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NEW DELHI (BNO NEWS) — Five men were detained on Thursday in India-controlled Kashmir in connection with the deadly bomb blast at the New Delhi High Court that happened a day earlier, local media reported.
Investigators traced an email sent by the Ha…
LONDON (BNO NEWS) — A series of brutal acts by British soldiers led directly to the death of Baha Mousa who was detained in Iraq in 2003, an independent inquiry into the death reported on Thursday.
Mousa, a 26-year-old Iraqi hotel clerk, was detaine…
HONG KONG (BNO NEWS) — Trade unions on Thursday gathered outside HSBC’s headquarters in Hong Kong to protest against the banking giant’s plan to lay off 3,000 staff during the next three years, Radio Television Hong Kong reported.
Members of the Fed…
SANTA MONICA, CALIFORNIA (BNO NEWS) — Oscar-winning actress Reese Witherspoon, who is known for her roles in movies such as ‘Walk the Line’, was hit by a car in Santa Monica, California on Wednesday, local authorities said on Thursday.
The accident h…
BERLIN, GERMANY (BNO NEWS) — German police arrested two suspected terrorists on Thursday after thwarting a suspected bomb plot, just days before the tenth anniversary of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, officials said.
Police captured two m…
CHRISTCHURCH, NEW ZEALAND (BNO NEWS) — The remains of four people who died when a strong earthquake struck the New Zealand city of Christchurch in February will remain unidentified, officials announced on Thursday.
A total of 181 people were killed o…
LONDON (BNO NEWS) — Oil and gas company BP on Wednesday announced that it has found new oil sources in the Gulf of Mexico, 1.5 year after the Deepwater Horizon disaster.
BP said a successful appraisal well has been drilled in a previously untested no…
UNITED NATIONS (BNO NEWS) — The United Nations (UN) on Wednesday called on the Sudanese Government to immediately end its air strikes on civilian populations as has been reported in Southern Kordofan state.
Two senior UN human rights officials said t…
NEW DELHI (BNO NEWS) — The United Nations (UN) Security Council has condemned “in the strongest terms” the deadly bomb blast outside the High Court in the Indian capital of New Delhi on Wednesday morning.
The blast happened at around 10.30 a.m. local…
KABUL (BNO NEWS) — A French paratrooper was shot dead during an operation in northeastern Afghanistan on Wednesday morning, the French presidential palace Elysee said in a statement.
Elysee said the lieutenant was shot dead by an insurgent during an…
