Articles Archive for October 2010
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YANGON, MYANMAR (BNO NEWS) — A nationwide internet service outage in Myanmar has entered its second week, but the cause remains unclear, according to a local newspaper report on Monday.
The Weekly Eleven News reported the outage on Monday, saying int…
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WASHINGTON, D.C. (BNO NEWS) — Theodore Sorensen, a close adviser and famed speechwriter to U.S. President John F. Kennedy, died in New York on Sunday, the White House confirmed. He was 82.
Sorensen passed away at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital in Manh…
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MIRANSHAH, PAKISTAN (BNO NEWS) — At least five suspected militants were killed on early Monday morning when a U.S. drone carried out a missile strike in northwest Pakistan, officials said.
The U.S. drone carried out the missile strike in the country’…
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UNITED NATIONS (BNO NEWS) — The United Nations on Sunday called upon Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, the new Prime Minister of Somalia, to form his government and take steps to meet the challenges affecting the Horn of Africa nation.
“I congratulate Prime…
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BRASILIA (BNO NEWS) — Brazil’s former Chief of Staff Dilma Rousseff of the ruling Worker’s Party received the most votes on Sunday’s presidential election, the country’s electoral tribunal said.
With more than 99 percent of the votes counted, Roussef…
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SAO PAULO (BNO NEWS) — Preliminary results of a Brazilian exit poll show that Workers’ Party (PT) politician Dilma Rousseff, a woman, will win the country’s presidential election.
Voting was still underway in parts of Brazil when partial results of …
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DUBAI (BNO NEWS) — Qatar Airways on Sunday confirmed that an explosive device discovered at a FedEx facility in Dubai on Friday had traveled on two of its passenger flights before it was detected, saying it was extremely sophisticated.
The bomb in D…
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PACIFIC OCEAN (BNO NEWS) — A strong earthquake struck the Pacific-Antarctic Ridge on early Saturday morning, seismologists said on Sunday.
The 6.4-magnitude earthquake at 5.18 a.m. local time (1518 GMT) on Saturday was centered on the Pacific-Antarct…
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ISTANBUL (BNO NEWS) — At least one person was killed and several others were injured after a suspected bomb blast that targeted a police vehicle in Istanbul’s main square, local media reported on Sunday.
The blast happened at about 10.38 a.m. local t…
