Lampedusa boat disaster: Aerial search mounted

The Italian coastguard is using planes and helicopters to spot migrants' bodies around the boat which sank off the island of Lampedusa on Thursday. Bad weather is hampering divers. So far, 111 bodies...

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Bus plunges down hillside outside Mexico City, killing 14

At least 14 people were killed and 20 others injured when a bus fell into a ravine in Mexico State, south-central Mexico on Friday, local authority said, APA reports quoting Xinhua. The accident...

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Seven days, eight disasters, 69 dead, 33 rescued: Indian National disaster response force

In the past one week, eight states have seen disasters ranging from floods to building collapses where personnel of National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) have rescued 33 people and recovered 69 dead...

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Rough seas complicate search for boat capsize survivors

Choppy waters are complicating the search for dozens of African migrants who are missing and believed dead after their boat sank off the Italian island of Lampedusa. Authorities have recovered...

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Cianjur migrant boat: Search for missing boat people ends

The National Police and relevant authorities have called off their search-and-rescue operation, which was launched last week following the sinking of a boat packed with migrants in waters off Cianjur,...

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Ontario lab joins search to identify Lac-Megantic's still-missing

All that was left of Marie-France Boulet’s home was delivered to her family in a small Ziploc bag. The 62-year-old woman’s world — the lingerie boutique she owned on Lac-Mégantic’s main street,...

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Dozens of bodies discovered in Bosnian mass grave

Dozens of bodies discovered buried in a mass grave in northern Bosnia are believed to be those of Bosniak Muslims and Croats killed by Serb forces in the early days of the civil war. Forensics experts...

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