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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: 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...

News Hour: A powerful earthquake devastated a string of mountain towns in central Italy on Wednesday, trapping residents under rubble, killing at least 73 people and leaving thousands homeless, reports Reuters. The quake struck in the...

News Hour: A large car bomb exploded on Wednesday outside a hotel in Thailand’s deep south, killing one and wounding more than 30 in a nation already on edge after a bombing spree that targeted tourist...

News Hour: North Korea on Wednesday test-fired a submarine-launched missile 500 kilometres (around 300 miles) towards Japan, marking what weapons analysts described as a clear step forward for its nuclear strike ambitions, reports BSS. The flight...

News Hour: Former UN chief Kofi Annan will advise Myanmar’s new government on resolving conflicts in Rakhine, a region divided on religious grounds and home to the stateless Muslim Rohingya, it was announced on Wednesday, reports...

News Hour: The head of the Organization of American States denounced corruption and violence in Venezuela on Monday, saying a 14-year prison term for an opposition leader there marked the end of democracy in the country,...

News Hour: A so-called “death squad” established within the Peruvian National Police has executed at least 20 criminals extrajudicially, amid a growing wave of insecurity in the South American country, the interior ministry found. Earlier this...

News Hour: An American soldier was killed on Tuesday during an anti-Taliban operation near the capital of the southern Afghan province of Helmand, US-led NATO forces said, reports BSS. The news comes after NATO on Monday...

News Hour: Turkish authorities were on Monday scrambling to ascertain the identity of a child suicide bomber acting on the orders of Islamic State (IS) jihadists who killed 51 people at a crowded Kurdish wedding, reports...