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News Hour: Turkey’s military says  it has taken over the country, with soldiers at strategic points in Istanbul and jets flying low in the capital, Ankara. On Friday it had seized power but President Tayyip Erdogan vowed...

News Hour: France held its annual Bastille Day celebrations on Thursday (July 14) with a traditional parade down the Champs Elysees in Paris, kicked off by French president Francois Hollande and with dignitaries in attendance. Guests of honor...

News Hour: Eight Taliban insurgents have been killed and a few others injured as clashes erupted in Darayem district of the northern Afghan province of Badakhshan on Thursday, an army spokesman Nasratullah Jamshidi said, reports BSS....

News Hour: Funerals were held on Wednesday for two of the five officers killed in last week’s sniper shooting in Dallas, one day after President Barack Obama addressed a public memorial service honoring the slain police,...

News Hour: The commanders of the US and Chinese navies will meet amid mounting tensions over China’s claims to much of the South China Sea, the US Navy said on Thursday, reports BSS. Admiral John Richardson,...

News Hour: At least 80 people were killed and another 100 injured in the southern French city of Nice after an attacker drove a lorry into a crowd celebrating the Bastille Day national holiday, authorities said,...

News Hour: New Prime Minister Theresa May ruthlessly overhauled the British cabinet on Thursday, sacking a raft of ministers, promoting loyalists and putting supporters of Britain’s exit from the European Union firmly in charge of negotiating...

News Hour: The United States is using quiet diplomacy to persuade the Philippines, Indonesia, Vietnam and other Asian nations not to move aggressively to capitalize on an international court ruling that denied China’s claims to the...

News Hour: The FBI has arrested four people within the last month in order to disrupt Islamic State-inspired plots, FBI Director James Comey told a panel of U.S. lawmakers on Thursday, reports Reuters. At the same...

News Hour: Prosecution and defense lawyers made closing arguments on Wednesday in the manslaughter trial of the highest-ranking Baltimore police officer charged in the death of black detainee Freddie Gray. A prosecutor said decisions made by...