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News Hour: The Malian jihadist group Ansar Dine has denied agreeing to a ceasefire with the government, a Mauritanian news agency and the extremist monitoring group said on Tuesday. It follows the announcement on Monday by...

News Hour: Iraqi forces have for the first time entered the eastern outskirts of Mosul, as they attempt to drive Islamic State (IS) militants from the northern city. A correspondent traveling with the Counter-Terrorism Service (CTS)...

News Hour: The world’s largest pan-Islamic body, the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, said its Saudi chief resigned on Monday, days after infuriating Egypt over a remark that mocked President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. OIC Secretary-General Iyad Madani...

News Hour: Rescuers are working around the clock to search for 20 miners who have remained trapped in a colliery in southwest China’s Chongqing Municipality for nearly 24 hours following a gas explosion. Altogether 33 miners...

News Hour: Amnesty International has called on Pakistan to release hundreds of opposition activists detained before a planned mass protest, as police used tear gas and rubber bullets overnight to prevent demonstrators from entering Islamabad. Prime...

News Hour: A Palestinian assailant shot and wounded three Israeli soldiers in the occupied West Bank on Monday and was killed by troops returning fire, the Israeli army said. A Palestinian security source said the dead...

News Hour: Indian police killed eight prisoners accused of belonging to a banned group as they attempted to escape from a high-security jail in the central city of Bhopal. Authorities in the state of Madhya Pradesh said...

News Hour: Michel Aoun, the former Lebanese army chief, has been elected president of Lebanon, ending more than two years of deadlock surrounding the vacancy. Aoun, 81, secured the presidency by winning the support of 83 MPs,...

News Hour: Nearly half of Russians fear that Moscow’s bombing campaign in Syria could spark World War III, a poll showed on Monday. Moscow, an ally of Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad, has been staging bombing raids...

News Hour: Turkey has dismissed another 10,000 civil servants and closed 15 more media outlets over suspected links with “terrorist organisations” and US-based cleric Fethullah Gulen, blamed by Ankara for orchestrating a failed coup. More than...