Politics

News Hour: An Israeli has been killed and another wounded in a car-ramming attack in the occupied West Bank, the Israeli military says. The military said the driver was taken into custody after the incident near...

News Hour: Israel has been barring entry to and from the besieged Gaza Strip for human rights workers and researchers, according to a new report by international rights organisation, Human Rights Watch (HRW). In the report, titled...

News Hour: US President Donald Trump on Monday put concerns about Egypt’s human rights abuses aside as he welcomed Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi to the White House. Ahead of the meeting, senior US officials had...

News Hour: A row has erupted over Ecuador’s presidential elections after early results indicate a victory for the incumbent party’s candidate. With more than 98% of the votes counted, Lenin Moreno of the Socialist Party had...

News Hour: Venezuela’s pro-government Supreme Court revoked its takeover of the opposition-led Congress on Saturday after it drew international condemnation and protests against socialist President Nicolas Maduro. “This controversy is over,” Maduro said just after midnight...

News Hour: France’s polling commission has issued a warning over a Russian news report suggesting conservative candidate Francois Fillon leads the race for the presidency – something which contradicts the findings of mainstream opinion pollsters. The...

News Hour: Ayad al-Jumaili, believed to be the deputy of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, has been killed in an air strike, Iraqi State TV said on Saturday, citing Iraqi military intelligence. The U.S.-led anti-Islamic...

News Hour: Philippines’ President Rodrigo Duterte lashed out on Friday at European Union critics of his bloody anti-narcotics campaign, threatening to “slap” them. It is the latest of the leader’s near-daily diatribe against the United States,...

News Hour: A protester was killed in Paraguay after violent clashes overnight sparked by a secret Senate vote for a constitutional amendment that would allow President Horacio Cartes to run for re-election. Activists were seen arriving...

News Hour: Venezuela’s pro-government Supreme Court on Saturday revoked its controversial annulment of the opposition-led Congress amid international condemnation and protests against socialist President Nicolas Maduro. Unprecedented pressure from other Latin American nations and dissent within...