Human rights group: Thousands of N. Korean prisoners 'disappeared' from gulag

Tens of thousands of North Korean prisoners have “disappeared” from an enormous gulag situated in a region where there were known food shortages, prompting fears that they may have starved to death...

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70 years ago: The deadliest disaster in Houston's history, the Gulf Hotel Fire

On the night of September 7, 1943 a fire broke out in a delapidated rooming house called the Gulf Hotel, located in Houston, Texas and inhabited by at least 185 registered persons and transients. ...

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The Special Board of Marine Inquiry (SBMI) wraps up Cebu ferry investigation, temporary burial of unidentified requested

br> Three weeks after the tragic sea accident in Lauis Ledge, the Special Board of Marine Inquiry (SBMI) has wrapped up its investigation. As of yesterday the total casualties of the ship collision...

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Uttarakhand tragedy: Over 160 bodies found in Kedar valley in four days

Police teams in flood-hit Uttarakhand have found 71 more bodies in the higher reaches of the Kedar valley which were earlier inaccessible due to bad weather. Over 160 bodies have been found from...

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Bosnia discovers one of the largest mass graves in the past 10 years

In carrying out the exhumation ordered by the Prosecutor's Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina, a large mass grave with the remains of a large number of victims of the genocide near Prijedor (northwestern...

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