World Trade Center 9/11 construction debris to be sifted for human remains starting Monday

The city has collected about 60 dump truck loads of debris from construction areas around the World Trade Center site over the past two and a half years that will be sifted for fragments of 9/11 victims'...

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Officials in Lanzhou say bodies floating in river not affecting water quality

Lanzhou officials say the quality of local water is actually improving – despite more than 100 bodies being discovered in the Yellow River each year. Between 2008 and 2012 police extracted 417 bodies...

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Landslide buries 83 in Tibet mine area

Eighty-three workers were buried after a large-scale landslide hit a mining area in Tibet on Friday, China's state media reported. A coal mine near the city of Kaili in China's Guizhou province...

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Ivory Coast to exhume bodies from post-election conflict

Ivory Coast officials say exhumations of mass graves dating back to the country’s 2010-11 post-election violence will begin next week. Both the government and rights workers say this process could...

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9 killed, 12 hurt in Mewat bus accident

Nine persons, including three women and two children were killed and 12 were critically injured in a road accident in Mewat on Thursday afternoon when a dumper and private bus collided on Delhi-Alwar...

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Deaths reported in Tanzania building collapse

At least 15 people have been killed in Tanzania's commercial capital, Dar es Salaam, when a building under construction collapsed, a police officer has said. Witnesses at the site, where some people...

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