Politics

News Hour: Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Friday the European Union should start setting up a joint European army. Orban, a staunch critic of the EU’s migration policies, said security should be a priority...

News Hour: A U.S. Navy ship fired warning shots toward an Iranian fast-attack craft that approached two U.S. ships, a Pentagon spokesman said on Thursday, in the most serious of a number of incidents in the...

News Hour: Pakistan’s continued support for resurgent militant groups hostile to the United States, coupled with warming U.S. military and business relations with India, is sharply diminishing Islamabad’s strategic importance as an ally to Washington, U.S....

News Hour: President Tayyip Erdogan said Turkey’s resolve to battle militants would only increase after Friday’s attack on a police headquarters in the southeast of the country that he blamed on the outlawed militant group Kurdistan...

News Hour: French Prime Minister Manuel Valls defended a ban on burkinis in more than a dozen coastal towns on Thursday, saying France was locked in a “battle of cultures” and that the full-body swimsuit symbolized...

News Hour: Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico on Friday renewed his call for the European Union to end sanctions against Russia after meeting President Vladimir Putin in Moscow, saying they had failed to influence the settlement...

News Hour: The White House on Thursday said it supported the United Nations’ efforts to bring humanitarian relief to the divided Syrian city of Aleppo and would welcome Russia’s constructive engagement. “What the United States supports...

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: The head of the Organization of American States denounced corruption and violence in Venezuela on Monday, saying a 14-year prison term for an opposition leader there marked the end of democracy in the country,...

News Hour: Former French leader Nicolas Sarkozy announced on Monday he will seek the nomination of his centre-right party to stand in next year’s presidential election, reports BSS. “I have decided to be a candidate in...