Experts identify 173 MH17 victims

Forensics teams from the Netherlands say they have so far positively identified 173 victims of flight MH17, which was shot down over Ukraine. They say they are unable to use dental records or fingerprints...

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15 killed, 8 missing in landslide in China

At least 15 people have been killed and eight others remain missing after a landslide destroyed a village in China’s southwestern Guizhou Province. The landslide struck Yingping Village in Fuquan...

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More than 300 die in boat tragedies on Mediterranean

The past few days have been the deadliest this year for people making irregular crossings on the Mediterranean from North Africa to Europe, with the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) reporting...

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Death toll after landslides reaches 72 in Hiroshima

The death toll from last week’s landslides in Hiroshima rose to 72 on Thursday, while 10 people remained unaccounted for, local police said. A total of eight bodies remained unidentified, the Hiroshima...

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The night the Marchioness went down

A huge party of friends and relatives took an emotional trip on London’s river this week to pay tribute to those who died in one of Britain’s worst peacetime disasters. Many of them had been on the...

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Behind the High Tech Forensics of Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17

Dutch officials expect precise accuracy from DNA-matching software that will be used to identify many of the 298 Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 victims. But it is unknown whether there will be enough...

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At least 27 dead and several missing after landslides hit Hiroshima in Japan

Rain-sodden slopes collapsed in torrents of mud, rock and debris Wednesday in the outskirts of Hiroshima, killing at least 36 people and leaving seven missing, police said. Public broadcaster NHK...

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China's drone-led search for earthquake survivors

Earlier this month, first responders in China used drones to determine the hardest-hit areas following a massive earthquake that killed more than 600 people, in one of the first displays of how drones...

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Benin closes all traditional morgues citing Ebola threat

The Beninese government has ordered the closure of all traditional morgues across the country to protect its population against the Ebola virus disease. The illegal structures that operate under...

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Building collapse kills at least 8 in South Africa

Eight South African workers died on Monday when a building under construction collapsed, and more people were feared trapped under the rubble, emergency workers said. The labourers were working...

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Bihar: Train rams autorickshaw at a manned railway crossing, 18 killed

At least eighteen people were killed after Dehradun-Gorakhpur Rapti Ganga Express rams an autorickshaw in Bihar`s Motihari district on Monday. Reports alleged that all who have died in the mishap belong...

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2010 Mangalore air crash: ‘Identification of bodies was a disaster after air crash’

In the early hours of May 22, 2010, Air India Express flight (from Dubai to Mangalore) overshot the runway and exploded into flames as it plummeted down the valley at Bajpe. The issue of identification...

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Death toll in Nepal floods reaches 142, 243 missing

Death toll in floods and landslides across Nepal touched 142 on Monday with recovery of more bodies. The number of those missing increased to 243 till evening. Deputy prime minister and home minister...

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Forensic experts identify 127 victims of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17

Half of the number of victims of the Malaysia Airlines MH17 plane crash have been identified, the Dutch National Forensic Investigation Team stated through a private forum for relatives, national broadcaster...

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Looting of Ebola clinic in Liberia sparks fresh infection fears

A quarantine centre for suspected Ebola patients in the Liberian capital Monrovia has been attacked and looted by protesters, police say. Liberian health officials are worried the deadly Ebola virus...

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Nepal flooding and landslides kill scores

Thirty-three more bodies were recovered on Saturday in various districts of the mid-western region. Mid West was hit hardest by the devastating rainfall, worst in years. Surkhet, Bardiya and Dang...

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Munshiganj ferry tragedy rescue operation called off: 46 bodies recovered, 61 still missing

Rescuers today called off their search operation for passenger launch Pinak-6 that went down in the Padma waters seven days ago near Mawa Launch Ghat. Patrolling in different surrounding districts...

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65 bodies from MH17 site identified

Dutch forensic experts have identified a total of 65 victims of downed flight MH17, the Dutch government said as the last of the investigators returned from eastern Ukraine. Forty-two more victims...

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Iran plane crash near Tehran kills 38 near Mehrabad

At least 38 people were killed but others survived when a small passenger plane crashed near the Iranian capital Tehran, state media reports. The aircraft, which was heading to the eastern city of...

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Girl presumed dead in tsunami 10 years ago reunites with family

When the Indian Ocean tsunami hit a decade ago, an Indonesian family sifted through bodies believing one might have been their 4-year-old daughter, a search that finally ended this week. Raudhatul...

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China earthquake prompts debate on role of volunteers

Five days after an earthquake killed hundreds in southwestern China, a debate is swirling around the mob of volunteers who flooded into the disaster zone, demonstrating how the world's most-populous...

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21 more MH17 crash victims identified,

Dutch forensics experts have identified 21 more victims of flight MH17, the government said on Friday, while their colleagues at the crash site began arriving home from east Ukraine where fighting...

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123 missing presumed dead in Nepal landslide

The 123 people missing in Saturday’s massive landslide in Sindhupalchok are now considered dead and the search operation has been stopped after Wednesday. The missing, however, cannot be officially...

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Varanasi boat capsize: 5 more bodies recovered, 7 missing

The bodies of five more persons were fished out of the Ganga river while a search was on to trace the seven others who had gone missing after a boat capsized in the river near Shooltankeshwar area....

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33 dead, 131 still missing after Bangladesh ferry capsized

The confirmed number of dead in the Bangladesh ferry disaster is climbing steadily as rescuers recover the bodies of more victims far away from the site where the vessel sank four days earlier. "The...

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