Mothers of the disappeared

She struggled for 20 years to trace her son, Nazir Ahmad. On September 1, 2009, Mugali Begum died without seeing her lone son. Her struggle began on September 1990 when Nazir, a school teacher,...

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Landslide Kills One, Leaves Five Missing in Central Java

A landslide triggered by heavy rains in Central Java killed one person and left five others missing, an emergency official said on Wednesday. “The landslide happened today, Wednesday morning in Plompong...

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Indian soldiers to be identified through their DNA

Formally announced in February 2012, the DNA profiling centre and data bank at Pune’s Armed Forces Medical College (AFMC) is finally set to take off by mid-2013. The centre which is to be one of...

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Powerful Solomon Islands earthquake triggers small tsunami, at least 5 dead

A tsunami in the south Pacific triggered by a magnitude 8.0 earthquake has devastated coastal villages and killed five people in the Solomon Islands, with concerns for hundreds more in outlying islands....

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Recovery of Great Hanshin survivors can give Tohoku victims strength

As we approached the 18th anniversary of the Great Hanshin Earthquake that took 6,434 lives, I met with some 50 bereaved family members. In the years since the Jan. 17, 1995 disaster, some had gone...

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33 dead as rain lashes Khyber Pakhunkhwa, Punjab

Widespread rain and snowfall claimed 33 lives, 25 of them in Khyber Pakhunkhwa, in the country on Tuesday. In addition to the deaths, 40 people were injured across KPK and the tribal areas. In...

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4 more Bangladeshis among 22 dead in UAE crash

The United Arab Emirates says four more Bangladeshi expatriate workers have been identified among the 22 killed in Monday’s road crash in that country. It was previously reported that there were...

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70 years later, Stalingrad still gives up its war dead

Every weekend, Denis Deryabkin and his friends go out armed with metal detectors and other tools of their trade. Yet it is not treasure they seek. Abandoned beneath the ground for decades lies something...

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