July2016

News Hour: Gunmen killed 11 relatives, including five girls, in a northern Mexican city plagued by drug cartels on Saturday while three people from another family were murdered in a second attack, reports BSS. The two...

News Hour: Barcelona have launched a campaign in support of Lionel Messi and his father Jorge after the Argentine pair were sentenced to prison terms this week over tax fraud, reports Reuters. The campaign, under the...

News Hour: Japanese voters headed to the polls on Sunday to cast their ballot in a parliamentary election with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s ruling party expected to cruise to victory despite lukewarm support, reports BSS. Abe,...

News Hour: Asian Development Bank (ADB) President Takehiko Nakao today met with Philippine Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez III and Socioeconomic Planning Secretary Ernesto Pernia to congratulate them on their appointments. He expressed support for the new...

News Hour: The Minnesota police officer whose fatal shooting of a black driver this week helped prompt nationwide protests against racial prejudice reacted to the man’s gun, not his race, his lawyer said on Saturday, reports...

News Hour: A new study into an ancient sea worm called Oesia offers clues about a common ancestor which they shared with vertebrates, including humans, while also showing that the worms inhabited tube-like “dwellings” on the...

News Hour: A tropical storm made landfall in China on Saturday afternoon, the country’s national meteorological center said, a day after super Typhoon Nepartak lashed Taiwan with powerful winds and torrential rain, reports BSS. Nepartak, which...

News Hour: Gunfire erupted near the presidential palace in South Sudan’s capital Juba on Friday, further straining a shaky ceasefire the day after five soldiers were killed, reports BSS President Salva Kiir and his deputy, former...

News Hour: North Korea on Saturday appeared to have test-fired a submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM), Seoul’s defence ministry said, a day after the US and South Korea decided to deploy an advanced missile defence system in...

News Hour: More than 60 civilians were killed by shelling and air strikes in the northwest of Syria on Friday, a monitoring group said, hours before the end of a shaky ceasefire for the Eid al-Fitr...