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News Hour: Republican  Donald Trump and his White House rival Democrat Hillary Clinton went head-to-head on Monday night in a prime-time duel in front of tens of millions of American voters. Here is a selection of key quotes...

News Hour: Syrian government forces and their allies attacked the opposition-held sector of Aleppo on several fronts on Tuesday, the biggest ground assault yet in a massive new military campaign that has destroyed a U.S.-backed ceasefire....

News Hour: Three blasts killed at least 17 people and wounded more than 50 in predominantly Shi’ite Muslim districts of Baghdad on Tuesday, police and medical sources said. A suicide bomber detonated his explosive vest in...

News Hour: Zimbabwe police fired teargas at stone-throwing vendors resisting removal from city streets on Tuesday in the latest flare-up of protests against President Robert Mugabe’s 36-year rule. Army trucks and tankers joined Harare’s regular municipal...

News Hour: Two Afghan soldiers with suspected Taliban links killed at least 12 of their comrades as they slept in the volatile northern province of Kunduz, officials said on Tuesday in the latest so-called “insider attack”....

News Hour: Thousands of Saudis have signed a petition urging an end to the guardianship system giving men control over the work, study and even travel of female relatives, an activist said on Tuesday. The petition...

News Hour: Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump bickered and traded insults in a fiery US presidential debate on Monday, as they aggressively pitched their case to tens of millions of American voters. With the White House...

News Hour: Iran released on Monday a Canadian-Iranian academic who was detained in Tehran in June, the Foreign Ministry spokesman said, a week after the two countries began talks on a potential restoration of diplomatic ties...

News Hour: A massive fire that burned for more than 24 hours aboard a fuel tanker ship loaded with thousands of barrels of oil on board was put out on Sunday without having caused spills, a...

News Hour: Four men were injured, one critically, on late Sunday in the centre of Sweden’s southern city of Malmo, in what police said appeared to be a targeted attack by gunmen riding scooters. The shooting...