Côte d’Ivoire: Even nature can’t disguise the past

Nature is growing back, making it look like nothing ever happened here.” Those were the sad words of a tenacious local human rights defender as we drove past the ruins of the Nahibly displaced persons...

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Body of last missing worker found in Leyte landslide site

Retrieval teams finally ended yesterday their long hours of finding bodies of workers buried in a landslide that struck the geothermal complex of the Energy Development Corp. (EDC) here last week....

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Medical Examiner Posting Online Pictures Of Unidentified Bodies

The Chicago area medical examiner’s office is posting photos of the dead on its website in hopes of identifying them. The medical examiner currently has 32 unidentified bodies waiting for someone...

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INTERPOL's meeting recommends improvements to FASTID

Participants from 13 member countries of the International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL) recommended expanding the use of the organisation's bulletins and improving the FAST and the efficient...

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Coach crash in Cam Ranh leaves 11 dead

Eleven passengers died and more than 50 others were injured in a head-on collision between two buses in Cam Ranh City, central Khanh Hoa Province early this morning. The accident occurred at 12:40...

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15 killed after vehicle falls into gorge in Indian-controlled Kashmir

At least 15 people including four children were killed and 22 others injured Friday after a vehicle carrying them skidded off the road and fell into a gorge in Indian-controlled Kashmir, police said....

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Two sailors of the USS Monitor identified after 150 years

The remains of two sailors who died more than 150 years ago when their Civil War-era ironclad ship, the USS Monitor, sank will be buried with full military honors Friday at Arlington National Cemetery...

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Canberra firefighter relives memories of the Japanese tsunami and earthquake

Oh my god. That was Canberra firefighter Bernie Evans's first reaction to the devastation of the Japanese earthquake when he got off the bus in the middle of the disaster zone. ''I'd never seen anything...

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3 bodies recovered in quake areas

The bodies of three people who appear to have died in the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami were recovered in Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima prefectures in the period from September to February, the National...

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At Arizona’s border morgue, bodies keep coming despite drop in illegal traffic

The body of Ildefonso Martinez arrived on a Friday night last April as John Doe, Case No. 12-01000. He wore black Nike shoes, a Perry Ellis belt, jeans with a 34-inch waist, a Casio watch. For medical...

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