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News Hour: A strong 6.4 magnitude earthquake struck northern Ecuador on late Sunday in the same area devastated by a powerful quake in mid-April, the US Geological Service said, reports BSS. Its epicenter was 41 kilometers...

News Hour: Gunmen killed 11 relatives, including five girls, in a northern Mexican city plagued by drug cartels on Saturday while three people from another family were murdered in a second attack, reports BSS. The two...

News Hour: Japanese voters headed to the polls on Sunday to cast their ballot in a parliamentary election with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s ruling party expected to cruise to victory despite lukewarm support, reports BSS. Abe,...

News Hour: The Minnesota police officer whose fatal shooting of a black driver this week helped prompt nationwide protests against racial prejudice reacted to the man’s gun, not his race, his lawyer said on Saturday, reports...

News Hour: More than 60 civilians were killed by shelling and air strikes in the northwest of Syria on Friday, a monitoring group said, hours before the end of a shaky ceasefire for the Eid al-Fitr...

News Hour: Hillary Clinton sought to move past the email controversy dogging her presidential campaign on Friday, placing some of the blame on other officials for sending her classified information, reports BSS. Speaking during an interview...

News Hour: Renewing his strong condemnation to the heinous terrorist attack on a Gulshan cafe in Dhaka, US President Barack Obama has vowed to continue to stand with Japan, Bangladesh and the rest of the world...

News Hour: FBI chief James Comey on Thursday vigorously defended his recommendation not to file charges against Democratic White House hopeful Hillary Clinton over her private email use at the State Department, saying she did not...

News Hour: Snipers operating from rooftops in Dallas killed five police officers and wounded six more in a coordinated attack during one of several protests across the country against the killing of two black men by...

News Hour: Two policemen and one suspected extremist were killed while 12 people injured today as unidentified militants launched a bomb attack near the Sholakia Eid Jamaat ground in the district, minutes before the start of...