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News Hour: So-called Islamic State has said it was behind a suicide bomb attack on a security checkpoint in Iraq’s capital, Baghdad, that has killed more than 20 people and injured at least another 35, reports...

News Hour: Funerals have taken place in Kabul for victims of Saturday’s suicide bomb attack claimed by so-called Islamic State (IS), which killed 80 people. Bodies were still being collected from morgues as the first burials were...

News Hour: The 18-year-old German-Iranian gunman who killed nine people in Munich on Friday began planning the attack one year ago after visiting the site of a 2009 school shooting in southwest Germany that killed 15...

News Hour: Federal authorities on Friday formally repatriated a collection of more than thousand-year-old Mayan artifacts to the Guatemalan government at a ceremony in Los Angeles after recovering them from the estate of a deceased art...

News Hour: An EgyptAir flight that crashed into the Mediterranean in May likely broke up in midair after a fire erupted in or near the cockpit, the New York Times reported on Friday, reports BSS. However,...

News Hour: Heavy rain in China has killed at least 24 people and forced 16 million from their homes, state media reported on Saturday. The government of Henan province in central China told the Xinhua news...

News Hour: Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has selected Tim Kaine, a centrist senator from Virginia, as her running mate. Mrs Clinton broke the news in a tweet late on Friday. She plans a formal announcement on...

News Hour: Several people have been shot dead in a shooting at a shopping centre in the German city of Munich, police say. A big operation is under way. Police are telling people to stay at home...

News Hour: A hospital in Libya’s second city Benghazi said on Friday it had received the bodies of 14 people killed execution-style, in what the UN envoy said was a “war crime”, reports BSS. The unidentified...

News Hour: A tech billionaire on Thursday told the Republican National Convention that he was proud to be gay, admonished the party for not embracing LGBT rights and called on delegates to vote Donald Trump, reports...