of the encounter between a visitor to the Ford campaign office and a volunteer who has since been charged with assault. The incident happened on the afternoon of Wednesday, Sept. 3 when 43-year-old Paul Benoit, a self-described citizen journalist,Read More

Toronto,John Tory used a mayoral debate hosted by the Toronto Region Board of Trade Thursday to tout the benefits of his SmartTrack proposal while Rob Ford repeatedly called the rapid transit plan “backtrack” and preached that “subways are the way to go.” The debate at the Hilton on Richmond StreetRead More