August2016

News Hour: Over 90,000 Iraqis have been displaced in the Mosul Corridor as military operations continue in preparedness for the liberation of Mosul. This includes over 82,600 IDPs who have been displaced from Salah al-Din (Baiji...

News Hour: Swiss pharmaceutical giant Roche said on Monday that US regulators had issued emergency authorisation to use its not-yet-approved diagnostic test for detecting the Zika virus in certain circumstances, reports BSS. The US Food and...

News Hour: Australian Olympic athletes cast off their Rio woes as they embarked on a nationwide “Welcome home” tour on Monday, starting with a samba-themed appearance at the Sydney Opera House, reports BSS. Australia returned with...

News Hour: A South African hotelier said on Monday he had picked up a piece of aircraft wreckage off the Mozambican coast in the latest possible find of debris from the missing MH370 flight, reports BSS....

News Hour: A group of 160 asylum seekers left Greece recently and arrived safely in France with IOM’s support under the European Union’s Relocation Programme. The group comprised 128 Syrians, 30 Iraqis, and two stateless individuals....

News Hour: Almost 20,000 people who have fled from war-torn Yemen will receive protection and emergency assistance through a USD 10 million project funded by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia through the King Salman Humanitarian Aid...

News Hour: Put the rubbish out, get the shopping done, win an Olympic gold medal, That was the to-do list of Monica Puig, the 22-year-old whose victory in the women’s singles in Rio earlier this month...

News Hour: Bangladesh and Afghanistan will play their first-ever bilateral ODI series in September, the Afghanistan Cricket Board and BCB confirmed on Sunday. The two sides will play the three-match series on September 25, 28 and...

News Hour: Half-centurion George Bailey starred in Australia’s tense run chase as the visitors edged past Sri Lanka by two wickets in the third one-day international and took a 2-1 lead in Dambulla on Sunday, reports...

News Hour: A teenage pregnancy prevention programme involving a baby simulator does not appear to have any long-term effect on reducing the risk of teenage pregnancy, according to the first randomised controlled trial to test the...