December2016
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Obama to meet lawmakers in attempt to protect health law
Dec 31, 2016News Hour: President Barack Obama plans to meet Democratic lawmakers in Congress next week to discuss how to protect his signature healthcare law from Republican efforts to dismantle it, a White House official said on Friday.... -
Festivities begin to welcome 2017
Dec 31, 2016News Hour: Celebrations have begun as people around the world ring in the New Year. From Sydney to Pyongyang, festive crowds gathered to say goodbye to 2016, a tumultuous year in global politics. Earlier, Auckland in... -
Announces incentives, India’s PM Modi defends cash ban
Dec 31, 2016News Hour: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced a slew of incentives to the poor, farmers, women and small businesses on Saturday in a special New Year’s address, and defended his shock decision to abolish high... -
Nigeria’s Buhari says will pursue peace in restive Niger Delta in 2017
Dec 31, 2016News Hour: Nigeria’s government will seek a lasting peace settlement with militants in the oil-producing southern Niger Delta region in 2017, President Muhammadu Buhari said in a New Year’s message on Saturday. Attacks on oil facilities... -
Posh Spice and Andy Murray honored in Queen’s New Year List
Dec 31, 2016News Hour: Olympic athlete Mo Farah, tennis star Andy Murray, actor Mark Rylance, comedian Ken Dodd and Kinks musician Ray Davies have been knighted in Queen Elizabeth’s New Year’s Honors List. Spice Girl and designer Victoria... -
Xinhua: Chinese firms ordered to pay Disney, Pixar $194,000 for copying ‘Cars’
Dec 31, 2016News Hour: A Shanghai court ordered two Chinese firms to pay Walt Disney Co and Pixar more than 1.35 million yuan ($194,440) compensation for copying parts of their hit movies “Cars” and “Cars 2”, the official... -
Disney’s Bambi artist Tyrus Wong dies at 106
Dec 31, 2016News Hour: Tyrus Wong, best known for his sketches for the Walt Disney animated feature “Bambi”, died Friday, according to a statement released by The Walt Disney Family Museum. Wong was 106, reports CNN. “Legendary Disney artist... -
Wedding vows a blessing for clean-up of filthy Indonesian river
Dec 31, 2016News Hour: Only a year ago, this stretch of the Ciliwung river in Indonesia’s capital was foul-smelling and clogged by a thick layer of floating plastic and other trash. Now, after a clean-up involving hundreds of... -
Shanghai court ordered 2 chinese firms to pay Disney and Pixar $194,440 for copying Cars
Dec 31, 2016News Hour: A Shanghai court ordered two Chinese firms to pay Walt Disney Co and Pixar more than 1.35 million yuan ($194,440) compensation for copying parts of their hit movies “Cars” and “Cars 2”, the official... -
London street artist Pegasus paints memorial for George Michael
Dec 31, 2016News Hour: Street artist Pegasus has paid tribute to George Michael with a mural of the Wham! singer, who died on last Sunday aged 53. The artwork near a graffiti park in Shoreditch, in east London,...
