Politics

News Hour: Barack Obama used his farewell UN address on Tuesday to castigate strongmen and populists, taking aim at Russia’s Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump’s rise at home. Obama told the UN General Assembly that democracy...

News Hour: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon opened the annual General Assembly debate on Tuesday with a call to end the fighting in Syria as he condemned the “sickening, savage” attack on an aid convoy. “I appeal...

News Hour: Iranian President Hassan Rouhani arrived in Cuba on Monday where he met with his counterpart, Raul Castro, and the Cuban president’s older brother and predecessor, Fidel Castro. Rouhani had said ahead of the one-day...

News Hour: An Austrian man went on trial on Tuesday accused of driving his 4×4 at high speed down a crowded pedestrian street in the city of Graz last year, killing three people including a four-year-old....

News Hour: A German immigration official has been arrested and charged with espionage for an Indian secret service for allegedly spying on members of the Sikh religion, prosecutors said on Tuesday. The 58-year-old German national, identified...

News Hour: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump raised the threat of violence against his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton again on Friday, suggesting her Secret Service guards voluntarily disarm and “see what happens to her.” Members of...

News Hour: The Non-Aligned Movement opens a summit on Saturday in Venezuela, seeking relevance in a post-Cold War world as the crisis-torn host country seeks to lessen its growing isolation. Leaders from the 120-nation group will...

News Hour: The UN Security Council on Wednesday urged South Sudan’s government to take immediate steps to allow a new regional force to deploy in Juba as it weighed imposing an arms embargo. Following a closed-door...

News Hour: Japan’s main opposition party chose a half-Taiwanese former model and TV anchorwoman as its new leader on Thursday, as it looks to reboot its fortunes after four years in the political wilderness. The telegenic...

News Hour: Former Israeli President Shimon Peres is in “serious but stable” condition after suffering a major stroke, according to the doctors treating him. Doctors put the 93-year-old elder statesman, who was rushed to hospital on...