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Two Brazilian nationals die in central Turkey hot air balloon crash

ANKARA, TURKEY (BNO NEWS) -- Two Brazilian nationals died in central Turkey after a hot air balloon crash, local authorities said Monday. The incident occurred in Turkey's touristic region of Cappadocia, in Central Anatolia, when two hot air [...]

China: Two kindergarten girls die after rival principal poisons yogurt

SHIJIAZHUANG, CHINA (BNO NEWS) -- Two young girls in northern China have died after they drank from a bottle of yogurt that had been deliberately poisoned by the principal of a rival kindergarten, local police said on Thursday. The rival principal [...]

Taliban kill senior peace envoy in southern Afghanistan

KABUL, AFGHANISTAN (BNO NEWS) -- A senior member of Afghanistan's peace council was killed Wednesday when suspected Taliban insurgents ambushed his vehicle in the country's south, local officials said. In a separate incident elsewhere in the [...]

Suicide bomber attacks party meeting in northern Pakistan, at least 17 dead

PESHAWAR, PAKISTAN (BNO NEWS) -- At least seventeen people were killed after a suicide bomber attacked a political party meeting in northern Pakistan, local authorities said Tuesday. A public meeting was being held by the Awami National Party [...]

4 more diagnosed with new bird flu virus in China

NANJING, CHINA (BNO NEWS) -- Four more people in eastern China have been diagnosed with a new strain of avian influenza that had never before been transmitted to humans, health authorities said on Tuesday, two days after announcing the first [...]

H7N9 bird flu kills 2 in China in first human cases

SHANGHAI, CHINA (BNO NEWS) -- Two people in China's largest city of Shanghai died this month after contracting a strain of avian influenza that had never been transmitted to humans before, health authorities said on Sunday. A third victim in [...]

Gas explosion kills 28 at coal mine in northeast China

BAISHAN, CHINA (BNO NEWS) -- Twenty-eight miners were killed Friday and more than a dozen were injured when a powerful explosion ripped through a coal mine in northeastern China, officials said on Saturday. It comes just weeks after two other [...]

26 killed when bus plunges down ravine in southern Peru

AREQUIPA, PERU (BNO NEWS) -- At least 26 people, most of them mine workers, were killed Wednesday when a passenger bus plunged into a ravine in southern Peru, local authorities said Thursday. It follows another deadly bus accident in the country [...]

At least 30 killed in northern Thailand refugee camp fire

MAE HONG SON, THAILAND (BNO NEWS) -- At least 30 refugees from Myanmar were killed after their camp in northern Thailand caught fire, local authorities said Friday. The fire broke out Friday evening at around 6 p.m. local time at the Mae Surin [...]

At least 42 killed in suicide bomb attack at Syrian mosque

DAMASCUS, SYRIA (BNO NEWS) -- At least 42 people were killed after a suicide attack on Thursday at a Syrian mosque, local authorities said. The attack occurred at the al-Iman Mosque located in the district of al-Mazraa in Damascus, the country's [...]