Monday, 9 December 2013

50 years later, witnesses, families recall Flight 214 crash

December 9

While residents were returning from evening church services, finishing up a late supper or watching “The Ed Sullivan Show,” five airliners were circling above Elkton, waiting for the OK to fly the...

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Identifying victims of Argentina's 'Dirty War'

December 9

The lab in Buenos Aires houses row after row of boxes, each containing the unidentified remains of a long-missing son, daughter, father or mother. The neatly-stacked boxes of skeletal fragments are...

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Seven dead, nine missing in Brazilian landslide

December 9

At least seven people died and nine others are missing in a landslide caused by a heavy rainstorm that buried about 20 homes on the weekend in Lajedinho, a city in the interior of the Brazilian state...

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