Politics

News Hour: Democrat Hillary Clinton has widened her lead over White House rival Donald Trump to eight points after both parties’ nominating conventions, according to a Washington Post-ABC News poll out Sunday, reports BSS. Clinton led...

News Hour: Brazil’s presidential impeachment drama enters its end game on Thursday when a Senate committee will vote whether to recommend removing elected president Dilma Rousseff’s from office, reports BSS. The vote in the capital Brasilia...

News Hour: The White House on Wednesday denied renewed accusations that it paid Iran ransom for the release of four American prisoners, parrying a tidal wave of condemnations from Republicans, reports BSS. Amid revelations that the...

News Hour: In a searing and virtually unprecedented presidential rebuke, Barack Obama declared embattled Republican White House nominee Donald Trump “unfit” to be president on Tuesday and called on party leaders to disown him, reports BSS....

News Hour: Nepal’s parliament elected former guerrilla and Maoist leader Pushpa Kamal Dahal as prime minister on Wednesday after his predecessor resigned following deadly unrest over a divisive new constitution, reports BSS. Dahal, better known by...

News Hour: South Sudanese President Salva Kiir has fired five ministers, according to an official decree, in a move that removed figures known for close ties to ex-rebel leader Riek Machar, reports BSS. Under a peace...

News Hour: The leader of Nepal’s Maoist party appeared certain to be the next prime minister after the deadline for nominations expired on Tuesday with only his name on the ballot, reports bSS. Lawmakers in the...

News Hour: Tokyo elected the country’s former defence minister, Yuriko Koike, as its first female governor on Sunday, media exit polls show, reports Aljazeera. “I will lead Tokyo politics in an unprecedented manner, a Tokyo you have...

News Hour: Tens of thousands of Congolese demonstrators chanting anti-government slogans and waving opposition flags rallied in the capital on Sunday to demand President Joseph Kabila step down when his mandate ends in November, reports Reuters....

News Hour: U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said Russian intelligence services hacked into Democratic National Committee computers and she accused Republican contender Donald Trump of showing support for Russian President Vladimir Putin, reports Reuters. “We...