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Turkey dismiss all university deans in post-coup purge
Jul 20, 2016News 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... -
New vigour in HIV vaccine research evident at AIDS 2016
Jul 20, 2016News 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... -
Turkish Prime Minister warned against exacting revenge on supporters of the failed coup
Jul 19, 2016News Hour: Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim on Tuesday warned against exacting revenge on supporters of the failed coup, as Ankara arrested top generals in a relentless crackdown that has sparked global alarm, reports BSS. Erdogan... -
Tourist bus crash in Taiwan kills 26 people
Jul 19, 2016News Hour: A Taiwan tour bus carrying visitors from mainland China crashed and caught fire on Tuesday near the capital Taipei, killing 26 on board, reports BSS. Footage on local media showed the bus had rammed... -
Suspected Maoist rebels ambushed and killed 10 police in India
Jul 19, 2016News Hour: Suspected Maoist rebels have ambushed a convoy of paramilitary commandos in east India and killed 10, police said on Tuesday, in the deadliest such attack since 2014, reports BSS. A landmine blast hit the... -
Thirteen people killed in riot in Guatemala prison
Jul 19, 2016News 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... -
France to decide whether to extend the state of emergency after Nice Attack
Jul 19, 2016News 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... -
Aung San Suu Kyi of Myanmar paid tribute to her hero father
Jul 19, 2016News Hour: Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi paid tribute to her independence hero father on Tuesday at a memorial attended for the first time by the army chief, a rare show of unity in the former... -
German police kill Afghan refugee after axe attack in train
Jul 19, 2016News Hour: German police shot dead a 17-year-old Afghan refugee on Monday after he attacked train passengers with an axe and a knife, seriously wounding four in what one official said was a “probable” Islamist attack,... -
Donald Trump took the stage at the Republican convention to introduce his wife
Jul 19, 2016News 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...
