April2017

News Hour: Britain’s Atom has hired pop star will.i.am as a strategic adviser to its board as the app-based bank seeks to grow. Atom is the latest foray into digital technology for the rapper-turned-entrepreneur who has...

News Hour: The International Organization for Migration’s (IOM) first International Dialogue on Migration (IDM) at the United Nations (UN) Headquarters in New York, since joining the UN last year, took place on 18 and 19 April....

News Hour: The number of Chinese and Russian visitors to Dubai surged in the first three months of the year, boosted by the United Arab Emirates’ recent decision to grant visas on arrival to citizens of...

News Hour: As the end of April approaches, Dutch tulip farmers prepare for “topping”, when they run cutting machines through the fields across the north and west of the country, lopping off the colorful flower heads...

News Hour: Serena Williams returned to the top of the WTA world rankings on Monday and immediately shared the news with her unborn baby. The American, who is skipping the rest of the year after announcing...

News Hour: 5,000 American and Philippine troops will hold humanitarian exercises next month instead of annual war games, scaling back military drills in response to President Rodrigo Duterte’s disdain for their longstanding defense alliance. Troops taking...

News Hour: Suspected Taliban insurgents on Monday attacked a U.S.-operated base in Afghanistan’s eastern province of Khost, officials said, but gave few immediate details of an assault that coincided with a visit to Kabul by U.S....

News Hour: Supporters of Albania’s opposition Democratic Party blocked several main roads on Monday for one hour, escalating their two-month-old protest for a caretaker government to oversee the June 18 general elections. Party leader Lulzim Basha...

News Hour: Afghanistan’s defence minister and army chief of staff resigned on Monday after the deadliest ever Taliban attack on a military base, threatening to overshadow a visit by U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis as Washington...

News Hour: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday condemned the Maoists attack on CRPF personnel in Chhattisgarh, terming it as a “cowardly and deplorable” act, and asserted that the sacrifice of the martyrs will not go in...