UNITED NATIONS (BNO NEWS) — The United Nations (UN) on Wednesday declared a famine in two regions of southern Somalia, namely due to the worst drought in decades.

With millions of people in desperate need of help, the UN Humanitarian Coordinator for …

TOKYO (BNO NEWS) — The crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, which has been the main source of Japan’s ongoing nuclear crisis since March’s devastating earthquake, was successfully stabilized and is now on its way to a ‘cold shutdown,’ officials s…

TEHRAN (BNO NEWS) — Heavy flooding in northwestern Iran over the weekend has killed at least three people while a dozen more remain missing, state-run media reported on Monday.

The state-run Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) said heavy rains in the…

MEXICO CITY (BNO NEWS) — The Mexican government on Sunday said the death toll as a result of Tropical Storm Arlene and its aftermath has risen to at least 10. Arlene made landfall in northeastern Mexico earlier this week and has since dissipated but h…

TOKYO (BNO NEWS) — The government of Japan on Thursday announced that a budget of 2 trillion yen ($24.8 billion) is being prepared to be distributed to cover compensation claims in relation to the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power …

TOKYO (BNO NEWS) — Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan is expected to resign in about two months, some six months after an enormous earthquake and tsunami devastated the country, local media reported on Wednesday.

According to reports, Kan would resign…

XINJIANG UYGUR, CHINA (BNO NEWS) — Rescue workers have recovered the bodies of four people who went missing on Sunday when flooding washed away their trucks in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, the state-run Xinhua news agency report…

BEIJING, CHINA (BNO NEWS) — New torrential rains and flooding in the southern region of China has left seven more people killed and seven others missing, officials said on Wednesday, raising the overall death toll to at least 112.

China’s Civil Affai…

ASMARA, ERITREA (BNO NEWS) — A number of flights in eastern Africa are facing disruption after a volcano erupted in the Southern Red Sea Region of Eritrea on early Monday morning, officials said. It is the first eruption at the volcano since 1861.

Th…

ASMARA, ERITREA (BNO NEWS) — A volcano erupted in the Southern Red Sea Region of Eritrea on early Monday morning, experts said, sending an ash cloud kilometers (miles) up into the air. It is the first eruption at the volcano since 1861.

The chief for…