DNA tests for 437 Chinese People's Volunteer soldiers' remains returned to China

DNA will be collected from the remains of Chinese soldiers killed in the 1950-53 Korean War, official sources have said. The remains of 437 Chinese People's Volunteer (CPV) soldiers were brought...

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'River Monsters' - Sobral Santos II disaster in 1981

Who — or, more accurately, what — killed as many as 300 people in Brazil’s Amazon River in 1981? In Saturday night’s episode of “River Monsters,” fresh-water detective (and extreme angler) Jeremy...

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Police in Somerset and Dorset trying to identify 17 bodies

Police are still trying to identify 17 bodies which have been found in Somerset and Dorset. The UK Missing Persons Bureau has a list of all the human remains found stretching back to the 1960s which...

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Number of missing in Oso mudslide drops to 13

he number of people listed as missing after the deadly March 22 Washington state mudslide has dropped from 15 to 13 on the latest list provided by the Snohomish County sheriff's office. The Snohomish...

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Search for ship sunk off South Korea finds no trace of missing crew

An overnight search for a cargo ship carrying 16 North Korean crew that sank off South Korea killing at least two failed to find any signs of survivors or debris. The 4,300-tonne Mongolian-flagged...

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Dozens missing in Solomon Islands flash floods

Dozens of people are still missing after flash floods that have killed at least 12 people and left some 10,000 homeless in the Solomon Islands. Local media said about 30 people remained unaccounted...

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Soi Lat Plakhao WWII bomb explosion: Junk shop ignored granny's warning

The death toll in the World War II bomb explosion in Soi Lat Plakhao 72, Bang Khen, increased to eight on Thursday, while in Chon Buri experts are trying to defuse a similar bomb discovered in an industrial...

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