Politics

News Hour: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump struck a compassionate tone when addressing black churchgoers in Detroit on Saturday, part of a late bid to soften the edges of an abrasive presidential campaign weeks before the...

News Hour: Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte cancelled on Saturday his first foreign trip to Brunei following a deadly blast in his hometown, reports BSS. An improvised explosive device tore through a night market in the southern...

News Hour: The government of the Philippines is planning to introduce mandatory drug tests for all new college students, an official for the Commission on Higher Education said. The measure is the latest step in President...

News Hour: Russian President Vladimir Putin said Moscow was keen to resolve a territorial dispute with Japan ahead of talks on Friday with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, although a solution appears far off, reports BSS. Tokyo-Moscow...

News Hour: Melania Trump, the wife of US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, on Thursday, sued two media outlets that alleged she was an escort in the 1990s, reports BSS. The suit — filed in state circuit...

News Hour: Guinea’s president Alpha Conde and opposition leader Cellou Dalein Diallo met for talks on Thursday, two weeks after violent protests over alleged government corruption swept the capital, reports BSS. One man was shot dead...

News Hour: U.S. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on Wednesday pledged to begin building a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border and deporting undocumented immigrants on the first day of his presidency if elected, reports BSS. “On day...

News Hour: President Barack Obama goes off the beaten track on Thursday — way off — to a marine reserve in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, reports BSS. Obama will take Air Force One three...

News Hour: Venezuela and Brazil on Wednesday withdrew their respective ambassadors after Caracas froze ties with its southern neighbor in response to president Dilma Rousseff’s removal from office, reports BSS. The leftist governments of Ecuador and...

News Hour: Gabon’s interior ministry has declared incumbent President Ali Bongo as the winner of the country’s closely-fought presidential race, reports Aljazeera. Interior Minister Pacome Moubelet Boubeya said on Wednesday Bongo had won 49.80 percent percent of the...