KABUL (BNO NEWS) — Troops with the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan welcomed the year 2011 on Saturday as the alliance said goodbye to a grim year with the highest coalition death toll on record.

In 2010, NATO an…

HONOLULU (BNO NEWS) — U.S. President Barack Obama spent New Year’s Eve in Hawaii by playing golf with friends and attending a private talent show with his family.

Obama and the First Family have been staying on the Hawaiian island of Oahu since Decem…

ABUJA, NIGERIA (BNO NEWS) — An explosion on Friday killed at least eleven people at a market in the Nigerian capital of Abuja, continuing violence in the African country, the BBC reported.

The explosion was caused by a bomb that was detonated at the …

MINSK, BELARUS (BNO NEWS) — Belarus on Friday closed down the office of the Organziation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) after the European body criticized December’s presidential elections.

According to RIA Novosti, Belarusian authorit…

JERUSALEM (BNO NEWS) — Iran on Friday accused the Israeli government of kidnapping former Deputy Defense Minister Ali Reza Asghari who went missing in Istanbul, Turkey in 2006.

According to the Haaretz newspaper, Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister in th…

HAVANA, CUBA (BNO NEWS) — Russia and Cuba on Thursday signed an inter-parliamentary cooperation pact in order to improve bilateral relations, the Cuban News Agency (ACN) reported on Friday.

The pact was signed by Ricardo Alarcon de Quesada, president…

BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA (BNO NEWS) — At least 45 people on Friday were injured after two trains collided in Buenos Aires, Argentina, TELAM news agency reported.

At about 11:00 a.m. local time, two trains from TBA company collided in the Palermo area …

BRUSSELS (BNO NEWS) — The European Council on New Year’s Eve extended the visa ban list against a group of people who are known allies of Côte D’Ivoire President Laurent Gbagbo, who is refusing to step aside after losing elections last month.

The C…

MOSCOW, RUSSIA (BNO NEWS) — Russian opposition leader Eduard Limonov on Friday was arrested by police forces ahead of a protest rally on Moscow, RIA Novosti news agency reported.

Limonov was arrested while he was preparing to join an opposition rally…