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Gunmen killed 14 people in Mexico
Jul 10, 2016News Hour: Gunmen killed 11 relatives, including five girls, in a northern Mexican city plagued by drug cartels on Saturday while three people from another family were murdered in a second attack, reports BSS. The two... -
Voters of Japan headed to the polls to cast ballot in parliamentary election
Jul 10, 2016News Hour: Japanese voters headed to the polls on Sunday to cast their ballot in a parliamentary election with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s ruling party expected to cruise to victory despite lukewarm support, reports BSS. Abe,... -
The Minnesota police officer reacted to the man’s gun, not his race
Jul 10, 2016News Hour: The Minnesota police officer whose fatal shooting of a black driver this week helped prompt nationwide protests against racial prejudice reacted to the man’s gun, not his race, his lawyer said on Saturday, reports... -
Gunfire erupted near the presidential palace in South Sudan
Jul 10, 2016News Hour: Gunfire erupted near the presidential palace in South Sudan’s capital Juba on Friday, further straining a shaky ceasefire the day after five soldiers were killed, reports BSS President Salva Kiir and his deputy, former... -
North Korea appeared to have test-fired submarine-launched ballistic missile
Jul 10, 2016News Hour: North Korea on Saturday appeared to have test-fired a submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM), Seoul’s defence ministry said, a day after the US and South Korea decided to deploy an advanced missile defence system in... -
More than 60 civilians killed by shelling and air strikes in Syria
Jul 10, 2016News Hour: More than 60 civilians were killed by shelling and air strikes in the northwest of Syria on Friday, a monitoring group said, hours before the end of a shaky ceasefire for the Eid al-Fitr... -
Hillary Clinton sought to move past the email controversy
Jul 10, 2016News Hour: Hillary Clinton sought to move past the email controversy dogging her presidential campaign on Friday, placing some of the blame on other officials for sending her classified information, reports BSS. Speaking during an interview... -
Barack Obama vowed to stand with Bangladesh to fight terrorism
Jul 8, 2016News Hour: Renewing his strong condemnation to the heinous terrorist attack on a Gulshan cafe in Dhaka, US President Barack Obama has vowed to continue to stand with Japan, Bangladesh and the rest of the world... -
19 people arrested in Saudi Arabia following suicide attacks
Jul 8, 2016News Hour: Nineteen people, including 12 Pakistani nationals, have been arrested in Saudi Arabia following suicide attacks on Monday, including one near Islam’s second-holiest site in the city of Medina, the kingdom’s Interior Ministry said on... -
IS attacked a Shiite shrine in north of Baghdad killing 30 people
Jul 8, 2016News Hour: Islamic State group extremists attacked a Shiite shrine in north of Baghdad, killing 30 people, just days after one of the deadliest ever bombings in the country, a security spokesman said on Friday, reports...
