February2017
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Iraqi forces push deeper into western Mosul as civilians flee
Feb 25, 2017News Hour: U.S.-backed Iraqi forces pushed deeper into western Mosul on Saturday, advancing in several populated southern districts after punching through the defences of Islamic State’s last major urban stronghold in Iraq a day earlier. About... -
Malaysia to sweep Kuala Lumpur airport for toxic chemicals after Kim Jong Nam murder
Feb 25, 2017News Hour: Malaysia will sweep one of the terminals at Kuala Lumpur international airport for toxic chemicals after Kim Jong Nam was murdered there with a nerve agent last week, as authorities said they would issue... -
Seek Russia help to make nuclear fuel, Iran plans to buy Kazakh uranium ore
Feb 25, 2017News Hour: Iran plans to buy 950 tonnes of uranium ore from Kazakhstan over three years and expects to get Russian help in producing nuclear fuel, its top nuclear official said in remarks published on Saturday.... -
First planned North Korea-U.S. contact in Trump administration canceled
Feb 25, 2017News Hour: Plans for the first contact between North Korea and the United States after President Donald Trump took office were canceled after the U.S. State Department denied a visa for the top envoy from Pyongyang,... -
Historic Washington Marriott Georgetown transformed
Feb 25, 2017News Hour: Washington Marriott Georgetown, the first Marriott hotel built in the nation’s capital in 1981, announces the completion of its $28 million transformations, an investment by the hotel owner, Geller Capital Partners. Representing Marriott Hotels’... -
Drought resistant Potato introduced in Somalia
Feb 25, 2017News Hour: IOM, in partnership with the Rural Education and Agriculture Development Organization (READO), a local NGO, is introducing a drought resistant variant of sweet potatoes which will help mitigate the impact of drought in Somalia.... -
Italy donates EUR 1 million for people affected by conflict in Eastern Ukraine
Feb 25, 2017News Hour: The Government of Italy has donated EUR 1 million to the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and UNICEF to assist people affected by the conflict in Eastern Ukraine in 2017. “The Italian Government... -
Qualified Afghan returnees recognized at Kabul event
Feb 25, 2017News Hour: IOM has organized an event in Kabul to recognize contributions made to the development of Afghanistan by qualified Afghans who returned from Iran through IOM’s “Return of Qualified Afghans” (RQA) programme. Since 2001, IOM... -
Climate change fund launched in Tonga
Feb 25, 2017News Hour: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Government of Tonga today launched Tonga’s first ever Climate Change Trust Fund. Siaosi Sovaleni, Tonga’s Deputy Prime Minister, Lu’isa Tu’I’afitu Malolo, Tonga’s Director of Climate Change, Feleti... -
Iranian-American space experts to step in for Farhadi at Oscars
Feb 25, 2017News Hour: Iranian director Asghar Farhadi has chosen an Iranian-American female engineer and a former NASA scientist to represent his film “The Salesman” at Sunday’s Oscar ceremony, which he is boycotting in protest over U.S. President...
