BUKITINGGI, INDONESIA (BNO NEWS) — Indonesia’s Mount Marapi volcano, located in the province of West Sumatra, on Friday morning erupted.

The 2,891-meter (9,485 feet) tall volcano, located near the cities and town of Bukittinggi, Padang Panjang and Ba…

FARAH CITY, AFGHANISTAN (BNO NEWS) — A group of militants on Thursday attacked a governor’s office in western Afghanistan, killing at least eleven people, officials said.

The attack was carried out at around 10:30 a.m. local time when the group of mi…

NAPLES, FLORIDA (BNO NEWS) — Donna Summer, who won five Grammy Awards and whose hits defined the disco era in the 1970s, died in southern Florida on Thursday morning, her family said. She was 63.

Known as ‘the Queen of Disco’, Summer received worldwi…

ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN (BNO NEWS) — Two training aircraft of the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) collided in mid-air over northwestern Pakistan on Thursday, killing everyone on board and a civilian on the ground, police said. Several others were injured.

The a…

SRINAGAR, INDIA (BNO NEWS) — A Japanese judge serving as part of the United Nations (UN)-backed Cambodia genocide tribunal resigned his position on Wednesday, and it will take effect in mid-July, the UN reported on Thursday.

Japanese judge Motoo Nogu…

SRINAGAR, INDIA (BNO NEWS) — An overloaded passenger bus overturned in India’s northern state of Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday, killing at least two people and injuring dozens more, local authorities said on Thursday.

The accident occurred when the …

ROGOTIN, CROATIA (BNO NEWS) — Two people were killed on Wednesday morning when a small plane crashed in the southern region of Croatia, police said on Thursday. The cause of the accident was not immediately known.

The accident occurred just before 8:…

KABUL, AFGHANISTAN (BNO NEWS) — Afghan and coalition forces killed nine suspected insurgents in southeastern Afghanistan on early Wednesday while they were observed planting an improvised explosive device (IED), officials said.

The NATO-led Internati…

WASHINGTON, D.C. (BNO NEWS) — U.S. President Barack Obama on Wednesday signed an executive order to freeze U.S.-based assets of anyone who directly or indirectly obstructs the implementation of the Washington-backed political transition in Yemen, the …

WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND (BNO NEWS) — The New Zealand government on Wednesday announced it will close its embassy in the Swedish capital of Stockholm as a result of budget cuts required among diplomatic posts in Europe.

New Zealand Foreign Affairs Min…