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News Hour: The sculpture “The Sphere Plaza Fountain,” which stood in front of New York’s World Trade Center before the September 11, 2001 attacks, is set to return to the site, reports BSS. Unveiled in 1971,...

News Hour: British Prime Minister Theresa May is heading to Berlin on Wednesday and Paris on Thursday to start thrashing out the roadmap for Britain’s departure from the EU, reports BSS. In her first foreign visits,...

News Hour: Seventeen soldiers were killed and 35 wounded in central Mali on Tuesday in an assault on their base that authorities called a “coordinated terrorist attack”, reports BSS. “The toll has increased: we have lost...

News Hour: Republicans formally chose Donald Trump as the party’s presidential nominee on Tuesday, a landmark moment in American politics and a stunning victory for a man whose White House ambitions were once openly mocked, reports...

News Hour: The Higher Education Board ordered all deans to resign as part of a crackdown following last weekend’s failed coup. Staff from the education ministry and the office of the prime minister were also told...

News Hour: Current and forthcoming studies of vaccines to prevent HIV infection have created a new optimism that the long and challenging road to the development of such a vaccine has begun to take some promising...

News Hour: Thirteen people were killed on Monday in a prison riot in Guatemala, among them an ex-soldier imprisoned for killing a Roman Catholic bishop almost two decades ago, authorities said, reports BSS. “Among the dead...

News Hour: France will decide whether to extend the state of emergency for a fourth time, possibly until 2017, after a massacre in Nice that left 84 people dead, reports BSS. President Francois Hollande was this...

News Hour: US presidential hopeful Donald Trump took the stage on Monday at the Republican National Convention to introduce his wife and keynote speaker Melania Trump, vowing “we’re going to win” against Democrat Hillary Clinton, reports...

News Hour: The Rt Hon Priti Patel was appointed Secretary of State for International Development on Thursday 14 July following Theresa May’s appointment as Prime Minister. International Development Secretary Priti Patel said: “I am delighted to have...