Rosario explosion: rescue works continue, 11 people still missing

Rescue teams continue with rubble removal works coming closer to the site of the explosion, Rosario city Mayor Mónica Fein confirmed two-days after disaster struck at the Santa Fe province locality...

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Vietnam war victims missing for 40 years found alive in jungle, central Vietnam

An 82-year-old man and his 41-year-old son have been found living in a forest in central Vietnam after they went missing during the country's war with the US, an official says. The older man could...

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Florida: Exhumations approved at Reform School where boys disappeared

The Florida Cabinet gave the go-ahead Tuesday for dozens of unmarked graves, buried deep in the woods near a now-defunct reform school, to be exhumed, in an attempt to return the bodies to their families....

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European Commission - Directorate-General for Ente : Results of EU research project could help align international standards for the identification of missing persons and victims of large-scale disasters

Finding and identifying victims after a natural disaster is not just a matter of deploying sophisticated technology such as detection devices. It also depends on quickly matching up circumstantial...

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DNA tests on Neruda remains to be done out of Chile

Chilean justice ordered that DNA tests on the remains of poet Pablo Neruda, as part of the probe to know the causes of his death, be carried out abroad. This was ordered by judge Mario Carroza,...

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People of Guinsaugon seek record of existence 7 years after devastating landslide

After half of a mountain collapsed and buried the entire village in 2006, the government also virtually erased from its records the community that once thrived in Guinsaugon, a farming area. For...

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Serbia and Kosovo search for mass grave together

Belgrade and Pristina plan to hold a joint investigation at the site of a suspected mass grave from the 1999 Kosovo war near the south Serbian town of Medvedja. Missing persons commissions from...

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21 bodies cremated from tonnes of debris lying in Kedarnath

Twenty-one bodies were extricated on Wednesday from tonnes of debris lying in Kedarnath and consigned to flames after necessary rituals. This takes the number of bodies disposed of at the Himalayan...

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12 die in building explosion in Argentina, dozen missing

Leaking gas was likely to blame for an explosion that killed at least 12 people, injured 60 more and brought down part of a building in Argentina on Tuesday, state media reported Wednesday. A man...

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