NILKA, CHINA (BNO NEWS) — A strong earthquake struck northwestern China on early Tuesday morning, seismologists said, but it was not immediately known if there were injuries or damage.

The 6.0-magnitude earthquake at 8.21 a.m. local time (0021 GMT) w…

NEW YORK (BNO NEWS) — The United Nations and U.S. President Barack Obama on Monday commended the people of Kyrgyzstan for conducting presidential elections in a peaceful manner on Sunday.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged all political forces i…

NEW YORK (BNO NEWS) — The United Nations and U.S. President Barack Obama on Monday commended the people of Kyrgyzstan for conducting presidential elections in a peaceful manner on Sunday.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged all political forces i…

GUANGYUAN, CHINA (BNO NEWS) — A moderate earthquake struck near a city in west China on early Tuesday morning, seismologists said, but it was not immediately known if there were injuries or damage.

The 5.4-magnitude earthquake at 5.58 a.m. local time…

WASHINGTON, D.C. (BNO NEWS) — The U.S. government on Monday announced it has been forced to cut all funding to the United Nations cultural agency UNESCO after it voted to grant full membership to Palestine.

U.S. State Department spokeswoman Victoria …

ROME (BNO NEWS) — Italy’s youth unemployment rate has climbed to its highest rate in almost eight years, the Italian National Institute of Statistics (ISTAT) said on Monday.

The jobless rate among people between 15 and 24 years of age increased 1.3 p…

MOSCOW (BNO NEWS) — A Russian court on Monday awarded $100,000 in compensation to two families whose daughters were accidentally switched at birth in hospital, media reports said.

In December 1998, Irina and Anya were born 15 minutes apart in the sa…

MIRANSHAH, PAKISTAN (BNO NEWS) — Four police officers and a civilian were killed on Monday when insurgent rebels ambushed a patrol team in northeastern India, officials told a local newspaper.

The highway police patrol team in the Nengpatchi area of …

BANGKOK (BNO NEWS) — At least four people were injured on Monday morning when multiple bombs went off in Thailand’s restive south, the Bangkok Post reported.

The first bomb went off at Ban Nam Khao in Narathiwat, severing the right leg of a village d…