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BERLIN (BNO NEWS) — European and American stock markets plunged on Friday afternoon after European Central Bank (ECB) chief economist Jürgen Stark unexpectedly resigned ‘for personal reasons’, although analysts believe there is another reason.
A br…
BRAUNAU (BNO NEWS) — An 80-year-old man from northwestern Austria was released on Friday after his two adult daughters retracted previous statements in which they claimed their father had raped and imprisoned them for more than 40 years.
Police in th…
KABUL (BNO NEWS) — Five coalition service members were killed as a result of three separate attacks in eastern and southern Afghanistan on Friday, the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said.
The deadliest incident happened in ea…
SANTIAGO, CHILE (BNO NEWS) — Thousands of people on Friday morning participated in an earthquake and tsunami drill in the central region of the country, more than 1.5 year after a massive earthquake struck off its coast.
More than 7,000 people were e…
SANAA (BNO NEWS) — Tens of thousands of protesters on Friday demonstrated across Yemen to demand the ousting of the country’s long-time ruler Ali Abdullah Saleh, eyewitnesses said.
Protesters took to the streets after Friday prayers in major Yemeni c…
NEW YORK (BNO NEWS) — Hackers on late Friday afternoon hijacked an account belonging to NBC News on the social networking website Twitter and posted fake news alerts about a terrorist attack in New York City.
The false messages on the verified Twitte…
VANCOUVER (BNO NEWS) — A strong earthquake struck off Vancouver Island in British Columbia on early Friday afternoon, seismologists said, with tremors felt as far away as the city of Vancouver and the U.S. state of Washington.
The 6.4-magnitude earth…
PORT HARDY (BNO NEWS) — A strong earthquake struck off Vancouver Island in British Columbia on early Friday afternoon, seismologists said, but no tsunami warnings were issued.
The 6.7-magnitude earthquake at 12.41 p.m. local time (1941 GMT) was cente…
PORT HARDY (BNO NEWS) — Strong 6.7-magnitude earthquake strikes 84 miles (135 kilometers) south-southeast of Port Hardy, Canada.
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TIKRIT (BNO NEWS) — Authorities have discovered a mass grave containing the bodies of at least 40 people in the northern region of Iraq, local media reported on Friday. Few details were immediately available.
The Aswat al-Iraq news agency said the ma…
