July2017

News Hour: The Cumhuriyet journalists may be looking at very long sentences. With their trial begining on Monday, the defendents could get between seven and a half and 43 years in prison. What exactly they are charged with,...

News Hour: Stubbs, the honorary feline mayor of the Alaska town of Talkeetna, died in his sleep late last week at the age of 20 years and 3 months, the family with whom he lived announced...

News Hour: Emmanuel Macron’s approval rating slipped 10 points in a month to hit 54 percent, according to an Ifop poll published Sunday in the Journal du Dimanche newspaper, which reported that not since Jacques Chirac in 1995 had...

News Hour: Large amounts of solidified, lava-like, rocks in layers as much as 3 feet (1 meter) thick were seen under Fukushima’s Unit 3 reactor, according to Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), which operates the plant. “It’s...

News Hour: The death toll from Monday morning’s car bombing in the west of Kabul could rise further, according to the Interior Ministry. At least 24 people were dead and more than 40 were injured in the blast...

News Hour: Jordanian police deployed dozens of anti-terrorism police forces following the two deaths on Sunday. “We have started a large scale investigation into the incident and ordered the prosecutor general to look at all the...

News Hour: The first batch of pilgrims departed Dhaka this morning for Saudi Arabia to perform hajj – the largest religious congregation of the Muslims. A flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines carrying 418 hajj pilgrims left Hazrat Shahjalal...

News Hour: Thor has lost his invincible hammer and Black Panther shoulders the responsibility of being a new king, in exclusive scenes shown from Disney’s Marvel studios’ upcoming superhero movies at San Diego’s Comic-Con. One of...

News Hour: “Dunkirk” and “Girls Trip” are opening above expectations at the domestic box office, while “Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets” looks like a huge flop. But let’s start with the good. Christopher...

News Hour: The United States breezed into the final of the 2017 Gold Cup after second half goals from Jozy Altidore and Clint Dempsey secured the hosts’ 2-0 win over Costa Rica on Saturday. Altidore broke...