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Suicide bomb in market in Somalia capital kills 39
Feb 19, 2017News Hour: A car bomb ripped through a market in Mogadishu on Sunday, killing 39 people and injuring around 50, a local official said, days after Somalia elected a new president. The car was driven by... -
Iraq launches offensive on last Islamic State stronghold in Mosul
Feb 19, 2017News Hour: U.S.-backed Iraqi forces on Sunday launched a ground offensive to dislodge Islamic State militants from their remaining stronghold in Mosul, in the western part of the city, and put an end to their ambitions... -
Four North Korean suspects fled Malaysia after airport murder
Feb 19, 2017News Hour: Four North Korean suspects in the murder of the estranged half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un fled Malaysia on the day he was attacked at Kuala Lumpur airport and apparently killed by... -
Donald Trump tells rally the ‘media will never get away with lies’
Feb 19, 2017News Hour: After four weeks at the White House, Donald Trump was back in familiar territory. “I wanna be among my friends and among the people,” the President announced at his first campaign-style rally since taking office.... -
Theresa May faces cross-party Article 50 offensive in the House of Lords
Feb 19, 2017News Hour: Theresa May’s Brexit Bill is facing a stumbling block as peers from all major parties prepare a joint offensive to force the Prime Minister into making concessions. Labour, Liberal Democrat and up to a dozen... -
Where exactly is the hashtag? More than 80 people died in a Pakistan terror attack
Feb 19, 2017News Hour: Last night, a suicide attack on a shrine in Pakistan killed at least 88 people and injured a further 250 at last count. This comes just two days after a suicide bomber attacked a... -
Islamic State command center destroyed in Mosul, U.S. coalition says; IS says civilians killed
Feb 18, 2017News Hour: The U.S.-led military coalition on Saturday said its forces destroyed a building in the main medical complex of western Mosul, suspected to house an Islamic State command center. The militant group disputed the assertion,... -
Merkel calls for joint efforts with Russia to battle Islamist terrorism
Feb 18, 2017News Hour: German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Saturday said Europe’s ties with Russia remained challenging, but it was important to work with Russia in the fight against Islamist terrorism. “The joint fight against Islamic terrorism is... -
U.N. says, Battle in west Mosul could see siege, mass displacement
Feb 18, 2017News Hour: Iraq’s U.S.-backed offensive against Islamic State in western Mosul could displace up to 400,000 civilians and involve a siege in the densely populated old city, the United Nations’ Humanitarian Coordinator for Iraq said on... -
Trade Center bomber Omar Abdel-Rahman dies in prison in U.S.
Feb 18, 2017News Hour: Omar Abdel-Rahman, convicted of the bombing of the World Trade Center in New York in 1993, has died in prison in the United States, his son Ammar told Reuters on Saturday. Ammar said his...
