Russian roulette
Putin's United Russia Party won Russian parliamentary elections on Sunday even as the country was reeling from a train blast which claimed the lives of 44 innocent people in southern Russia, reports Shohdy Naguib from Moscow

India-Pakistan thaw
India and Pakistan now have an opportunity and an incentive to mend fences, reports Sudhanshu Ranjan from New Delhi

Homeward bound?
A Greek Cypriot's decades-long struggle to return home has important repercussions for refugees worldwide, writes Michael Jansen from Nicosia