‘A rollercoaster that never ends’ — new hope for Pike River mine victims’ families although others do not welcome plan

A Geraldine couple who lost their son in the Pike River coalmine disaster want his remains left where they are, despite the Government announcing yesterday it will fund a plan to re-enter and explore...

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'Deportees,' 28 anonymous Mexican farmworkers killed in 1948 plane crash, finally named at memorial

A fiery plane crash here decades ago that killed 32 people, most of them unidentified Mexican farmworkers, inspired a protest song by Woody Guthrie that has been performed by Bruce Springsteen, Joan...

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Cebu ferry disaster: 57 bodies claimed

A total of 57 bodies of fatalities in the sinking of MV St. Thomas Aquinas have already been released to their families while 47 bodies remained unidentified as of yesterday, a funeral parlor staff...

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Traumatic past haunts Bosnian Croat village

A marble monument dominates the small hill overlooking Krizancevo Selo, a Croat village near the town of Vitez in central Bosnia. The memorial bears the names of more than 100 villagers – both soldiers...

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Historians research Japanese Pearl Harbor dead

Historians hope to solve one of the remaining mysteries of the Pearl Harbor attack and discover what happened to 29 Japanese airmen and four sailors missing in action. Most are believed to have...

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