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News Hour: US president Barack Obama on Wednesday met a survivor maimed by American bombs covertly dropped on Laos decades ago after pledging to help clean up a country he said was still living in the...

News Hour: The Islamic State group has claimed a rocket attack that killed three Turkish soldiers in Syria, its first deadly attack on Turkish forces since they crossed the border two weeks ago, reports BSS. “Soldiers...

News Hour: Four marine police were missing and reportedly killed after gunmen believed to be pirates stole their boat in southern Nigeria, police said on Wednesday, reports BSS. The officers were on patrol in the Abonnema...

News Hour: At least 22 people were killed in a bus collision and three died when a train derailed in separate accidents south of Cairo on Wednesday during a busy holiday travel time, reports BSS. The...

News Hour: At least one person has been killed in an ongoing attack on a charity in central Kabul, the interior ministry said on Tuesday, after a wave of explosions hit the Afghan capital, reports BSS....

News Hour: A four-year-old girl was among two people killed after a bomb hidden in a motorcycle was detonated outside a school in Thailand’s insurgency-plagued south, authorities said on Tuesday, reports BSS. The device, packed in...

News Hour: Hundreds of Buddhist hardliners booed former UN chief Kofi Annan as he arrived in Myanmar’s troubled Rakhine state on Tuesday to probe religious conflict that has displaced tens of thousands of Muslim Rohingya, reports...

News Hour: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump landed just ahead of Democrat Hillary Clinton in a new national poll released on Tuesday, which showed the real estate mogul chiseling away at his opponent’s former lead, reports...

News Hour: Pro-democracy groups have retained their one-third veto bloc in Hong Kong’s 70-seat Legislative Council (Legco) following an election marked by a record voter turnout and the emergence of candidates calling for independence from China,...

News Hour: Two Taliban suicide bombers blew themselves up close to the Afghan defence ministry in Kabul during late afternoon rush hour, killing at least 24 people and wounding 91 others, according to health ministry officials,...