BOGOTA, COLOMBIA (BNO NEWS) — At least ten people on Tuesday were injured after an explosion took place in a building in Bogota, the capital city of Colombia, local media reported.

The blast took place in a southern neighborhood in Bogota and damaged…

ABUJA, NIGERIA (BNO NEWS) — The Nigerian government on Tuesday filed charges against former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney on his role in the $180 million Halliburton bribe case.

Cheney was charged among others for their involvement in the bribery s…

BEIJING (BNO NEWS) — Twenty miners are trapped after an accident at a coal mine in central China’s Henan Province, the state-run Xinhua news agency reported on Tuesday.

Other details were not immediately available.
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LONDON (BNO NEWS) — Scotland Yard on Tuesday released the following statement regarding the arrest of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.

“Officers from the Metropolitan Police Service’s Extradition Unit have this morning, Tuesday 7 December, arrested …

NORTHFIELD, ILLINOIS (BNO NEW) — Rescue teams in Colombia have recovered 17 bodies of the 145 buried in the devastating landslide in the northwestern region of Colombia, officials said Monday.

Emergency management director for Antioquia state John F…

NORTHFIELD, ILLINOIS (BNO NEW) — Kraft Foods Inc. on Monday announced that it is seeking a preliminary injunction against Starbucks Coffee Company for violating terms of the roast and ground coffee agreement.

Kraft says Starbucks is attempting to …

PARIS, FRANCE (BNO NEW) — Continental Airlines was found “criminally responsible” for the 2000 Concorde jet crash, which killed all 100 passengers, a Paris court announced Monday.

On July 25, 2000, Concorde flight AF4590 took off from Charles De Gau…

ALPHEN AAN DEN RIJN, NETHERLANDS (BNO NEWS) — Several people were killed on early Monday afternoon when a large explosion rocked an apartment building in the Netherlands, local media reported.

The explosion happened just after 1 p.m. local time at an…

LONDON/KABUL (BNO NEWS) — A British soldier who was killed in southern Afghanistan on Sunday was likely the victim of a friendly fire incident, NATO and the UK Ministry of Defence said on Monday.

The British soldier from the 3rd Battalion The Parachu…