The conservative party leadership contest is heating up with the final result due next month. The contenders, foreign secretary Jeremy Hunt and gadfly MP Boris Johnson are fighting hard to secure the top job in the country.

As the race to select the next leader of the conservative party– and by extension Britain’s next Prime Minister – reaches its final stages, it is worthwhile examining the system’s weaknesses if only to underline the superficial nature of British democracy.

Putting Machiavelli's teachings in perspective, you can see his theories in European politics are still alive and enforced.

Thousands of Algerians have taken to the streets for the 14th successive Friday to demand a sweeping political overhaul.

UK's Tory government’s failure on Brexit is helping Labour and anti-EU parties gain more public support at its expense.

Many people in Asian and African countries are using mobile phones to get their online news and in those regions, social media is even more important as a source of news.

Nasrallah says the new Lebanese national unity government is not controlled by Hezbollah resistance movement.

An academic says the US is concerned over Hezbollah's growing influence in Lebanon and prefers to see a new civil war among different Lebanese factions.

Lebanese President Michel Aoun says a solution would be found to the government formation stalemate.

An investigative report has shown that leftwing groups in the UK were spied on by police for decades.