December2016

News Hour: Indian central bank Governor Urjit Patel will not appear on Thursday before parliament’s finance committee to brief it on the government’s decision to scrap high-value bank notes, the panel’s chairman said on Wednesday. The...

News Hour: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Wednesday retracted a directive for banks to question individuals depositing more than 5000 rupees ($74) in discontinued currency, just two days after issuing the order. The central...

News Hour: Masroor Nawaz Jhangvi, a Muslim cleric whose father was one of Pakistan’s most infamous sectarian figures, said he has become more moderate and distanced himself from his previous anti-Shia rhetoric after winning a regional...

News Hour: Legendary folk singer and composer Abdul Gafur Hali died of old age complications here at the age of 88 early today, reports BSS. Hali, lyricist of Bangla folk, mystical and local songs, and composer...

News Hour: IOM has identified 1,770,444 people as displaced across Nigeria through its Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM). This is a decrease from the 1,822,541 recorded in late October, reflecting the continuing trend of internally displaced persons...

News Hour: German police are looking for an asylum-seeker from Tunisia after finding an identity document under the driver’s seat of a truck that plowed into a Berlin Christmas market and killed 12 people, officials and...

News Hour: The U.S. government spent more than a decade preparing responses to malicious hacking by a foreign power but had no clear strategy when Russia launched a disinformation campaign over the internet during the U.S....

News Hour: IOM teams are now providing lifesaving humanitarian assistance, including emergency medical support, to displaced and conflict-affected families in insecure and hard-to-reach areas of South Sudan. Response teams are currently operating in the Greater Equatoria...

News Hour: Gunmen attacked the house of an Afghan member of parliament in the capital Kabul on Wednesday night, killing as many as five people, officials said. One police official said three gunmen attacked the house...

News Hour: Buses carrying Syrian civilians and fighters began leaving the last rebel-held enclave of Aleppo on Wednesday after being stalled for a day, aid officials and pro-government media reports said. Obstacles hindering evacuations from east...