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News Hour: Two more climbers have died on Mount Everest, taking to six the death toll on the world’s highest mountain in the past month, fuelling safety concerns among mountaineers, officials said on Monday. A 54-year-old...

News Hour: Saudi Arabia’s King Salman on Sunday accused regional rival Shiite Iran of exporting extremist Islamic movements to the world and vowed to eliminate the ISIS. “The Iranian regime has been the spearhead of global...

News Hour: According to the International Organization for Migration, the top “sending” country is a democracy that claims to have made strides in human development: Bangladesh. Bangladeshi migrants are paying between $8,000 and $9,000 just to...

News Hour: Islamic State militants killed nearly 20 people including two children in a village in Syria’s eastern Deir al-Zor province, and captured fighters participating in a U.S.-backed operation against the jihadists, a monitoring group said...

News Hour: A 17-year-old boy and two men died in Venezuela after being shot during anti-government protests, prosecutors said Tuesday, bringing to 42 the number of people killed in six weeks of unrest, reports BSS. The...

News Hour: Based on the online classifieds market condition and not being able to develop the company into a sustainable and profitable business, the owners (Telenor, Schibsted and Naspers) have decided to close down the site...

News Hour: Donald Trump reportedly revealed highly classified information about Isis to the Russian foreign minister and ambassador in a White House meeting last week. The information revealed by the President while in the Oval Office,...

News Hour: Pro-Europe centrist Emmanuel Macron became president of France on Sunday in a solemn Elysee Palace ceremony and vowed to work to heal divisions in society – a nod to the bitter campaign he fought...

News Hour: India is likely to be represented by local embassy staff or academics this weekend at a major gathering of leaders and ministers on China’s “Silk Road” initiative, reflecting deep unease in New Delhi about...

News Hour: Two accused in the much-talked-about Banani rape case, Shafat Ahmed and his friend Sadman Sakif, were detained in Sylhet on Thursday evening. Police’s assistant inspector general (confidential) Md. Moniruzzaman told the Prothom Alo that...