March2017

News Hour: Iraqi government forces fighting to drive Islamic State from western Mosul on Tuesday recaptured the main government building, the central bank branch and the museum where three years ago the militants had smashed statues...

News Hour: China on Tuesday called for an immediate ceasefire between ethnic rebels and Myanmar security forces in a restive border area, urging the two sides to resolve their differences through peaceful means instead. China is...

News Hour: Yasser Usman, the writer of Rekha – The Untold Story, has denied reports that the actress was married to Sanjay Dutt and applies vermillion in his name. Many publications referred writer Usman’s book as...

News Hour: Sri Lanka won the toss and chose to bat first, owing to a preference to bowl last on what is expected to become a spin-friendly surface. Mushfiqur Rahim said he would have batted first...

News Hour: Lucknow Zone Police arrested an aide of rape-accused absconding Uttar Pradesh minister Gayatri Prajapati. A Satish Ganesh, inspector general (IG) of police, Lucknow Zone, said head constable Chanderpal, who was deployed as shadow with...

News Hour: Ben Carson, the new secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), on Monday referred to slaves brought to the United States against their will as “immigrants,” drawing quick condemnation from...

News Hour: Malaysia will not allow North Korean citizens to leave the country with immediate effect, Deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi said on Tuesday, in a tit-for-tat step as a row escalated over the Malaysian...

News Hour: A family from Afghanistan detained on their arrival in Los Angeles last week despite holding special visas granted for the father’s service to the U.S. government in that country has been released, their attorneys...

News Hour: Long-awaited legislation to dismantle Obamacare was unwrapped on Monday by U.S. Republicans, who called for ending health insurance mandates and rolling back extra healthcare funding for the poor in a package that drew immediate...

News Hour: France’s advertising watchdog on Monday said it had asked French fashion house Yves Saint Laurent to modify two ads from its latest campaign after receiving 50 complaints that they were “degrading” to women. One...