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News Hour: Two huge US strategic bombers flew over South Korea on Tuesday in a show of force against North Korea following Pyongyang’s fifth and largest-ever nuclear test. The supersonic B-1B Lancers reached airspace over the...

News Hour: China and Russia were to start war games in the South China Sea on Monday, Beijing’s defence ministry said, in a show of force after an international tribunal invalidated the Asian giant’s extensive claims...

News Hour: A barrage of airstrikes on rebel-held areas in Syria have killed scores of people, just hours after the government in Damascus approved a US-Russian plan to halt fighting in the country’s suppurating civil war....

News Hour: Cuba said on Friday the United States’s 54- year-old trade embargo has cost the island $4.7 billion since April 2015 despite the former Cold War enemies’ historic rapprochement, reports BSS. Washington and Havana announced...

News Hour: The United States and Russia agreed to a deal on Friday to impose a ceasefire in Syria, and if the truce holds they will begin a joint military effort against Islamic jihadists. US Secretary...

News Hour: Prisoners throughout the United States went on strike on Friday, answering social media calls to protest prison living conditions in a mobilization whose magnitude remains difficult to assess. Two Florida prisons — Gulf Correctional...

News Hour: IOM, with support from the US State Department’s Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration (PRM), and in coordination with UNHCR and other implementing partners, has helped resettle more than 10,000 Syrian refugees to the...

News Hour: LEGO A/S reported a decline in revenue growth and profits for the first half of 2016, but only because the Danish toymaker needed time to add production capacity to meet increased demand for its...

News Hour: A U.S. drone strike killed at least six suspected al-Qaida operators overnight in Yemen’s northeast province of Marib, a security official said on Monday, reports BSS. The drone strike launched late Sunday night in...

News Hour: The United States and Russia came up short on Sunday in attempts to finalize a ceasefire deal in Syria, as US President Barack Obama said “grave differences” remained and fighting on the ground continued,...