October2017

News Hour:  Catalan president Carles Puigdemont is set to call a snap regional election for Dec. 20, media said on Thursday, a move that could help break a one-month deadlock between the Madrid government and separatists...

News Hour: Kenyan opposition supporters clashed with police and threw up burning barricades on Thursday, seeking to derail an election rerun likely to return Uhuru Kenyatta as president of East Africa’s chief economic and political powerhouse....

News Hour: Young refugees, including minors, have been lured into prostitution by the security guards hired to protect them. Insiders have told a German public broadcaster that the guards pay high prices for young refugees. Security...

News Hour: The Asian Development Bank, or ADB, has approved $1.2 billion more to finance the second phase of the Dhaka-northwest international trade corridor in Bangladesh. The ADB’s funds will be used to improve the 190km...

News Hour: A wheel from the landing gear of a Biman Bangladesh aircraft has come off as soon as it left the runway of an airport. The incident was reported on Wednesday from Nilphamari’s Syedpur airport,...

News Hour: In the wake of a spike in the number of marriages between Bangladeshi men and Rohingya women, who have fled persecution in Myanmar, the government has issued a warning against registering such marriages. In...

News Hour: Bangladesh Army personnel have detained six members of the police’s Detective Branch for allegedly kidnapping a businessman and extorting Tk 1.7 million in ransom from his family before releasing him at Teknaf in Cox’s...

News Hour: A Swiss couple was chased by a group of men and attacked with sticks and stones before being left wounded on a road in Fatehpur Sikri near Agra on Sunday, a day after they...

News Hour: New security measures including stricter passenger screening take effect on Thursday on all US-bound flights to comply with government requirements aimed at responding to threats of hidden explosives, airlines said. Airlines contacted by Reuters...

News Hour: Middle Eastern taxi app firm Careem hopes investment from China’s Didi Chuxing will help it’s rival Uber across the region. The two sides signed a deal to work together earlier this year, as competition...