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News Hour: Internet access can offer life-changing opportunities and experiences to all of us, but there are still 4 billion people without it. That’s 60% of the global population. As many as 1.6 billion of those...

News Hour: A tech billionaire on Thursday told the Republican National Convention that he was proud to be gay, admonished the party for not embracing LGBT rights and called on delegates to vote Donald Trump, reports...

News Hour: Donald Trump will promise fearful Americans that “safety will be restored” if he is elected president, as he accepts the Republican Party’s White House nomination on Thursday, reports BSS. “I have a message for...

News Hour: Canada said on Thursday that, its military is set to deploy up to 60 medical staff to Iraq to run a field hospital for the international coalition fighting the Islamic State group, reports BSS....

News Hour: The sculpture “The Sphere Plaza Fountain,” which stood in front of New York’s World Trade Center before the September 11, 2001 attacks, is set to return to the site, reports BSS. Unveiled in 1971,...

News Hour: A US think-tank said on Friday it may have identified a secret North Korean gas centrifuge plant used in the early stages of the nuclear-armed country’s illicit uranium enrichment efforts, reports BSS. The Institute...

News Hour: British Prime Minister Theresa May is heading to Berlin on Wednesday and Paris on Thursday to start thrashing out the roadmap for Britain’s departure from the EU, reports BSS. In her first foreign visits,...

News Hour: Several beaches in the Los Angeles area were shut down on Tuesday after nearly 2.5 million gallons (9.5 million liters) of sewage spilled out from a ruptured line, officials said, reports BSS. The spill...

News Hour: France’s National Assembly voted in the early hours of Wednesday to extend the country’s state of emergency for six months following last week’s massacre in Nice, reports BSS. The state of emergency has been...

News Hour: Seventeen soldiers were killed and 35 wounded in central Mali on Tuesday in an assault on their base that authorities called a “coordinated terrorist attack”, reports BSS. “The toll has increased: we have lost...