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…

BAGHDAD (BNO NEWS) — Hundreds of Iraqi citizens on Friday took part in an anti-government demonstration in the capital of Baghdad, the Aswat al-Iraq news agency reported. Tight security was in place.

The demands of the demonstrators varied from one g…

SAN DIEGO (BNO NEWS) — Power was restored to all 1.4 million customers of San Diego Gas & Electric on Friday following a massive blackout that affected southern California, Arizona, and parts of Mexico.

San Diego Gas & Electric announced in a…

LAHORE (BNO NEWS) — An ongoing dengue fever outbreak in Pakistan’s eastern province of Punjab has killed at least eleven people so far and affected thousands of people, officials said on Friday.

According to statistics released by the Health Departme…

UNITED NATIONS (BNO NEWS) — The United Nations (UN) on Friday called on Nigeria to urgently address ethnic and religious violence which has left hundreds of people killed in recent weeks alone.

Rupert Colville, spokesman for the UN High Commissioner …

LASHKARGAH, AFGHANISTAN (BNO NEWS) — At least seven people were killed on Friday morning when a suicide bomber targeted a police station in southern Afghanistan, officials said.

The attack happened when a suicide bomber blew up his explosive-filled v…