JERUSALEM, ISRAEL (BNO NEW) — Israeli security forces in an overnight operation arrested a member of the Palestinian Hamas movement in the West Bank city of Hebron, local media reported Wednesday.

Nayef Rajoub, 52, Palestinian Minister for Religious…

BARCELONA, SPAIN (BNO NEW) —Eight men suspected of being linked with radical Islamic cells in Pakistan, as well as participating in the 2008 Mumbai attacks that killed 166 people, were arrested by Spanish authorities, officials said Wednesday.

Accor…

CAIRO, EGYPT (BNO NEWS) — Al-Wadf and the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt’s opposition parties, on Wednesday withdrew from the second round of parliamentary elections after the controversial first round results that have been condemned worldwide.

According…

CARACAS, VENEZUELA (BNO NEW) — The Sudan Troika (United States, United Kingdom, and Norway) on the Southern Sudan Referendum on Wednesday applauded the ongoing registration process that leads toward the peace agreement.

The Troika called the registr…

NUWARA ELIYA, SRI LANKA (BNO NEWS) — Sixteen people were injured on Wednesday afternoon when a suicide bomber attacked a police station in central Sri Lanka, local media reported.

The blast happened at the main police station in Nuwara Eliya where a …

LYON, FRANCE (BNO NEWS) — Interpol on Wednesday issued a ‘red notice’ for Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks, pursuant to a provisional arrest request in Sweden over rape and sexual molestation charges.

An Interpol’s red notice is not an intern…

NEW YORK (BNO NEWS) — Colombian drug lord Francisco Gonzalez Uribe on Tuesday was sentenced to 30 years in prison for importing and distributing cocaine and heroin into U.S. territory, U.S. prosecutors said.

Gonzalez, 44, pleaded guilty to one count …

JERUSALEM (BNO NEWS) — Israel Security Agency Shin Bet on Tuesday arrested three Palestinian men suspected of perpetrating a shooting attack against two Israelis in the West Bank city of Hebron on September 26.

The three Palestinians belong to the Ab…

WASHINGTON D.C. (BNO NEWS) — The White House on Tuesday said it is disappointed with the results of Egypt’s parliamentary elections that are marred with fraud allegations.

According to National Security Council (NSC) spokesman Mike Hammer, the Obama …