Migrant deaths highlight rural tension in Italy

Even dead migrant workers are exploitable. Or so it would seem from the hardly edifying scenes that followed the deaths last Saturday of six Romanian farm workers killed in a horrific train accident...

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9 Dead, 7 missing after fishing boat sinks off northeast China

Nine people have died and seven remain missing after a fishing boat sank off the coast of the northeastern Chinese seaport of Dalian, maritime authorities said. The boat with 17 people on board sank...

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15 killed as van falls into canal in S. Pakistan

At least 15 people were killed and eight others went missing on Wednesday evening when a passenger van fell into a canal in Pakistan’s southern province of Sindh, local media reported. According to...

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52 unclaimed fire victims buried after DNA tests

No-one showed up over the past two days to claim them. Their bodies charred beyond recognition. And so, unidentified bodies of 53 workers who had died from the fire at Tazreeen Fashions Ltd were buried...

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Decomposing bodies of five men found in Korean-marked boat off Japan’s coast

Police revealed Wednesday that a boat with Korean (Hangul) language writing on the side washed ashore on Sado Island with five rotting bodies inside. The island is located just off Niigata Prefecture...

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Unclaimed bodies buried

There was none to claim them. Fifty-three unidentified bodies from the fire at Tazreeen Fashions Ltd were buried at the Jurain Graveyard in the capital on Tuesday afternoon after two days of wait...

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