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News Hour: With hours to go before Americans vote, Democrat Hillary Clinton has about a 90 percent chance of defeating Republican Donald Trump in the race for the White House, according to the final Reuters/Ipsos States...

News Hour: The first woman to be US attorney general, Janet Reno, has died at home in Miami from complications linked to Parkinson’s disease, US media say. Ms Reno, 78, was at the centre of several...

News Hour: Pakistan on Monday delayed the planned deportation of Sharbat Gula, the green-eyed “Afghan Girl” whose 1985 photo in National Geographic became a symbol of her country’s wars, an Afghan official said. Now in her...

News Hour: British authorities on Sunday put an end to a prison riot involving up to 200 inmates, which broke out just days after a warders’ association warned of a “bloodbath” in the UK’s detention facilities....

News Hour: The Islamic State group has been eroded by international efforts to crush the jihadist group but its ability to mount devastating attacks on the West remains very real, defense, and security experts say. As...

News Hour: Democrat Hillary Clinton heads into the final day of a tight White House race against Republican Donald Trump on Monday with new momentum after the FBI’s announcement that no criminal charges were forthcoming in...

News Hour: The final phase of jury selection begins on Monday in the U.S. death penalty trial for a white man charged with federal hate crimes after the shooting deaths of nine black parishioners at a...

News Hour: A U.S.-backed alliance of Syrian armed groups has launched an operation to retake the northern city of Raqqa, the de facto capital of Islamic State in Syria, the group said on Sunday. The new...

News Hour: Tens of thousands of South Koreans protested in central Seoul on Saturday in one the largest demonstrations in the country’s capital for years, calling on embattled President Park Geun-hye to resign over a growing...

News Hour: Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are campaigning in Florida, a key battleground state that could tip Tuesday’s US presidential election. Florida is the largest swing state and is seen as a must-win for Mr...