CHENNAI, INDIA (BNO NEWS) — At least 46 people have been killed and thousands of homes have been damaged after severe Cyclone Thane struck India’s southeastern coast on Friday, officials said on Saturday. The death toll is expected to rise.

Cyclone T…

SANAA (BNO NEWS) — Tens of thousands of people took to the streets of Yemen on Friday to demand that embattled President Ali Abdullah Saleh face trial for the killings of hundreds of anti-government protesters during the uprising this year.

Saleh ha…

ANKARA (BNO NEWS) — The Turkish government on Friday said it regrets an airstrike which mistakenly killed 35 civilians along the Turkey-Iraq border on late Wednesday evening, the Antolia news agency reported.

Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said …

AMMAN (BNO NEWS) — Thousands of Jordanians took to the streets of downtown Amman on Friday to call for genuine political reforms and condemn the continued attacks on peaceful activists, Ammon News reported.

The protest organized by the Muslim Brothe…

KHARTOUM, SUDAN (BNO NEWS) — Six people were killed on Friday when a military plane crashed shortly after take-off in the southern region of Sudan, local media reported. There were no survivors.

Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) spokesman al-Sawarmi Khalid…

HANOI, VIETNAM (BNO NEWS) — A Vietnamese sailor was found alive on Friday after his cargo ship sank off the coast of Vietnam on Sunday, killing nearly two dozen people, officials said.

The English MV London Courage ship found 31-year-old Dau Ngoc Hun…

LOS ANGELES (BNO NEWS) — As many as twenty suspicious fires were set in Hollywood and the City of Los Angeles on early Friday morning, police said. One firefighter was injured while responding to one of the fires.

Sheriff’s officials said the first f…

PYONGYANG (BNO NEWS) — The North Korean military on Friday said the South will ‘pay for its hideous crimes’ during the mourning period for Supreme Leader Kim Jong-il and warned it may launch a retaliatory strike to ‘smash the stronghold of the puppet …

NEW YORK (BNO NEWS) — The United Nations (UN) on Friday expressed its deep concern about reports that elements of the armed forces in Côte d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast) have engaged in serious human rights violations in recent weeks.

Kenneth Blackman, a sp…