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News Hour: Rio Olympics organizers stepped up police patrols on Wednesday as security concerns mounted over the threat posed by street violence, with a Games bus being hit by stones and a security patrol coming under...

News Hour: When Yusra Mardini dove into the Olympic pool, she made history. It wasn’t her time on the scoreboard — it was simply that she was there, reports cbsnews. “When you are an athlete, you...

News Hour: Australian teenager Kyle Chalmers ended 48 years of agony and frustration for his swimming-crazy country when he won the men’s 100m freestyle gold medal at the Rio Olympics on Wednesday, reports BSS. The 18-year-old...

News Hour: A Kazakh weightlifter who has served a two-year doping ban smashed a world record to stun China’s Lyu Xiaojun and grab Olympic gold at the men’s 77kg weightlifting in Rio Wednesday, reports BSS. The...

News Hour: Hungary’s Katinka Hosszu snared her third gold medal of the Olympic Games here Tuesday, dominating the field to win the 200m individual medley, reports BSS. Hosszu, nicknamed the “Iron Lady”, hit the wall in...

News Hour: Olympic champion and world number one Serena Williams was bundled out of the Rio de Janeiro tennis tournament in the third round of the singles on Tuesday after a shock 6-4 6-3 defeat to...

News Hour: Michael Phelps claimed his second gold medal in one night and the 21st of his career as the United States won the men’s 4×200 meters Olympic freestyle relay on Tuesday, reports Reuters. The most...

News Hour: A bus carrying journalists at the Rio Games was hit by gunfire on a highway between Olympic venues on Tuesday, witnesses said. No one was seriously injured in the incident, reports Reuters. The bus...

News Hour: In Rio 2016 Olympic, Ten refugees made history as members of the first-ever Refugee Olympic Team. They havestarted competing in their heats at Rio2016. The team includes two Syrian swimmers, two judokas from the...

News Hour: Usain Bolt waltzed in to sprinkle a bucket of stardust over Rio on Monday, and while there were Samba smiles and dancing girls, the biggest name at the Olympics could not escape the ever-present...