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News Hour: A Pakistani man suspected of starting a devastating factory fire in Karachi four years ago that killed 255 people has been arrested in Bangkok, Thai police said on Saturday. Abdul Rehman, 46, was detained...

News Hour: Michigan’s attorney general said on Friday he had filed a lawsuit to halt the Green Party’s requested recount of presidential votes in the state, adding to Republican efforts in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin to maintain...

News Hour: Thomas Benson once ran a small liberal arts college in Vermont. Stephen Gessner served as president of the school board for New York’s Shelter Island. More recently, they’ve been opening doors for Chinese education...

News Hour: US President-elect Donald Trump has named Gen James Mattis, a former marine who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, as his defense secretary. “He’s our best,” Mr Trump said, as he announced his pick in...

News Hour: Europol has warned that militants from so-called Islamic State (IS) will aim to step up attacks on European targets, as they face defeat in the Middle East. The European police force says more foreign...

News Hour: A minibus crash in China killed at least 18 people on Friday when the vehicle plunged into a lake, state media reported. The minibus was traveling from Ezhou to Wuhan in the central province...

News Hour: Rival militias clashed in Tripoli on Thursday leaving at least seven people dead, Libyan media said, as journalists reported hearing gunshots and explosions in the south of the capital. Tanks, trucks and heavy weapons...

News Hour: Myanmar’s de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi vowed on Wednesday to work for “peace and national reconciliation” amid mounting international condemnation of a bloody army crackdown on her country’s Muslim Rohingya minority. The...

News Hour: Fans mourned on Wednesday for a Brazilian football team decimated in a plane crash that killed 71 people in Colombia, as a recording emerged of the panicked pilot reporting he was out of fuel....

News Hour: Since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, politicians have periodically announced with fanfare that they would introduce a bill to strip the citizenship of Americans accused of terrorism. The idea tends to attract...