Nine more bodies recovered from Teknaf shore, death toll from boat capsize rises to 31.

Police recovered the bodies of nine children from Teknaf shore on Friday, raising the death toll from the boat capsize in Bay to 31. The bodies were retrieved in Dargah Chhara and Habir Chhara areas...

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Remains thought to be lost Diggers

A 68-YEAR wartime mystery may have been solved with the discovery of human remains on a remote island off the coast of Papua New Guinea. Seven elite Australian soldiers from the top-secret `Z' Special...

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Japan: Gov't to standardize electronic dental record formats for use in disasters

The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare is poised to standardize the formats of electronic dental records for use in body identification in case of major disasters, it has been learned. The move...

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Three mass graves with 1,000 corpses found in Iraq

Iraqi officials have found three mass graves containing the bodies of about 1,000 people thought to have been executed by US soldiers during their occupation of the country. The graves were uncovered...

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At least 14 killed as cyclone hits Bangladesh

Cyclone Mahasen has hit the coast of Bangladesh, forcing the evacuation of one million people and killing 14. But authorities breathed a sigh of relief after Mahasen, with winds of 100 kilometres...

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Storms hit southern China, 33 killed and 12 missing

Thirty-three people have been killed and 12 others are reported missing in the latest round of rain and hailstorms that have swept southern China. Heavy rain has hit 10 provinces in southern China,...

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7 crew missing after ship collisions on Yangtze River

Collisions involving three vessels in the section of the Yangtze River in east China's Wuhu City, Anhui Province, early Friday morning, left seven people missing. Twenty crew members on board the...

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Kosovo: identification of mass grave bodies is complicated

Alan Robinson and Arsim Gërxhaliu explained that the bodies that have not been identified at the Department of Forensic Medicine are the result of incorrectly burial by the family. 2 thousand burials...

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Tawerghans say mass grave bodies mis-identified, demand neutral investigation

Exhumed bodies found in a mass grave discovered earlier this week are not civilians from Misrata but are people from Tawergha, the town’s local council in exile has said, demanding that a neutral committee...

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19 Myanmar boat casualties recovered

Nineteen bodies recovered Thursday off Bangladesh in the Bay of Bengal were believed to be Myanmar nationals killed in a boat capsizing before Cyclone Mahasen hit the region, officials said. The...

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