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News Hour: Myanmar’s de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi vowed on Wednesday to work for “peace and national reconciliation” amid mounting international condemnation of a bloody army crackdown on her country’s Muslim Rohingya minority. The...

News Hour: Fans mourned on Wednesday for a Brazilian football team decimated in a plane crash that killed 71 people in Colombia, as a recording emerged of the panicked pilot reporting he was out of fuel....

News Hour: Seven people have died in the US southeast as wildfires blazed across a mountainous tourist region, forcing thousands to evacuate and destroying or damaging hundreds of structures, US media reported on Wednesday. High winds...

News Hour: An earthquake has left at least two people dead and six others missing at a copper mine in Poland, the owners, KGHM, said on Wednesday. Five injured workers at the Rudna mine in the...

News Hour: Since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, politicians have periodically announced with fanfare that they would introduce a bill to strip the citizenship of Americans accused of terrorism. The idea tends to attract...

News Hour: She remembers Castro during that visit as a “very warm and charming man — I enjoyed him.” – Margaret Trudeau on Fidel Castro Pierre Trudeau, the former Prime Minister of Canada, made many visits to...

News Hour: The United States may send a delegation to the funeral of former Cuban leader Fidel Castro, the White House said Monday, but neither President Barack Obama nor Vice President Biden will be in attendance....

News Hour: U.S. President-elect Donald Trump named a vociferous critic of Obamacare and a policy consultant on Tuesday to help him overhaul the healthcare system that Republicans have targeted since Democrats enacted sweeping reforms in 2010....

News Hour: A full siege is developing in Mosul as poor families struggle to feed themselves after prices rose sharply following the U.S.-backed offensive on the Islamic State-held city in northern Iraq, humanitarian workers said on...

News Hour: Thailand’s cabinet on Tuesday submitted the name of Crown Prince Maha Vajiralongkorn to the nation’s rubber-stamp parliament, paving the way for his endorsement as king several weeks after his father’s death. “The prime minister’s...