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News Hour: Mother Teresa, the nun whose work with the dying and destitute of Kolkata made her a global icon of Christian charity, was made a saint on Sunday, reports BSS. Her elevation to Roman Catholicism’s...

News Hour: It has already been one year since heart-wrenching photos surfaced of a 3-year-old boy who, forced to flee his home in Syria and subjected to a grueling journey from the Middle East to Europe,...

News Hour: Convict war criminal of Bangladesh Mir Quasem Ali was executed at 10:35 pm on Saturday night at Kashimpur Central Jail in Gazipur for his crime against humanity during the Liberation war of 1971. After over...

News Hour: Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte cancelled on Saturday his first foreign trip to Brunei following a deadly blast in his hometown, reports BSS. An improvised explosive device tore through a night market in the southern...

News Hour: Flooding caused by torrential rains hit North Korea this week, leaving 15 people missing and thousands of others homeless, reports BSS. The Tumen River, which serves as part of the border between China, Russia...

News Hour: Philippine authorities on Saturday blamed a notorious group of Islamic militants for the bombing of a night market in President Rodrigo Duterte’s home town that killed at least 14 people, reports BSS. An improvised...

News Hour: Malaysia reported its first locally transmitted case of the mosquito-borne Zika virus on Saturday, news likely to add to fears of a full-blown outbreak in the tropical nation, reports BSS. The patient was a...

News Hour: Turkish security forces suffered a bloody 24 hours after 13 soldiers and a village guardsman were killed in three separate incidents in the country’s east and southeast, blamed on Kurdish militants, reports BSS. Three...

News Hour: Police rescued 22 Nepali women from a hotel in New Delhi who were allegedly being trafficked from the impoverished Himalayan nation to the Middle East, and are searching for two suspects, officers said on...

News Hour: “At that moment, I understood what it means to feel like I’d rather die,” wrote a young Japanese woman, recalling the trauma she suffered as a pre-teen, over having sex with a man to...