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News Hour: At least five people were killed and 27 others wounded in a triple bombing in eastern Afghanistan’s Nangarhar province on Friday, provincial officials said. There was no claim of responsibility for the three bombings...

News Hour: Iraqi forces should create safe exits for Mosul residents because they cannot protect civilians and wage fierce battles with jihadists at the same time, an aid group said on Friday. The International Rescue Committee...

News Hour: With a global presence that already spans more than 450 cities worldwide, it isn’t often that Uber expands into new countries, but just two days ago the U.S. ride-sharing giant drove into Bangladesh for the...

News Hour: Donald Trump began to broaden the base of his future cabinet on Wednesday, nominating two conservative women including a critic, after his earlier picks rewarded campaign loyalists. Trump’s nomination of South Carolina’s 44-year-old governor,...

News Hour: U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has picked South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley, who has little foreign policy experience and who sharply criticized him during his election campaign, for the high-profile post of U.S. ambassador to...

News Hour: Hurricane Otto was forecast to strengthen in the Caribbean as it churned toward Central America on Tuesday, causing three deaths in Panama and prompting coastal evacuations in Costa Rica and Nicaragua. Otto became the...

News Hour: US President-elect Donald Trump will not pursue a further investigation into Hillary Clinton’s emails, to help her “heal”, his spokeswoman has said. A Trump spokeswoman said he would back down from his pledge to...

News Hour: Several children were killed on Monday in the US state of Tennessee when a school bus carrying up to 35 students plowed into a tree, officials said. Images broadcast on local media showed the...

News Hour: Renewed clashes between Yemeni government forces and rebels killed more than 40 people on Tuesday, military officials said, a day after a fragile 48-hour ceasefire expired without halting the violence. Forces loyal to President...

News Hour: Yesterday India expressed its intention to sign an open skies agreement with Bangladesh promising to liberalise rules and regulations of the international aviation industry and create a free-market environment for the airline industries of...