July2016

News Hour: Seventeen labourers have died and about a dozen others are fighting for their lives in northern India after drinking toxic homemade liquor, police said on Sunday, in the latest incident of alcohol poisoning in...

News Hour: A 5.0 magnitude earthquake shook Tokyo and large ares of eastern Japan on Sunday, the US Geological Survey said, but there were no immediate reports of damage or casualties, reports BSS. The quake hit...

News Hour: A man claiming to have escaped North Korea was being held under police protection after he was found wandering in a city in western Japan, local media reported on Sunday, reports BSS. The man...

News Hour: Thousands took to the streets of Turkey on Saturday in support of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, after authorities crushed a military coup that claimed at least 265 lives, reports BSS. After facing down the...

News Hour: France has called on young “patriots” to join the reserves following an IS-claimed truck attack in Nice which killed 84 and prompted tough questions over security failures, reports BSS. Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve made...

News Hour: Heavy rains and flash floods in Sudan’s war-torn region of Darfur killed nine people on Saturday, the official SUNA news agency reported. The deaths occurred in the town of El-Fasher, the capital of the state...

News Hour: The United States warned its citizens against travel to Turkey on Saturday after authorities crushed a military coup that claimed at least 265 lives, reports BSS. “The US Department of State warns US citizens...

News Hour: The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors approved $150 million in financing for a $317.5 million project supporting urban development, urban transport and climate change resilience in China’s Ningbo Municipality, one of the nation’s...

News Hour: Despite a pick-up in domestic consumption, GDP growth slowed in Q1 because of slower inventory build-up, according to the July edition of the World Bank’s Turkey Regular Economic Brief*, issued today in Ankara. The...

News Hour: Civilians in Juba are facing an uncertain calm since a ceasefire was declared on Monday night, ending days of intense fighting that killed at least 300 people and forced thousands to flee their homes...