Last 'president-in-exile' reburial after misidentification

Smolensk disaster victim Ryszard Kaczorowski has been re-buried at Warsaw's Temple of Divine Providence after exhumation confirmed he was originally buried in the wrong grave. After a mass celebrated...

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18 die in fire caused by gun attack on bus

At least 18 people were killed and five others injured when a bus was attacked by gunmen on the outskirts of Khuzdar on Friday. The attack on the bus which was at a fuel station ignited petrol drums...

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Cyclone Nilam: Bodies of all missing sailors found

Chennai: The bodies of two sailors of the ship MT Pratibha Cauvery, which was grounded by cyclone Nilam, have been found near Chennai today. The two were part of the five crew members who went missing...

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Remains of Pinoy truck driver in Riyadh explosion may be repatriated next month

Philippine Ambassador to Saudi Arabia Ezzedin Tago said the remains of the Filipino truck driver who was killed in a fuel tanker explosion in Riyadh may be repatriated to the Philippines in four to...

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Death toll from India cyclone rises to 20

The death toll from a cyclone that hit southern India rose to 20 on Friday as people started to return to their homes after the storm died down. Cyclone Nilam, packing winds with speeds of up to...

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In disaster, Google and Twitter become tech first responders

The first wave of terror struck shortly before 3 p.m. on a Friday. "The ground, the thing that doesn't move, was moving," recalled Tomoko Sudo, who was at work when the magnitude-9.0 earthquake hit...

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Staten Is. has grim Sandy aftermath

Nineteen of the city's 40 deaths are attributed to Sandy were on Staten Island. Development on New York's Staten Island made the borough more vulnerable to the wrath of Hurricane Sandy, an educator...

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Cyclonic grief for sailors’ parents running pillar to post

If death is hard to come to terms with, identifying dead kin is probably harder. On Friday, families of the crew of beleaguered ship MT Pratibha Cauvery, rushed from one government hospital mortuary...

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