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JERUSALEM (BNO NEWS) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that the attack on the Israeli embassy in Cairo over the weekend was an assault on “the axis of peace” with Egypt, the Haaretz newspaper reported.
In an address to the we…
MANILA (BNO NEWS) — Three suspected militants were killed on Sunday during a clash with government troops in the southern region of the Philippines, the army chief said.
The fighting erupted when troops encountered about 20 members of the Abu Sayyaf …
COLOMBO (BNO NEWS) — The Sri Lankan Navy on Sunday arrested 44 people who were on board a boat off the country’s eastern coast and were heading to Australia, officials said.
The suspected migrants were on board a fishing trawler which had set sail fr…
KABUL (BNO NEWS) — Two Afghan civilians were killed on Saturday and around 100 others were injured when a suicide bomber detonated his explosive-laden truck outside a U.S. military base in eastern Afghanistan, officials said on Sunday afternoon.
The …
SHANKSVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA (BNO NEWS) — Thousands of people on Saturday gathered in western Pennsylvania to remember the 40 people who died when United Airlines Flight 93 crashed there on Sept. 11, 2001.
Among those who gathered in Stonycreek Township…
BANGKOK (BNO NEWS) — A former physical education teacher accused of repeatedly raping one of his young students over a period of four years was found dead in his cell in northern Thailand on Saturday, local media reported on Sunday.
Phayon Udom, 58, …
ZANZIBAR (BNO NEWS) — A ferry believed to be carrying more than 1,000 people capsized between two islands in the Zanzibar archipelago, off Tanzania, on early Saturday morning, officials and residents said. At least 180 bodies have been recovered.
The…
KABUL (BNO NEWS) — A coalition service member was killed on Saturday as a result of an insurgent attack in eastern Afghanistan, the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said on Sunday morning.
ISAF said one of its service members w…
SANA’A (BNO NEWS) — Pirates killed a crew member on board a French sailing yacht when they hijacked the vessel earlier this week, the European Union Naval Force Somalia (EUNAVFOR) confirmed on Saturday. A second crew member has now been rescued.
EUNA…
TEHRAN (BNO NEWS) — Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) on Saturday said nine members of the Party for Free Life of Kurdistan (PJAK) have been arrested, including two commanders of the group, the state-run Press TV reported.
IRGC Brigadier-…
