GENEVA, SWITZERLAND (BNO NEWS) — The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) has called for an immediate ceasefire in Syria and ordered an inquiry to investigate alleged abuses committed during the Government’s crackdown on protesters. The resolution was adopted at the end of a two-day special session during which UN High Commissioner for Human Rights [...]
UNITED NATIONS (BNO NEWS) — The United Nations (UN) has called on the U.S. Government to better protect women from domestic violence, saying there are ‘systemic failures’ which require investigation. An independent UN human rights expert said U.S. officials should reassess existing mechanisms to protect women after a regional body found it wanting in defending [...]
WASHINGTON, D.C. (BNO NEWS) — A group of NASA scientists has discovered the coldest class of star-like bodies, with temperatures as cool as the human body, the agency announced on Wednesday. Astronomers unsuccessfully tracked these dark orbs, termed Y dwarfs, for more than a decade as they are almost impossible to see when viewed with [...]
ISTANBUL, TURKEY (BNO NEWS) — Turkish military officials on Tuesday announced that the recent air and artillery strikes against Kurdish rebels have killed up to 100 people. According to the Turkish General Staff, which directed the operations, since last Wednesday, the country’s Air Forces Command’s 2nd Air Force Command in Diyarbakır and the Land Forces [...]
BRUSSELS (BNO NEWS) — The European Union (EU) on Tuesday approved two new financial assistance programs worth a total of €110 million ($159.1 million) for Tunisia. The first program, which has a budget of €90 million ($130 million), is aimed at supporting the economic recovery measures recently adopted by the Tunisian government, while the second [...]
CHARIKAR, AFGHANISTAN (BNO NEWS) — Two German citizens have been missing since Friday when they went hiking in the Afghan province of Parwan, officials said on Tuesday. The two mountain climbers disappeared in the Salang district, about 100 kilometers (62 miles) north of Kabul, Brigadier General Sher Ahmad Maldani, the provincial police chief, told Pajhwok [...]
WASHINGTON, D.C. (BNO NEWS) — One of the strongest earthquakes to strike the U.S. East Coast in decades rocked buildings as far as North Carolina and Canada on early Tuesday afternoon, seismologists said, causing damage to buildings and a number of injuries. The 5.8-magnitude earthquake at 1.51 p.m. local time (1751 GMT) was centered about [...]
TOKYO (BNO NEWS) — A strong earthquake struck off the coast of northeastern Japan on Friday afternoon, seismologists said, prompting a tsunami advisory for some areas. The 6.8-magnitude earthquake at 2.36 p.m. local time (0536 GMT) was centered about 100 kilometers (62 miles) northeast of Iwaki, a city located in the southern part of the [...]
SERANG, INDONESIA (BNO NEWS) – A Muslim sect member was sentenced on Monday to six months in prison for disobeying police and violent assault in a deadly mob attack perpetrated against him and other Ahmadiyah members, The Jakarta Globe reported on Tuesday. On February 6, three men were killed and five were seriously injured when [...]
NYALA (BNO NEWS) — An Italian aid worker was kidnapped by a group of armed men in the Sudanese region of South Sudan on Sunday, officials confirmed on Monday. His current status is unknown. The incident happened at around 5 p.m. local time when Francesco Azzara, 34, was on his way to an airport in [...]
