September2016

News Hour: A new $500 million World Bank loan will help create jobs in Upper Egypt by enhancing the business climate and improving infrastructure and the delivery of services. The Upper Egypt Local Development Program, approved...

News Hour: Grameenphone Ltd. celebrated its Customer First Day with over 700 students and teachers at the Dhaka Residential Model College (DRMC) in Dhaka, Bangladesh on September 29. The event, held at the college premises from...

News Hour: “She’s married to a man who was the worst abuser of women in the history of politics,” Donald Trump said at a rally in Spokane, Washington. “She’s married to a man who hurt many...

News Hour: With tiger farms in Asia coming in for increasing global scrutiny, important progress was made towards closing them at CITES CoP17 today, restarting a process that had been stalled since 2007 – when the...

News Hour: Bulgaria’s parliament has approved a nationwide law banning the wearing of face-covering veils from most public places. The legislation, pushed by the nationalist Patriotic Front coalition and passed on Friday, echoes similar moves in...

News Hour: Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc said a combination therapy containing its flagship eye drug, Eylea, was inferior to Eylea alone in a mid-stage trial involving patients with wet age-related macular degeneration (AMD), a leading cause of...

News Hour: The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said on Thursday it had concluded an investigation into a multi-state E.coli outbreak linked to flour produced at a General Mills Inc plant in Kansas...

News Hour: In reaction to UN Human Rights Council decision not to set up an independent inquiry to investigate human rights violations by all sides to the conflict in Yemen, Sajjad Mohammed Sajid, Oxfam Country Director...

News Hour: On 28 September 2016 the Director General of WHO and the Administrator of the US Environment Protection Agency signed a new Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on cooperation on environmental health. Under the MOU, WHO...

News Hour: Israelis, along with several world leaders, gathered in Jerusalem on Friday for the funeral of former President Shimon Peres. US President Barack Obama, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, French President Francois Hollande, German President Joachim...