Politics

News Hour: Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi faces what could be the toughest test of her leadership yet when she opens a major ethnic peace conference on Wednesday aimed at ending wars that have blighted the...

News Hour: Italy observed a national day of mourning on Saturday with flags across the country at half-staff amid a state funeral for dozens of victims of the earthquake which killed 290 people and injured much more,...

News Hour: Turkey has for the first time allowed women police to wear headscarves while on duty as part of their uniform. Women serving in the police force “will be able to cover their heads” under...

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: 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: 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: Zimbabwean police on Friday fired tear gas at opposition leaders and hundreds of demonstrators as a protest against President Robert Mugabe descended into one of the worst outbreaks of violence in two decades. Opposition...

News Hour: Norway’s appeal case against a legal ruling that found the state had violated the human rights of mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik will most likely be held in January, a court said on Friday....

News Hour: U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russia’s Sergei Lavrov sought on Friday to finalize an agreement on fighting Islamist militants in Syria as the first evacuees left a besieged Damascus surbub under a...

News Hour: A new poll said they plan to vote for Hillary Clinton — the first time the Democratic presidential candidate has breached that all-important 50 percent threshold. The poll released Thursday by Quinnipiac University found...