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News Hour: Twenty-eight Europe-bound migrants were found dead on a day of frantic rescues off Libya on Tuesday, including at least 22 in an overloaded wooden boat, an AFP photographer and the Italian coastguard said. The...

News Hour: The two candidates for US vice president launched bitter attacks on the reputations and policies of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump on Tuesday during a fiery debate five weeks from Election Day. Democrat Tim...

News Hour: Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos opened a new national dialogue on Monday to seek peace with FARC rebels as both sides scrambled to revive a peace deal to end the half-century conflict, reports BSS....

News Hour: A jihadist group that was formerly Al-Qaeda’s affiliate in Syria on Monday confirmed that an air strike killed a senior leader after the Pentagon said it had targeted him. Ahmed Salama Mabrouk, an Egyptian...

News Hour: Afghan forces were conducting clearing operations in Kunduz on early Tuesday, warning that Taliban militants were hiding in civilian homes after an hours-long assault on the city repelled with the help of NATO air...

News Hour: Syrian rebels backed by Turkey and a U.S.-led coalition are closing in on the Islamic State-held village of Dabiq, the site of an apocalyptic prophesy central to the militant group’s ideology. Free Syrian Army...

News Hour: Protests broke out in some areas of Ethiopia’s Oromiya region on Monday, a day after dozens of people were killed in a stampede at a religious festival sparked by a bid by police to...

News Hour: Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday suspended an agreement with the United States for disposal of weapons-grade plutonium because of “unfriendly” acts by Washington, the Kremlin said. A Kremlin spokesman said Putin had signed...

News Hour: Japan’s scientist Yoshinori Ohsumi won the 2016 Nobel prize for medicine or physiology for his discovery of how cells break down and recycle their content, which could lead to a better understanding of diseases like...

News Hour: A fatal police shooting of a black man in Los Angeles is under investigation, police said on Sunday, a day after the deadly use of force drew protesters to the scene. The shooting occurred...