Give death certificate to blast victim's kin: Court

The Delhi High Court Friday directed a civic agency to issue death certificates to the kin of three men killed in a 2005 bomb blast to facilitate payment of compensation to them. The court's direction...

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Update: 23 bodies recovered, 32 still missing in Somalia boat capsize

Fifty-five Somalis and Ethiopians have drowned or are missing after their boat capsized off Somalia in the worst such disaster in the area in almost two years, the United Nations says. The UN refugee...

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Fewer aviation accidents in 2012

In 2012, a total of 407 people lost their lives in aircraft accidents worldwide. That is considerably less than the annual average of 820 deaths over the past 10 years, according to preliminary data...

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Update: Flash floods kill 25 in Sri Lanka, 36 still missing

Flash floods have killed at least 25 people in Sri Lanka and left more than a quarter of a million marooned in their homes, disaster officials say. Heavy rains, which have battered the island for...

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Five killed in China as bus falls into ravine

At least five people were killed and 27 injured after a bus fell into a ravine in China's Sichuan province Thursday, authorities said. The accident occurred in the morning after a bus broke through...

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Sudan bus collision kills 33

Thirty-three people were killed and 24 injured when two inter-city buses collided in Sudan late Wednesday, in one of the country's worst road accidents in years, police said. The crash between a...

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39 more bodies identified from DNA sampling

Thirty-nine of the 53 workers killed Tazreen Fashions fire and buried unnamed could be identified from DNA sampling of their relatives. Fourteen of the victims were yet to be identified. One hundred...

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Update: Sri Lanka mass grave unearths ghosts from troubled past

A mass grave unearthed in Sri Lanka has stirred memories of the country's bloody insurgencies and sparked calls for an official inquiry in the island nation that has drawn global scrutiny for its chequered...

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Identifying War Victim's Remains

The bones of a young man in his twenties rest on a metal table in the Bosnian town of Tuzla. He has no name, but the International Commission on Missing Persons hopes to give him one soon. The...

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Update: 18 dead, 37 missing after boat capsizes in Puntland waters

The bodies of 18 people who drowned when their boat capsized were recovered at Lug Samatar channel on the outskirts of Bosaso and brought to Bosaso General Hospital on Tuesday (December 18th), officials...

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Phuket and The Tsunami: It's Not Impossible to Get The Facts Straight

The Impossible' opens in US movie theatres on Friday, and it will spark renewed interest in the Indian Ocean tsunami and especially what happened to holidaymakers in Thailand. Almost eight years...

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One Hundred Thousand Tamils Missing After Sri Lanka War

World Bank population data from Sri Lanka indicates up to a hundred thousand Tamils are unaccounted for after the final war against the Tamil Tiger rebels in 2009, raising questions about whether they...

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Five missing children feared drowned

Five children are feared dead in River Yala, Siaya County after a canoe they were using to cross the water mass capsized. A local, aged 34, who attempted to rescue the children is also missing. Richard...

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