China's child abductions

Thousands of Chinese children kidnapped by traffickers every year are never found because of corruption, police apathy and the complicated nature of the crime, according to a filmmaker who has made...

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Investigators looking for mass grave in Medvedja

Representatives of missing persons commissions from Belgrade and Pristina started investigating the grounds in the village of Svirce. The village is the suspected location of a mass grave containing...

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2 dead, 6 missing after China colliery blast

Two miners have been confirmed dead, and six others remain trapped on Tuesday after a gas blast hit an illegal coal mine in Southwest China's Yunnan Province on Monday, rescuers said. They pulled...

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9 bodies recovered after deadly Vietnam boat accident

Rescuers have recovered the bodies of three women and six men who died after a motorboat capsized in rough conditions off the Ho Chi Minh City coast last Friday. Twenty one others who were rescued...

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Moscow’s killing fields: inside a Stalinist execution site

Across from the sprawling Gazprom offices just south of Moscow, there is a forest. It is quiet, full of mushrooms and dead leaves. The only people usually there are a pair of monks, who live by a church...

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After 15-year search, mom finds son in pauper's grave

In a graveyard filled with those who died with no money and sometimes no family, he died with even less. His gravestone simply read, "John (19) Doe." He was the 19th unidentified man buried in...

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Survivors of 1945 sinking of the USS Indianapolis describe terrifying explosions and shark attacks during worst sea disaster in U.S. Naval history

More than a dozen men who survived the worst sea disaster in U.S. naval history - the World War II sinking of the USS Indianapolis - have gathered in the cruiser's namesake city for the final large-scale...

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Saptakoshi boat capsize: 3 dead, 20 missing

Around 20 passengers have gone missing after a boat carrying 90 people onboard capsized in the Saptakoshi River at Chatara of Sunsari district on Monday afternoon. Three female bodies have been...

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