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News Hour: The decision by the 129th IOC Session in Rio de Janeiro was the most comprehensive evolution of the Olympic programme in modern history. Plans call for staging the skateboarding and sports climbing events in...

News Hour: In the Andean city of El Alto indigenous Bolivians gathered at dawn to honor “Pachamama,” the goddess of the earth and fertility, on what is known locally as Mother Earth Day. During the annual...

News Hour: With just 60 days to go before the start of the new school year, hundreds of thousands of Syrian parents are faced with the stark choice of whether to feed their children or send...

News Hour: In a searing and virtually unprecedented presidential rebuke, Barack Obama declared embattled Republican White House nominee Donald Trump “unfit” to be president on Tuesday and called on party leaders to disown him, reports BSS....

News Hour: Syrian regime forces backed by heavy Russian air raids recaptured a series of hilltops and villages on the southwest edges of Aleppo city from rebel groups, a monitor said on Wednesday, reports BSS. The...

News Hour: Volcanic eruptions in Indonesia in recent days have forced the closure of two airports and disrupted some flights to the holiday island of Bali, officials said on Wednesday, reports BSS. Mount Gamala on the...

News Hour: Nepal’s parliament elected former guerrilla and Maoist leader Pushpa Kamal Dahal as prime minister on Wednesday after his predecessor resigned following deadly unrest over a divisive new constitution, reports BSS. Dahal, better known by...

News Hour: South Sudanese President Salva Kiir has fired five ministers, according to an official decree, in a move that removed figures known for close ties to ex-rebel leader Riek Machar, reports BSS. Under a peace...

News Hour: An Emirates plane with 275 people on board was involved in an accident on landing on Wednesday at Dubai airport but all the passengers were evacuated safely, the government said. Footage on social media...

News Hour: The leader of Nepal’s Maoist party appeared certain to be the next prime minister after the deadline for nominations expired on Tuesday with only his name on the ballot, reports bSS. Lawmakers in the...