July2016

News Hour: US-backed forces have taken control of 40 percent of Manbij after new advances against areas controlled by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in the key Syrian city near the Turkish border,...

News Hour: Tokyo elected the country’s former defence minister, Yuriko Koike, as its first female governor on Sunday, media exit polls show, reports Aljazeera. “I will lead Tokyo politics in an unprecedented manner, a Tokyo you have...

News Hour: Germany’s Federal Office for Motor Vehicles has approved diesel engines of General Motors’ Opel unit, after initial doubts about whether the engine control software was permissible, reports Reuters. Engines of the 2.0 CDTI type...

News Hour: An international team of astronomers has discovered and confirmed a treasure trove of new worlds using NASA’s Kepler spacecraft on its K2 mission. Out of 197 initial planet candidates, scientists have confirmed 104 planets...

News Hour: “AWARE MIGRANTS,” an information campaign jointly developed by the Italian Ministry of Interior and the IOM Coordination Office for the Mediterranean in Rome, was launched yesterday (28 July). It aims to raise awareness among...

News Hour: On 27 July, IOM Turkey and the Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany in Istanbul launched a programme to help reunite up to 35,000 families in the region with a close Syrian...

News Hour: Renault-Nissan Alliance Chairman and CEO Carlos Ghosn confirmed today that the Alliance will invest $800 million in Argentina through 2018. Ghosn’s visit to Argentina is his first since President Mauricio Macri’s inauguration and comes...

News Hour: Protracted conflicts affecting 17 countries have driven millions of people into severe food insecurity and are hindering global efforts to eradicate malnutrition, two UN agencies have warned in a report submitted to the UN...

News Hour: Save the Children has been working with their partner in the region around the clock to keep the bombed maternity hospital in Idlib open. It’s currently operating at a reduced level and only able...

News Hour: At least 26 people, mostly children, were killed on Saturday when a vehicle carrying wedding guests was washed off a mountainous road by floods and flung into a gorge, officials said. The dead included...