KANDAHAR (BNO NEWS) — Casualties are feared after a large explosion hit a mosque in Kandahar where the funeral of Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s brother was underway, police said.

The explosion happened around noon local time, killing and injuring a…

MUMBAI (BNO NEWS) — Three bomb blasts in rapid succession hit three crowded locations in India’s financial capital of Mumbai on Wednesday evening, officials said, killing at least eight people and injuring dozens more.

The first explosion happened at…

MUMBAI (BNO NEWS) — Three bomb blasts in rapid succession hit three crowded locations in India’s financial capital of Mumbai on Wednesday evening, officials said, killing at least eight people and injuring dozens more.

The first explosion happened at…

MUMBAI (BNO NEWS) — A series of at least three explosions hit three separate locations in India’s financial capital of Mumbai on Wednesday evening, local television stations reported, causing an unknown number of casualties.

The explosions hit three…

RECIFE, BRAZIL (BNO NEWS) — A regional jet flying for Brazilian airline Noar Linhas Aereas crashed in northeastern Brazil on Wednesday morning, officials said, killing all 16 people on board.

The accident happened after the Let L-410 Turbolet aircraf…

DEMOPOLIS, ALABAMA (BNO NEWS) — Five people have been killed and two others are injured after a small plane crashed in Alabama, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said on Sunday evening.

The accident happened on Saturday evening near the …

JUBA (BNO NEWS) — South Sudan officially became the world’s newest nation on Saturday morning as residents celebrated throughout the new country. Citizens of South Sudan voted earlier this year to break away from Sudan, which recognized South Sudan’s …

KISANGANI (BNO NEWS) — A Hewa Bora Airways passenger plane carrying more than 100 people crashed in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Friday afternoon, the airline said, but few details were immediately available.

The large plane belonging to Congo…

MUAR, MALAYSIA (BNO NEWS) — An unidentified man carrying a machete and a hammer has taken some 30 children and teachers hostage at a kindergarten in Malaysia, local media reported on Thursday.

The state-run Bernama news agency said the hostage crisis…