August2016

News Hour: Two earthquakes hit the northern Indian state of Himachal Pradesh on Saturday, a senior disaster management official said, reports BSS. However, there have been no reports of any casualty or damage to properties in...

News Hour: The new unity government of Youssef Chahed won resounding support from parliament on Friday, approving a new cabinet line-up which must tackle the country’s pressing socio-economic and security challenges, reports BSS. After a long...

News Hour: Claudio Bravo must wait to make his Manchester City debut as he prepares to watch his new club’s home Premier League game with West Ham United on Sunday from the stands at the Etihad...

News Hour: Facebook said on Friday it is further automating its “trending” stories feature, a move that will scale back human input to prevent personal bias from influencing which stories get highlighted, reports BSS. The social...

News Hour: The UN Security Council on Friday strongly condemned North Korea for test-firing ballistic missiles and agreed to take “significant measures” in response the latest series of launches, reports BSS. The 15-member council issued the...

News Hour: Polish discus thrower Piotr Malachowski, who took silver at the Rio Olympics, said that he auctioned off his medal this week to fund treatment for a three-year-old boy struck with cancer, reports BSS. The...

News Hour: Tropical Storm Lester off the northwest Mexican coast strengthened to hurricane status on Friday, the US National Hurricane Center said, reports BSS. The center of Lester is located some 550 miles (885 kilometers) southwest...

News Hour: Bangladeshi police say they have stormed a hideout near Dhaka and killed the suspected planner of a cafe attack last month that left 22 people dead, reports BBC. “Tamim Chowdhury is dead,” said senior...

News Hour: Representatives of South American governments met this week in Montevideo, Uruguay, in preparation for the XVI South American Conference on Migration (SCM) to be held 3-4 November in Paraguay’s capital, Asunción. Delegates from Argentina,...

News Hour: USAID and IOM have donated 19 computers with battery backups to the National Institute for Migration (INM) of Honduras. This equipment will optimize data collection and contribute to more orderly and safe migration in...