Malaysia jet search: India to deploy ships, aircraft and helicopters

India's defense ministry instructed the joint command on the remote Andaman and Nicobar Islands to deploy ships, aircraft and helicopters to search for a missing Malaysian airliner, a command spokesman...

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How the search for Flight MH370 is run

The longer it takes, the harder it gets to find the lost Malaysia Airlines flight MH370. Spotting small objects floating on the surface of the water is a tough task after any air crash. But the...

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Searching for Central American migrants who disappeared in Mexico

Guatemalan Arturo Reyes remains forever haunted by what happened on one fateful day in February 2011, when he learned just how dangerous – and deadly – a northern trek across Mexico can be for those...

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Andalucia to look for missing victims of Franco

Authorities in Andalucia are to step up the search for the remains of people who went missing during the civil war. The state will be able to temporarily expropriate land in cases where its owner...

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Recovering plane wreckage from water an arduous task

When planes crash into water, it can take days to find the "black boxes" that record information about the flight — even when the plunge is witnessed, according to four plane crash investigations before...

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China belatedly reports 31 dead in tunnel blast

The death toll from a little-reported road explosion was disclosed Thursday to be a much higher 31, nearly two weeks after the blast shook a highway tunnel in northwestern China. The city government...

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Death toll rises after explosion makes two buildings collapse in Harlem

A major explosion caused by a gas leak flattened two Manhattan apartment buildings in a fireball on Wednesday, killing at least five people and injuring 63 others. The new, fifth fatality was a...

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