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News Hour: Bangladeshi police say they have stormed a hideout near Dhaka and killed the suspected planner of a cafe attack last month that left 22 people dead, reports BBC. “Tamim Chowdhury is dead,” said senior...

News Hour: Philippine commandos killed 11 Islamist militants on a remote southern island on Friday, an army spokesman said, stepping up the offensive after President Rodrigo Duterte reiterated his aim to “destroy” one of Asia’s most...

News Hour: Bolivia’s Deputy Interior Minister Rodolfo Illanes has been killed by miners who kidnapped him to demand labor law changes, the government said Thursday. “All signs indicate that our deputy minister, Rodolfo Illanes, has been...

Twenty people were killed and 17 others injured in a bus accident in central Nepal, police said on Friday. The accident happened in Narayangarh-Mugling road stretch in Chitwan District, some 100 km west of the capital...

News Hour: A suspected gas explosion at a sports centre in southern Belgium killed one person and seriously injured two others, a security official told the Belga news agency on Friday. The blast took place a...

News Hour: Hopes of finding more survivors faded on Friday three days after a powerful earthquake hit central Italy, with the death toll rising to 267 and the rescue operation in some of the stricken areas...

News Hour: A suicide truck bombing at a police headquarters in Turkey’s largely Kurdish southeast killed at least 11 and wounded dozens on Friday, two days after Turkey launched an incursion against Islamic State and Kurdish...

News Hour: England’s five-week tour of Bangladesh will proceed as planned starting in late September, the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) announced on Thursday after conducting a risk assessment, reports Reuters. Concerns were raised after...

News Hour: French Prime Minister Manuel Valls defended a ban on burkinis in more than a dozen coastal towns on Thursday, saying France was locked in a “battle of cultures” and that the full-body swimsuit symbolized...

News Hour: Explosions and gunfire have rocked the American University of Afghanistan in Kabul, as armed men attacked the campus, according to an official and a student, reports Reuters. “Several gunmen attacked the American University in...