Turkey pays final respects to soldiers killed in helicopter crash

Politicians, military officers and thousands others paid their final respects to soldiers who were killed in a helicopter crash in the eastern province of Siirt,in an official ceremony held at Diyarbakır's...

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Burma earthquake leaves at least 12 feared dead

A 6.8-magnitude earthquake has struck northern Burma, destroying a bridge and a gold mine and leaving up to 12 people feared dead. The full extent of the damage unclear caused by the quake on Sunday...

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Ghana: Rescuers still work in collapsed building

Workers had congregated for morning prayers on the ground floor of the Melcom retail store in northern Accra Wednesday morning at around 9:15 when they heard a "boom, boom, boom" and the five-story...

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Missing bodies in Algerian bank plane crash found

The bodies of the two passengers missing after the crash of an Algerian military plane in southern France have been found in the wreckage, investigators announced Saturday. The body of the pilot...

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Identifying Jane/John Does

About 4:35 p.m. on March 1, 1992, a Nebraska trucker pulled into the Bitter Creek truck turnout on Interstate 80 to switch fuel tanks. Sipping coffee into the fading daylight hours, Barbara Leverton's...

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NSHR seeks urgent steps to dispose of bodies in morgues

Mufleh Al-Qahtani, chairman of the National Society for Human Rights (NSHR), has urged concerned authorities to take urgent steps to enact laws to avoid delays in repatriation or burial of dead bodies....

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Riyadh blast probe report on Monday

The panel formed by the government to investigate the causes of the fuel truck accident in eastern Riyadh early this month, which killed at least 22 people, will present its report to Interior Minister...

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Ghana mall rescuers discover six more bodies

Rescuers at the site of a collapsed mall in Ghana on Saturday said they had identified six more bodies under the rubble, as an Israeli team providing technical support pulled out. "The Israelis,...

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