August2016

News Hour: Lilia Burunciuc, the new World Bank Director for Central Asia, made an introductory visit to Tajikistan on August 11-12, 2016. Ms. Burunciuc brings a wide range of development experience to the job. A Moldovan...

News Hour: 19-year-old Keeping Up With Kardashians star Kylie Jenner Celebrated her birthday party with boyfriend Tyga at the Bahamas and also put on a bootiful display as she showed off her incredible bottom in a...

News Hour: The World Bank announced today that the People’s Bank of China (PBOC) has approved the World Bank’s inaugural issue in the Chinese domestic market of bonds denominated in Special Drawing Rights (SDRs). The World...

News Hour: IOM Egypt has organized a three-day peer educators training on various health issues with the aim of disseminating information to the broader migrant community and referring migrants to relevant public health services. Attendees included...

News Hour: Japan on Friday celebrated gymnast Kohei Uchimura’s all-around gold medal at the Rio Olympics with banner headlines, endless reruns of his final routine, and the sale of commemorative stamps for which hundreds queued in...

News Hour: U.S. Football team goalkeeper Hope Solo called Sweden “a bunch of cowards” after they knocked the United States out of the Olympic women’s football tournament on penalties on Friday. “I think we showed a...

News Hour: The great American swimmer Michael Phelps made that abundantly clear on Friday after winning the 27th Olympic medal of his career, a three-way dead-heat silver in the men’s 100 meters butterfly, reports Reuters. “No,”...

News Hour: Patrick Bordier, physiotherapist with the French national tennis team since 2014, collapsed and died in Rio on Friday, the president of France’s Olympic Committee (CNOSF) said, reports BSS. “Patrick Bordier died suddenly this afternoon,”...

News Hour: The latest edition of the Arab Expatriate Exchange features two Olympic athletes with ties to North Africa: Olympic gold-medal winning swimmer Oussama Mellouli from Tunisia and Sarah Ourahmoune, a French citizen of Algerian ancestry...

News Hour: England opener Alex Hales has been fined 15 per cent of his match fee for breaching the ICC Code of Conduct during the opening day’s play in the fourth Test against Pakistan at The...