UNITED NATIONS (BNO NEWS) — The five countries bordering the Caspian Sea have undertaken the commitment to strengthen regional responses to oil pollution in the world’s largest enclosed body of water, the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) announced on Monday. High-level representatives from Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Russia and Turkmenistan met last week in the Kazakhstan [...]
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WELLINGTON (BNO NEWS) — Heavy snow fell in many parts of the North and South Islands of New Zealand on Monday, causing major disruption, closing schools, roads and airports, the local daily New Zealand Herald reported on Tuesday. Forecasters have said that more snow is expected to strike much of the country later on Tuesday, [...]
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JAKARTA, INDONESIA (BNO NEWS) – Suspended North Sumatra Governor Syamusul Arifin was sentenced by an Indonesian court on Monday to more than two years in prison on corruptions charges. Chairman of the Jakarta Corruption Court’s panel of judges, Tjokorda, announced the verdict after it was proven that Syamusul disposed of Rp 97.8 billion ($11.4 million) of [...]
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NIAGARA FALLS (BNO NEWS) – A Japanese student is presumed to have been killed on Sunday when she fell into the Niagara Falls while taking a picture, police said on Monday. According to reports, the 19-year-old female was standing on top of protective railing while holding an umbrella to take a picture with Niagara Falls in [...]
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ST PETERSBURG, RUSSIA (BNO NEWS) — Three people were killed on late Monday evening when a small plane crashed near the Russian city of St. Petersburg, officials said on Tuesday. The accident happened at around 11.10 p.m. local time when the four-seat aircraft crashed into a river near the town of Kuksino, which is located [...]
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MIAMI (BNO NEWS) — Tropical Depression Six-E formed between the Pacific coast of Mexico and the Hawaiian islands on early Monday afternoon, forecasters said, but there is no immediate threat to land. The system is expected to soon become a tropical storm. Forecasters at the U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) have been following the weather [...]
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TZANEEN, SOUTH AFRICA (BNO NEWS) — South African search-and-rescue teams on Tuesday morning resumed a search in the country’s northeast after two planes carrying a total of 12 people went missing during severe weather on Sunday. The two Albatross planes, carrying six people each, went missing on Sunday in the George’s Valley area between Polokwane [...]
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SYDNEY (BNO NEWS) — Police in the U.S. state of Kentucky have arrested a 50-year-old man for allegedly strapping a fake bomb to the neck of a teenage girl in Sydney, Australian police announced on Tuesday. The incident happened on August 3 when a balaclava-clad man entered a multi-million dollar house in Sydney’s exclusive suburb [...]
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WASHINGTON, D.C. (BNO NEWS) — NASA on Wednesday announced that its Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has reached the planet’s Endeavour crater to study rocks never seen before. On Monday, the golf cart-sized rover relayed its arrival at a location named Spirit Point on the crater’s rim, after a journey of almost three years. Opportunity was [...]
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KABUL (BNO NEWS) — Coalition forces on Tuesday conducted an airstrike against the Taliban insurgents who were allegedly involved in the recent downing of a U.S. helicopter in Afghanistan, killing 38 U.S. and Afghan service members. The strike, which was carried out in the Chak district of Wardak province, killed local Taliban leader Mullah Mohibullah [...]
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