CASTLE ROCK, COLORADO (BNO NEWS) — A Colorado woman accused of killing her two young children was charged on Friday with four counts of first-degree murder, the Denver Post reported. According to state court records, Kelli Lynn Murphy faces two charges of first-degree murder after deliberation, two charges of first-degree murder of a victim under [...]
BALI, INDONESIA (BNO NEWS) — Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi on Friday announced Iran’s readiness to help Somalia end the longstanding crisis in the Horn of Africa country. Press TV reported that Salehi offered to use all the country’s capacities to help end the bloodshed in the war-ravaged country during a meeting with his [...]
SALTA, ARGENTINA (BNO NEWS) — Authorities on Friday announced that a police chief was detained while in possession of more than 50 kilograms of cocaine in northern Argentina, El Clarin newspaper reported. Carlos Gallardo, head of the Intelligence department of the provincial police, and two other people was arrested in Salta province, northern Argentina. The [...]
ATHENS, GREECE (BNO NEWS) — Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou on Friday failed to win support for a new package of austerity measures following a long meeting with his political rivals, the Kathimerini newspaper reported. “There are many points on which we can agree. But there is a need for political will from all sides,” [...]
JAKARTA, INDONESIA (BNO NEWS) — The government of Germany on Friday agreed to aid Indonesia with its Forest and Climate Change program (ForClime), local media reported. ForClime, which is targeting to decrease the CO2 emission rate from deforestation and forest degradation by 300 to 400 thousand tons during a seven-year period, will be carried out [...]
UNITED NATIONS (BNO NEWS) — United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Friday expressed concern about potential flotillas to Gaza and asked countries around the Mediterranean Sea to discourage their use to deliver assistance to the territory. “The Secretary-General called on all Governments concerned to use their influence to discourage such flotillas, which carry the potential [...]
ANCHORAGE, ALASKA (BNO NEWS) — All five passengers a board a small plane died after the aircraft crashed on railroad tracks in the southern region of the state of Alaska, local authorities said Friday. The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) confirmed that a single-engine Cessna 180 aircraft had crashed around half a mile from Alaska’s [...]
MADRID (BNO NEWS) — Tens of thousands of people on Saturday continue to protest against high unemployment and the Spanish government’s austerity measures, defying a ban on protesting before the local elections. El PaÃs reported that protesters, most of them young, gathered in the main Spanish cities to demand “real democracy”. Thousands of people have [...]
KABUL (BNO NEWS) — A suspected suicide bomber on late Saturday morning detonated himself inside one of the largest military hospitals in Afghanistan, witnesses and officials said, killing at least 3 people. The attack happened just before noon local time inside a tent of the 400-bed Charsad Bestar Hospital in central Kabul. The hospital, which [...]
SANAA, YEMEN (BNO NEWS) — Yemen’s opposition on Saturday signed a Gulf-brokered deal for a transition of power to end the country’s political crisis, an opposition official said. “The opposition Joint Meeting Parties (JMP) signed the U.S.- backed deal proposed by the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) at the presence of the GCC Secretary-General Abdullatif al-Zayani, [...]
