Florida to exhume bodies buried at former boys school

This weekend, Florida will begin digging into its tragic past as anthropologists start unearthing what they believe are the remains of dozens of children buried on the grounds of a former reform school....

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ICMP: Missing persons issue deserves attention of whole world

The Sarajevo-based International Commission on Missing Persons (ICMP) issued a statement on Friday to mark August 30, the International Day of the Disappeared, saying that the issue of missing persons...

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Ecuador’s missing persons

The type of missing person announcement you see here can be found at practically any bus stop or busy street in Quito. Friends from Cuba often ask me what has struck me the most about Ecuador so far....

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3D maps created in real time could aid disaster search and rescue

Highly detailed 3D maps of indoor and outdoor environments can now been created in real time with no drift thanks to a new mapping algorithm. The maps could be created in the immediate aftermath of...

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The downing of Flight 007: 30 years later, a Cold War tragedy still seems surreal

The idea that Soviet fighter jets would shoot down a Boeing 747 airliner seems shockingly unbelievable. Two-hundred sixty-nine innocent people died in a largely forgotten Cold War attack that took...

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Ombudsman calls for Agency to identify disappeared during terrorism years

Peru’s ombudsman has called for the government to create an agency responsible for finding those who were reported missing during the country’s internal conflict in the 1980s and 1990s, state news...

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