Laos recovers crashed plane black boxes

Search teams on Thursday recovered the flight data recorders of a Lao Airlines plane that plunged into the Mekong River in bad weather killing all 49 people on board, officials said. The black...

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Bodies of 92 migrants who died of thirst found in Niger desert (update)

The bodies of 92 migrants, most of them women and children, have been found in northern Niger after their vehicles broke down attempting to cross the vast Sahara desert, authorities said today. The...

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Finding the millions of missing people across the world

The International Commission on Missing Persons is hosting a three day conference called “The Missing – an Agenda for the Future” at the Hague. The core strategy of the conference is to set out...

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Lebanese child boat victim identified

The body of a child from the northern city of Akkar has been identified among the victims from the tragic boat accident last month in Indonesia, the National News Agency reported Wednesday. The...

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Families of Andhra bus accident victims asked to give samples for DNA test

Families of victims of the Mahbubnagar bus accident have been asked to submit samples for DNA testing at the Andhra Pradesh Forensic Science Laboratory (APFSL) in Hyderabad. The charred remains...

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