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HUNTSVILLE, Texas (BNO NEWS) — A Texas man was executed on late Wednesday for murdering his estranged wife and her new boyfriend in the Houston area in September 2001, officials said. He is the seventh person to be executed in the United States so far…
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NEW YORK (BNO NEWS) — A United Nations independent expert on Tuesday said an international public health disaster persists as undernourishment and overweight problems have spawned from the globalization of western lifestyles.
UN Special Rapporteur on…
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MONTREAL, Canada (BNO NEWS) — Passenger safety improved significantly last year as the numbers of accidents and fatalities reached the lowest in aviation history, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) said on Tuesday. It surpasses the pre…
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BERKELEY, California (BNO NEWS) — Ralph McQuarrie, the Academy Award-winning conceptual designer and illustrator who was instrumental in defining the look of ‘Star Wars’ icons, died at his home in California on Saturday. He was 82.
A statement posted…
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SULAYMANIYAH, Iraq (BNO NEWS) — An American teacher who worked at a Christian school in northern Iraq was shot dead by a teacher on Thursday, according to media reports on Friday. The student then killed himself.
Jeremiah Small, of Cosmopolis, Grays …
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (BNO NEWS) — Two American service members were shot dead Thursday by two Afghan gunmen, at least one of them an Afghan National Army (ANA) soldier, at a joint base in southern Afghanistan, officials said. The attackers were also …
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LOS ANGELES, California (BNO NEWS) — Conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart, whose websites targeted Democratic politicians and were influential in the rise of the Tea Party, died unexpectedly in Los Angeles on Thursday. He was 43.
Breitbart was walki…
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GREENBELT, Maryland (BNO NEWS) — The oldest and thickest Arctic sea ice is disappearing at a faster rate than the younger and thinner ice at the edges of the Arctic Ocean’s floating ice cap, according to a new study revealed by NASA on Thursday.
The …
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INDIANTOWN, Florida (BNO NEWS) — Davy Jones, the lead singer of the popular American pop rock group ‘The Monkees’, died in Florida on Wednesday as a result of a suspected heart attack, local officials said. He was 66.
Rhonda Irons, a spokeswoman for …
