Politics

News Hour: More than 2,000 Iraqis a day are fleeing Mosul, several hundred more each day than before U.S.-led coalition forces began a new phase of their battle to retake the city from Islamic State, the...

News Hour: Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives agreed on Monday to weaken a nonpartisan ethics watchdog on the grounds it had grown too intrusive, prompting Democrats to charge they were scaling back independent oversight...

News Hour: U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s “clear warning” to North Korea shows he is aware of the urgency of the threat posed by its nuclear program and will not waver from a policy of sanctions against...

News Hour: North Korea has been working through 2016 on developing components for an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), making the isolated nation’s claim that it was close to a test-launch plausible, international weapons experts said on...

News Hour: The Indian Supreme Court has ruled that politicians cannot use religion or caste to seek votes, reports BBC. “Religion has no role in electoral process, which is a secular activity,” the judges said in...

News Hour: South Korea’s acting president pledged a return to stability on Sunday in a New Year message aimed at reassuring the country after a political crisis triggered President Park Geun-Hye’s impeachment. Prime Minister Hwang Kyo-Ahn...

News Hour: Nigeria’s government will seek a lasting peace settlement with militants in the oil-producing southern Niger Delta region in 2017, President Muhammadu Buhari said in a New Year’s message on Saturday. Attacks on oil facilities...

Talks on a deal that would see Congo President Joseph Kabila step down next year continue to falter over the naming of an interim prime minister, one negotiator said, but he held out hope that agreement...

News Hour: Under U.S. pressure, the leader of Bosnia’s autonomous Serb Republic on Friday submitted to questioning by prosecutors, after defying a summons for three months, for holding a referendum in violation of a Constitutional Court...

News Hour: Nearly a fifth more migrants arrived in Italy by boat this year, setting a record and bringing the three-year total to more than half a million, the Interior Ministry said on Friday. In commenting...