Search for MH370: Underwater vehicle Bluefin-21 deployed to find plane's wreckage

To sink underwater by the height of Britain’s tallest tower would still only cover 7 per cent of the descent to the floor of the Indian Ocean, 4,500 metres down, where the black boxes from Malaysia...

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Victims of Pinochet government reburied in Chile after 40 years

The remains of six men have been reburied in Chile more than 40 years after they were killed by the military government of Augusto Pinochet. Their bodies were discovered in an unmarked grave in...

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36 reported dead after bus hits parked truck along Mexico highway

A passenger bus slammed into a broken-down truck and burst into flames, killing at least 36 people Sunday in southern Mexico, the Veracruz state government reported. Both state and federal officials...

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S. Korea repatriates body of sailor to N. Korea

South Korea handed over to North Korea the body of a man found dead off South Korea's southern coast where a Mongolian cargo ship carrying North Korean sailors sank earlier this month, an official...

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Fire rages through Valparaiso, killing 12 and destroying at least 2,000 homes

A raging fire leaped from hilltop to hilltop in this historic Chilean port city and stubbornly burned out of control in places more than 24 hours later, killing 12 people and destroying at least 2,000...

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