Highland Towers: Lessons learnt from the disaster

Rescue agencies are today better prepared for any worst case scenarios as a result of lessons learnt from the Highland Towers collapse. Fire and Rescue Department director-general Datuk Wan Mohd...

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Reclaiming Peru's dead

Valentin Casa can’t shake the recurring nightmares. And this day certainly isn’t helping. The 36-year-old farmer looks on as forensic investigators unearth a pair of finger bones and two copper rings...

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Digs start at grave site in Rudnica near Raska

The Serbian War Crimes Prosecutor’s Office and the Commission for Missing Persons launched the digs at the site in Rudnica, municipality of Raska, which is believed to hold the remains of 250 people....

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Bodies of Hull trawler Gaul's missing crew 'found in Russia' 40 years after Cold War mystery sinking

Human remains thought to be missing members of the crew of Hull trawler Gaul - which went missing in February, 1974 - have been discovered on the Russian coast. DNA tests are currently being carried...

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