After wife and sons die in tsunami, finding solace in working with the dead

The first time Yuya Kawamura saw his newborn son, the baby was already dead. The infant’s brother, just 11 months old, was found in the arms of his mother. They, too, were dead, victims of the tsunami...

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Blaze kills 9 children at Koranic school in Senegal

A child’s sandal, a charred begging bowl, some fire-singed tin plates. Little else but cinders remained Monday of the house here where 60 children were crammed in by a Muslim holy man to study the...

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Mexico's disappeared

The full scale of Mexico's bloody drug war during the last six years is only now becoming apparent. Nearly 70,000 people died and more than 26,000 went missing between 2006 and 2012. A scathing new...

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Update: 7 killed in plane crash in Congo's east city of Goma

A plane crash in the center of the eastern city of Goma killed seven people and injured three, Congolese officials have now confirmed. The Ukrainian pilot of the plane for CAA managed to avoid buildings...

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Update: At least nine die in plane crash in Congolese town of Goma

At least nine people were killed on Monday when a twin-propeller plane crashed as it tried to land in bad weather in the eastern Congolese town of Goma, the government said. It was not immediately...

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Haunted by trauma, tsunami survivors in Japan turn to exorcists

The tsunami that engulfed northeastern Japan two years ago has left some survivors believing they are seeing ghosts. In a society wary of admitting to mental problems, many are turning to exorcists...

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Karachi blast: Postmortem of 44 bodies completed

Postmortem examinations of 44 bodies of Abbas Twon blast victims have been completed. Police surgeon Dr Jalil Qadir Memon told Geo News that postmortem of 32 bodies had been completed overnight...

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Bodies of Egyptian balloon crash victims identified, return to Japan

The bodies of the four Japanese tourists that were killed in the hot air balloon crash in Egypt last week returned to Japan on Monday, arriving at Narita International Airport. The four victims, two...

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