March2017

News Hour: Some 600 million children – or 1 in 4 children worldwide – will be living in areas with extremely limited water resources by 2040, according to a UNICEF report released on World Water Day. The...

News Hour: Before he killed at least four people in Britain’s deadliest attack since the 2005 London bombings, Khalid Masood was considered by intelligence officers to be a criminal who posed little serious threat. A British-born...

News Hour: Bulgarian nationalists blocked border checkpoints with Turkey on Friday to stop buses bringing Bulgarian ethnic Turks to vote in Sunday’s election amid growing tension between the two neighbors. Sofia has accused Ankara of interference...

News Hour: In January 2017, the Bocholt-based haulage firm Spedition Hillert acquired four MAN TGX 18.460, including the first TGX Efficient Line 3 produced by MAN, and its 500th MAN truck. Three-quarters of the MAN branded...

News Hour: By 2020, Scania will globally utilize fossil free electricity wherever possible. This is Scania’s pledge for Earth Hour 2017. All electricity supplied for its operations in Denmark, France, Norway, Poland and Sweden is already...

News Hour: A suicide attack has been carried out on a police check post at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport intersection in Dhaka at 8pm Friday. Assistant Commissioner of police (Airport) Ruhul Amin Shagor said a suicide...

News Hour: Vietnam officially decided to suspend the imports of meat, livestock and poultry products from 21 factories of Brazil which have been under suspicion of using unhygienic substance, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and...

News Hour: Japan deployed hundreds of soldiers to help cull more than 280,000 chickens on Friday, officials said as they try to contain further outbreaks of a highly contagious strain of avian flu. The latest slaughter...

News Hour: China confirmed an outbreak of H7N9 bird flu at a poultry farm in Hunan province in the southern part of the country, according to a Ministry of Agriculture statement on Friday. The outbreak in...

News Hour: The number of electric car charging points for public use in Germany rose by 27 percent last year, including hundreds of more fast-charging units, amid efforts to boost the technology across Europe. Germany now...