Over 8000 people still missing in Bosnia

Over 8,400 people are still missing after the Bosnian war between 1992 and 1995, Marko Jurisic of the Institute for Missing People in Bosnia and Herzegovina told the media in Sarajevo on Thursday....

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Clapham rail disaster: Ex-firefighter remembers train crash

Twenty-five years ago 35 people were killed and 500 people injured when three trains collided in Clapham, south London. BBC producer Clifford Thompson, who at that time worked as a firefighter and...

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Bubonic plague kills 20 in Madagascar village

Twenty people have died following a deadly outbreak of the bubonic plague, medical experts on the island of Madagascar have confirmed. A village near the north-western town of Mandritsara is where...

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Market fire in China's Shenzhen kills 16

A blaze which engulfed a Chinese food market killed 16 people in the early hours of Wednesday, firefighters and state media said. The inferno raged through the Rongjian Agricultural Wholesale Market...

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Typhoon death toll continues to rise as 23 more bodies recovered

Twenty-three more bodies were recovered yesterday as the death toll from Typhoon Yolanda rose to 5,959. The National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) said 27,022 people were...

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Russian experts test human remains after 39-year hunt for Hull trawlermen

British police are to work with Russian experts in an attempt finally to bring peace to grieving families of the victims of one of Britain's worst-ever tragedies at sea. No distress call was made...

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