Body of man recovered from sunken ship

OKHOTSK, Russia - A rescue team recovered the body of the crewmember found in a sunken Russian vessel in the Sea of Okhotsk Friday, officials said. No documents were found on the body, and he has...

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Miyagi, Iwate police scale down searches for missing people

Iwate and Miyagi prefectural police have scaled down their search operations for the more than 2,500 people still missing from the March 11, 2011, tsunami. The Iwate police stopped dispatching officers...

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Deadly Indonesian flooding kills 13

The number of people killed after days of torrential rain triggered a landslide and flash floods on Indonesia's Sulawesi island has climbed to 13 with four others missing, police and disaster officials...

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Floods claim as many as 16 lives in Haitian city

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Nov 9, 2012 (AFP) - Flood waters inundated impoverished areas of Cap Haitien, Haiti's second largest city, killing as many as 16 people, including three children, city officials said...

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Melcom Disaster: Death toll rises to 18

The death toll of the Melcom disaster has now risen to 18 following the discovery of nine more bodies on Thursday evening. One of the victims is a pregnant woman. The discovery follows the intensification...

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Israeli Sophisticated Gadgets save three Bodies from Melcom

A Deputy Minister for Information, Samuel Okudjeto Ablakwa, has confirmed to Gold News that the eight member rescue team from Israel has been able to save three bodies from the wreckage of the collapsed...

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EXHUMATIONS OF THE REMAINS OF VICTIMS KILLED IN THE PAST WAR ARE BEING CARRIED OUT IN THE MUNICIPALITIES OF BIHAĆ AND DRVAR

Exhumations are being carried out under the supervision of an Investigator of the Prosecutor's Office of BiH at the locations of Ševina jama in Bihać municipality and Šajnovac in Drvar municipality....

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Campaign for database of missing persons

A nationwide campaign is being launched today to set up a national database of missing persons and to establish the identity of body parts retrieved off west and south east coasts. Known as the "forgotten...

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Mexico: PGR Debuts “super morgue” to identify dead bodies

In the final stretch of his term and amid the bloody war against organized crime that has so far left more than 60,000 dead, many of them unidentified the head of the Attorney General’s Office (PGR),...

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The International Commission on Missing Persons

Last December, the Libyan National Transitional Council decided it was about time to tackle the thorny problem of dealing with the thousands of persons who had gone missing in the country over the...

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Hope fades after Guatemala earthquake

There is little chance of finding anyone else alive under the rubble, Guatemalan officials say. At a 7.4 magnitude, Wednesday's earthquake was the strongest quake to hit the country in more than...

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Bodies of family found amid Guatemala ruins's ruins

The 10 members of the Vasquez family were found together under the rubble of the rock quarry that had been their livelihood, some in a desperate final embrace, others clinging to the faintest of dying...

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Guatemala quake toll rises as search for survivors continues

Rescue workers today carted out dead bodies found under rubble in the aftermath of Guatemala's most powerful earthquake in decades, while others cleared wrecked cars and collapsed buildings as they...

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Information cells set up to handle complaints from families of victims

Filling a vacuum left by the government and law enforcement agencies, labour rights organisations have now set up information points for victims of the Baldia factory fire incident. Despite the passage...

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