April2017

News Hour: Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan ruled out on Friday extraditing German-Turkish journalist Deniz Yucel to Germany while he is in office, repeating his assertion that Yucel is a “terrorist agent”. Yucel, a national of both...

News Hour: A California federal judge is set to hear arguments on Friday in a case brought by two large counties requesting the suspension of President Donald Trump’s executive order that seeks to withhold federal funds...

News Hour: North Koreans placed flower baskets and bouquets below portraits of founder president Kim Il Sung on Friday, showing little sign of tension despite fears the reclusive nation may conduct a nuclear test and the...

News Hour: The top U.S. military commander in Afghanistan said on Friday that the decision to deploy one of the largest conventional bombs ever used in combat was purely tactical, and made as part of the...

News Hour: Apple Inc is considering teaming up with its supplier Foxconn to bid for Toshiba Corp’s semiconductor business, public broadcaster NHK said on Friday – the latest twist in the sale of the world’s second-biggest...

News Hour: T-Mobile US Inc bid $8 billion and Dish Network Corp $6.2 billion to win the bulk of broadcast airwaves spectrum for sale in a government auction, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission said on Thursday....

News Hour: Taiwan’s Foxconn has asked for SoftBank Group’s cooperation in its bid for Toshiba Corp’s prized memory chip unit, the Nikkei business daily reported on Friday. Foxconn, known formally as Hon Hai Precision Industry, is...

News Hour: Shares of Tesla jumped nearly 3 percent on Thursday after Chief Executive Elon Musk said the electric car company expects to unveil its planned commercial truck in September. Musk last year announced plans for...

News Hour: Facebook Inc said on Thursday it suspended 30,000 accounts in France as the social network giant steps up efforts to stop the spread of fake news, misinformation, and spam. The move, which comes 10...

News Hour: The World Trade Organization said on Wednesday it expected global trade to rebound slightly in 2017 but warned the threat of protectionism and other uncertainties risked hampering the recovery. The organization forecast that global...