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News Hour: Turkey’s army and international coalition forces on Wednesday began an operation to drive Islamic State jihadists out of a key Syrian border town, a statement from the Turkish prime minister’s office said, reports BSS....

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: Standing in line for a special ceremony, uniformed soldiers of His Majesty the King of Norway’s Guard are carefully inspected — by a penguin. Sir Nils Olav, a resident king penguin at Edinburgh Zoo,...

News Hour: The Australian designer of the burkini said she has enjoyed increased sales of the body-covering swimwear for Muslim women since three French cities banned it. The mayors of Cannes, Villeneuve-Loubet and the Corsican seaside...

News Hour: A tremor jolted Dhaka and other parts of the country this afternoon. The earthquake was felt at 4:37pm. The epicenter of the 6.8 magnitude earthquake was at 25km West of Chauk, Myanmar and 500km...

News Hour: Donald A. Henderson, who headed the World Health Organization vaccination effort that wiped out smallpox in 1977 and later became a U.S. bioterrorism expert, has died from complications following a hip fracture, officials said...

News Hour: The largest program of the Clinton Foundation, the family philanthropy of U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, is still weighing whether to continue accepting foreign donations should Clinton be elected, a spokeswoman said on...

News Hour: Authorities in several French towns have implemented bans on the garment, which covers the body and head, citing concerns about religious clothing in the wake of recent terrorist killings in the country. The images...

News Hour: The Philippines has recorded about 1,900 drug-related killings since President Rodrigo Duterte took office seven weeks ago and launched a war on narcotics, far higher than previously believed, according to police figures, reports Aljazeera....