Politics

News Hour: President Barack Obama pressed Democrats black and white to vote in droves for Hillary Clinton on Wednesday, warning Donald Trump was a threat to hard-earned civil rights, the country, and the world. Painting the...

News Hour: More than 27 million people have already voted in the US presidential election, and early trends are offering some hints of the outcome less than a week before Election Day. Six days before the...

News Hour: Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton launched bitter attacks on each other’s character on Tuesday as a new poll suggested the White House race has tightened in the final week. Trump stormed into Democratic territory...

News Hour: South Korea’s embattled president Park Geun-Hye replaced her prime minister and two other top cabinet members on Wednesday, in her latest bid to contain a damaging political scandal. The move was part of a...

News Hour: The world’s largest pan-Islamic body, the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, said its Saudi chief resigned on Monday, days after infuriating Egypt over a remark that mocked President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. OIC Secretary-General Iyad Madani...

News Hour: Michel Aoun, the former Lebanese army chief, has been elected president of Lebanon, ending more than two years of deadlock surrounding the vacancy. Aoun, 81, secured the presidency by winning the support of 83 MPs,...

News Hour: Turkey has dismissed another 10,000 civil servants and closed 15 more media outlets over suspected links with “terrorist organisations” and US-based cleric Fethullah Gulen, blamed by Ankara for orchestrating a failed coup. More than...

News Hour: Hillary Clinton took to the stage with Jennifer Lopez in Miami on late Saturday when the music superstar performed a free concert in the rain to encourage early voting in the battleground state of...

News Hour: Spain turns the page on a 10-month political crisis on Saturday as lawmakers ready to vote the conservatives back in power, although at the head of a government with the unprecedented opposition. Aided by...

News Hour: Lebanon’s parliament is set to end more than two years of stalemate on Monday by electing ex-general Michel Aoun as president, but the vote is unlikely to heal deep political divisions. Aoun, a Christian...