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News Hour: The Italian coastguard said the bodies of five migrants were recovered from the Mediterranean on Sunday, while more than 6,500 people had been rescued off Libya since Thursday, reports BSS. In one operation by...

News Hour: A massive Taliban truck bomb struck a hotel for foreigners on the outskirts of Kabul on early Monday, officials said, just days after the deadliest attack in the Afghan capital for 15 years, reports...

News Hour: Tokyo elected the country’s former defence minister, Yuriko Koike, as its first female governor on Sunday, media exit polls show, reports Aljazeera. “I will lead Tokyo politics in an unprecedented manner, a Tokyo you have...

News Hour: Tens of thousands of Congolese demonstrators chanting anti-government slogans and waving opposition flags rallied in the capital on Sunday to demand President Joseph Kabila step down when his mandate ends in November, reports Reuters....

News Hour: U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said Russian intelligence services hacked into Democratic National Committee computers and she accused Republican contender Donald Trump of showing support for Russian President Vladimir Putin, reports Reuters. “We...

News Hour: Donald Trump rejected criticism from the father of a soldier killed in Iraq who said the Republican presidential nominee had “sacrificed nothing and no one” and questioned whether the mother was allowed to speak...

News Hour: UN-brokered Yemen peace talks have been extended for one week, host Kuwait said on Saturday, after seven Saudi troops were killed in border clashes with Iran-backed Yemeni rebels, reports BSS. The Saudis died after...

News Hour: Lawmakers in Mali agreed on Saturday to extend a state of emergency across the country by another eight months, officials told reporters, as fresh violence flared in the restive northeast, reports BSS. MPs unanimously...

News Hour: In a major goof-up, Assam government today included a two-year old world-famous photograph of Bangladesh’s Noakhali flood in its interim report on Assam flood to Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh. The report, handed over...

News Hour: Hackers attacked the website of a national airline and flight information screens at Vietnam’s two biggest airports on Friday, posting notices that state media said criticized the Philippines and Vietnam and their claims in...