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News Hour: A prominent opposition leader in Venezuela has been jailed in a move that the government says was necessary to prevent acts of violence in the crisis-hit South American nation. Daniel Ceballos, former mayor of...

News Hour: Brazilian authorities on Saturday provisionally released an Irish businessman held over an alleged ticket scam at the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, one of his lawyers said, reports BSS. Kevin Mallon, director of British...

News Hour: Two people stranded for a week on a remote Pacific island have been rescued after a search aircraft spotted their SOS message in the sand, the US Coast Guard said on Sunday, reports BSS....

News Hour: Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump linked illegal immigration and employment on Saturday, pledging to start deporting offenders as soon as he is sworn in should he become the White House’s next occupant, reports BSS....

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: A French court on Friday suspended a ban on women wearing full-body “burkini” swimsuits on a Mediterranean town’s beach but the prime minister said the debate was not over, calling the outfit a symbol...

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: As evacuations from the besieged Daraya area continued for the second day, the first buses carrying Syrian civilians and rebel fighters from the Damascus suburb have reached opposition-held territory in the country’s northwest, a...

News Hour: At least 16 people died in a fire that broke out at a Moscow warehouse on Saturday morning, Russian authorities said, reports BSS. “When the fire was being put out, a room that had...