Indian Air Force helicopter crashes, eight bodies found

An Indian Air Force (IAF) helicopter on a rescue mission crashed in Uttarakhand this evening. Government sources say 19 people were on board and there are no survivors. But the Air Force said eight...

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Inquest starts into Christmas Island asylum tragedy

A Coroner for Western Australia will today begin an inquest into the deaths of more than 100 asylum seekers on a boat which sank north of Christmas Island last year. Coroner Alastair Hope will preside...

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India floods: Bad weather delays rescue and mass cremations

Bad weather has halted rescue operations in flood-hit northern India and forced authorities to delay mass funerals for those killed. Air force officials said they were unable to fly helicopters to...

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Deadly Ottawa train crash 100 years later

The Winnipeg Express chugged out of Montreal at 9:45 a.m. ET on June 25, 1913, hauling 10 cars. It was shaping up to be a warm, early-summer day and a pleasant trip west. Engineer Albert Chapman...

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Bodies of 130,000 fallen Korean War servicemen still missing

Eighty-six-year-old Kim Oh-joon still remembers the day he was told the tragic news that his brother had been killed in battle during the Korean War. He still hopes that one day the remains of his...

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Gold mine collapse kills 37 in Central African Republic

At least 37 people have been killed and many more injured in a mine collapse in the south of the Central African Republic. The president's office announced on Monday that the accident occurred on...

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Victims’ jewellery missing, shrine donation boxes empty

As the unprecedented rains turned Kedarnath into a ghost town with bodies strewn all over, a ‘gold rush’ in the holy town is sending shivers down the spine. Cash and gold offerings at the shrine...

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Emotional protest in Bangladesh two months after disaster

Hundreds of Bangladeshi garment workers and survivors of the Rana Plaza building collapse staged an emotional protest yesterday, on the two-month anniversary of the country’s worst industrial disaster....

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Uttarakhand: As epidemic threat looms, seers clear mass funeral at Kedarnath

With most stranded pilgrims and locals having been evacuated from the Kedarnath-Gaurikund axis, the next big challenge confronting the authorities is the disposal of hundreds of corpses that are littered...

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Uttar Pradesh forms special cell to trace its missing people in Uttarakhand

Amidst reports of 11 more bodies of those swept away by the flash floods in Uttarakhand recovered from rivers in UP, the state government on Monday constituted a special cell to trace UP pilgrims and...

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