Up to 70 asylum seekers feared dead after boat sank off Christmas Island

The bodies of nine asylum seekers have been found near Christmas Island, while another 60 are missing feared dead, after a vessel vanished last week. During a search and rescue operation that will...

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No survivors found in Russian helicopter crash

All those on board the MI-8 helicopter that crashed in a mountainous region of far-eastern Russia are now known to have died, Russian officials said on Saturday. “The bodies of all five who died...

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Polish institute says has found Stalin-era mass grave

Poland's Institute of National Remembrance (IPN) says it has found a mass grave containing the bodies of about 83 people thought to have been victims of a Stalin-era campaign of terror. IPN said...

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Digging for the IRA Disappeared: Moors Murders police officer searching peat bog for victims

On a remote hillside, a quarter of a mile inside the Irish Republic, diggers are scraping at peat in pouring rain. Three yellow machines, bright against the dark bog. There is no birdsong. The...

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