Japan raises specter of more devastating quake

The Nankai Trough extends for hundred of kilometers parallel with the Japanese coast, off heavily populated areas south of Tokyo. A new report has issued a chilling warning of what a major quake in...

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Srebrenica: 18 years after the genocide

50 percent of more than 8,000 victims of the Srebrenica Genocide have been identified up to now and 18 years still need to identify all the victims, said mayor of Srebrenica, Camil Durakovic, APA’s...

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Ten children still missing after Mae Surin refugee camp fire

About 10 children are still missing in the aftermath of the devastating inferno at Mae Surin refugee camp which has left 37 dead, activists say. Ben Mendoza, director of the Catholic Office for...

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Google Street View sends cameras into Namie, an abandoned town in Fukushima where once 21,000 people lived

It is a nuclear-era Mary Celeste, a town left virtually untouched since its 21,000 residents fled two years ago. Rubble and roof tiles still litter the streets from the huge earthquake that dislodged...

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At least 24 dead in Peru bus crash

At least 24 people, most of them mine workers, were killed Wednesday when their bus plunged into a ravine in southern Peru, local police said. Another 18 people were injured, according to a provisional...

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