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News Hour: At least two persons have been killed and several others injured in a major fire that broke out at a government hospital in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal Saturday, a senior police...

News Hour: Three elephants have been killed after being hit by a passenger train in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal, a senior railway official said on Saturday, reports BSS. The incident took place when...

News Hour: The new unity government of Youssef Chahed won resounding support from parliament on Friday, approving a new cabinet line-up which must tackle the country’s pressing socio-economic and security challenges, reports BSS. After a long...

News Hour: The UN Security Council on Friday strongly condemned North Korea for test-firing ballistic missiles and agreed to take “significant measures” in response the latest series of launches, reports BSS. The 15-member council issued the...

News Hour: Tropical Storm Lester off the northwest Mexican coast strengthened to hurricane status on Friday, the US National Hurricane Center said, reports BSS. The center of Lester is located some 550 miles (885 kilometers) southwest...

News Hour: Bangladeshi police say they have stormed a hideout near Dhaka and killed the suspected planner of a cafe attack last month that left 22 people dead, reports BBC. “Tamim Chowdhury is dead,” said senior...

News Hour: Police have ordered some low-end hotels in the Chinese metropolis of Guangzhou not to allow guests from five Muslim-majority countries to stay, though China’s foreign ministry said it had never heard of the policy....

News Hour: Philippine commandos killed 11 Islamist militants on a remote southern island on Friday, an army spokesman said, stepping up the offensive after President Rodrigo Duterte reiterated his aim to “destroy” one of Asia’s most...

News Hour: Molenbeek, the Brussels borough that gained unwanted notoriety last year when Islamic State militants from the area attacked Paris, has become an unlikely tourist draw – and not just for those with ghoulish tastes....

News Hour: Bolivia’s Deputy Interior Minister Rodolfo Illanes has been killed by miners who kidnapped him to demand labor law changes, the government said Thursday. “All signs indicate that our deputy minister, Rodolfo Illanes, has been...