(SomaliNet) Officials said weeks of rain have caused the deaths of nearly 50 people and left more than 20 missing in Honduras and killed dozens more in Costa Rica, Guatemala, Nicaragua and the southern Mexican state of Chiapas.
Authorities said on Sunday that most of the victims were buried in la
(SomaliNet) Lawyers for the three Islamists facing execution for the Bali bombings which killed 202 people filed a desperate last-minute appeal on Monday to save them from the firing squad.
However, prosecutors said the appeal was invalid as the bombers - Amrozi, 47, his brother Mukhlas, 48, and
(SomaliNet) Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama has won in the two US towns that traditionally open US election voting.
Becoming the first Democrat to win there since 1968, Obama won 15 votes to his Republican rival John McCain's six in Dixville Notch, New Hampshire
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(SomaliNet) Police and hospital officials said bombs exploded at a bus station and a small market in Baghdad, killing 11 people and wounding 26 others Tuesday.
According to authorities, a bomb hidden under a car exploded at a bus depot in the predominantly Shiite neighborhood of Mashtal on the ca
(SomaliNet) According to reports, dozens of people have been injured in three bomb attacks in southern Thailand.
Preliminary reports mention more than 70 people injured and one person killed, but the accuracy of these reports is not clear, as the authorities have cut off all telephone connection
(SomaliNet) An international aid agency said on Monday that 60 corpses of would-be refugees from Somalia and Ethiopia were found on a beach in Yemen at the weekend after smugglers forced many of them overboard.
The latest victims on the notoriously perilous smuggling route had came across the Gu
(SomaliNet) In an election that may be heroic in America’s history, presidential elections are being held in the United States Tuesday.
Media reports say polling stations in many eastern states have opened their doors, and over the coming hours, voters in the centre and west of the country wil
(SomaliNet) Democratic candidate, Barack Obama will be the 44th president of the United States of America.
The election victory of the Illinois senator for the country's highest office was confirmed with the publication of the predicted results from the vote in the state of California, where po
(SomaliNet) Some 20 people are feared dead after a bus burst into flames on a motorway near the northern city of Hannover on Tuesday evening, German transport police said.
According to police, around 10 people managed to escape from the vehicle, which was heading towards the capital Berlin. The c
(SomaliNet) In a scandal concerning implicating the military in the deaths of 11 youths from a slum in Colombian capital Bogotá, the commander of the Colombian army has resigned.
After the Colombian government admitted that the young men had been killed by members of the armed forces General Ma
