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News Hour: Barack Obama used his farewell UN address on Tuesday to castigate strongmen and populists, taking aim at Russia’s Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump’s rise at home. Obama told the UN General Assembly that democracy...

News Hour: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon opened the annual General Assembly debate on Tuesday with a call to end the fighting in Syria as he condemned the “sickening, savage” attack on an aid convoy. “I appeal...

News Hour: Two priests were found dead in eastern Mexico on Monday hours after they were kidnapped from their church, raising the number of Catholic clergymen killed in the country to 14 since 2012. The priests...

News Hour: More than 300,000 migrants have crossed the Mediterranean to Europe so far this year — far fewer than the 520,000 who arrived during the first nine months of 2015, the UN said on Tuesday....

News Hour: A German immigration official has been arrested and charged with espionage for an Indian secret service for allegedly spying on members of the Sikh religion, prosecutors said on Tuesday. The 58-year-old German national, identified...

News Hour: China plans to provide an additional $100 million in assistance to help deal with the global refugee and migrant crisis and is also considering setting aside a $1 billion fund for the purpose, Chinese...

News Hour: Unidentified gunmen killed two Saudi policemen in the mainly Shiite eastern city of Dammam late on Saturday, the interior ministry said, describing it as a “terrorist attack”. The two officers were patrolling in a...

News Hour: An explosion rocked the bustling Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan on Saturday night, injuring at least 29 people, and authorities said they were investigating the blast as a criminal act not immediately linked to any...

World leaders announced a commitment of more than $12.9 billion to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (Global Fund) at the launch of the Fifth Voluntary Replenishment in Montreal on September 17, 2016....Read More

News Hour: The world’s tallest moving observation tower, designed to withstand even the strongest gale force winds, was brought to a standstill when visitors rushed to get a drink at the bar, the UK reports said....