Kenya: Baragoi Officer Buried in Teso

A victim of the Baragoi bandits attack was buried on Wednesday at Osuret village in Teso South after nearly two months. A DNA test released a few days before Christmas enabled the identification...

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Remains of Operation Condor''s Uruguayan Victim Delivered

The remains of Uruguayan fighter Alberto Mechoso, a victim of military dictatorships' Operation Condor, were delivered to his family today in the presence of President Jose Mujica. The urn with...

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Azazi’s kinsmen threaten to boycott burial

Some members of the Peretorugbene community in Bayelsa State, the hometown of the late former National Security Adviser, Gen. Andrew Azazi, have warned against burying him in Yenagoa, capital of the...

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100 bodies in Durango mass grave identified since January

Less than 30 percent of victims found in Durango's mass graves have been identified, according to Mexican news accounts. A news report posted on the website of El Siglo de Durango news daily, Durango...

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6 killed, 50 injured in Pakistan blast

At least six persons were killed and nearly 50 others injured when a powerful explosion ripped through a bus a short distance from the Pakistan Army chief’s official residence in the southern port...

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An-72 crash investigation well under way

Forensic experts have identified nine persons killed in the Antonov An-72 airplane crash occurred near the South Kazakhstan city of Shymkent. A spokesman of the Kazakh Prosecutor's General Office...

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Four dead as passenger jet crashes into highway after landing at Moscow Vnukovo Airport

A passenger jet crashed after making a hard landing at Moscow’s Vnukovo Airport. At least four people were killed and four critically injured, says the Interior Ministry. Officials believe the cause...

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Families of plane crash victims received 1 million tenge each, ask for burial rituals

Akim (Governor) of South-Kazakhstan oblast Askar Myrzakhmetov has transferred 1 million tenge ($6,700) to the families of each officer who died in the plane crash near Shymkent, Tengrinews.kz reports....

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Update: Scores feared dead after boat sinks off Bissau

Twenty-two people died and more than 75 were missing after an overloaded boat sank off the coast of Guinea-Bissau on Friday, hospital and port officials said. The narrow wooden boat was ferrying...

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