Paraguay investigators try to ID body of presidential hopeful Lino Oviedo after chopper crash

The bodies of Paraguayan presidential candidate Lino Oviedo and two other people killed in a helicopter crash over the weekend are so mutilated that they can’t be reconstructed and it will take longer...

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In the End, Numbers Become Names Again

For a few minutes on Friday, they became people again: Zahra Abdullah, formerly victim No. 7; her son Hadi, victim No. 10; and her daughter Myrna, No. 9. For days they were among the nameless, corpses...

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Commemorative service at mass grave memorial, Mrkonjic Grad

The residents of Mrkonjic Grad today celebrate Municipality Day, which was established in memory of February 4, 1996, when Mrkonjic Grad residents returned to their homes after five months of exile....

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Turkey: New Finds Reignite Search for Kurdish Mass Graves

For the people living in the predominately-Kurdish southeast region of Turkey, the fact that their region is dotted with the mass graves of victims of the political violence that haunted the area...

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Day the river of life brought death

January 14, 2003, will always be remembered by the Dutt Family of Korotari outside Labasa Town. The day brings memories of nine missing family members who died at the height of Tropical Cyclone...

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Crash kills 16 Bangladeshis in Abu Dhabi

At least 16 Bangladeshis died in a road crash that claimed 22 lives and injured 25 others at Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates yesterday, police and Bangladesh embassy officials in the UAE said....

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California bus crash leaves eight dead

A tour bus has collided with a pickup truck on a rural mountain highway in southern California, killing eight people and injuring dozens of others, authorities have said. The accident happened at...

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Police spies stole identities of dead children

Britain's largest police force stole the identities of an estimated 80 dead children and issued fake passports in their names for use by undercover police officers. The Metropolitan police secretly...

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Another Baldia factory fire victim identified through DNA test

Another victim of the Baldia factory fire, whose body was lying in Edhi’s cold storage, was identified on Monday through DNA test. According to sources, one more identified body was taken by the family...

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Three more bodies found at Mexico Pemex blast site, toll reaches 36

Mexican rescue workers found three more bodies over the weekend amid the rubble of a deadly blast that tore through state oil firm Pemex's main office complex, the government said, as search efforts...

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