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News Hour: An ex-MI6 officer who is believed to have prepared a memo claiming Russia has compromising material on US President-elect Donald Trump is now in hiding, the BBC understands. Christopher Steele, who runs a London-based...

News Hour: The Obama administration on Thursday repealed a measure granting automatic residency to virtually every Cuban who arrived in the United States, whether or not they had visas, ending a longstanding exception to U.S. immigration...

News Hour: The U.S. Justice Department on Thursday said it would probe a Federal Bureau of Investigation decision to announce an inquiry into Hillary Clinton’s emails shortly before the November presidential election, a move she has...

News Hour: The U.S. House of Representatives moved toward a Friday vote to begin dismantling Obamacare despite anxiety among some Republicans they were rushing into a major step without knowing the budget consequences or having a...

News Hour: Landphone operator RanksTel today announced Bangladesh’s fastest internet service with 1,000 Megabits per second (1Gbps), , which can soon be availed by common users. Initially the operator is offering internet service only in corporate...

News Hour: The Kremlin said on Wednesday it was “total nonsense” that Russian officials had assembled a file of compromising information on U.S. President-elect Donald Trump. Two U.S. officials said on Tuesday evening that the heads...

News Hour: The dollar inched higher against the yen on Wednesday but was steady against the basket of currencies used to measure its broader strength as investors awaited U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s first formal news conference....

News Hour: Twenty people were trapped for almost two hours at the top of a roller coaster ride at a theme park on Australia’s Gold Coast on Wednesday, said emergency services, only a few months after...

News Hour: The actor was arrested Tuesday night following a complaint lodged by Zia’s employers. Prothom Alo Manager (Security) Retd Major Sajjad Ul Kabir lodged the complaint on behalf of his organisation with the Kalabagan police. The actor...

News Hour: Dylann S. Roof, the unrepentant and inscrutable white supremacist who killed nine African-American churchgoers in a brazen racial rampage almost 19 months ago, an outburst of extremist violence that shocked the nation, was condemned...