Torrential rain kills 23, displaces thousands in Sri Lanka

Nearly 150 schools have been closed, 23 people died and thousands more displaced as Sri Lanka grapples with rains that have lashed the island for days, an official said on Wednesday. Torrential...

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Gaul families still wait on Russians for bodies inspection

Efforts are continuing to send a team to Russia to help identify the remains of up to 10 men who could be crew members of Hull supertrawler the Gaul. The remains, which had been buried in a cave...

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Remains of 37 persons recovered in Rudnica so far

The remains of 37 people have so far been exhumed from the Rudnica quarry, southern Serbia. The news agency is quoting the head of the Commission for Missing Persons, Veljko Odalović, who made the...

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The Challenge of Counting D-Day’s Dead

In 2000, Carol Tuckwiller was handed the monumental task of identifying every Allied soldier who died on June 6, 1944, during the World War II invasion of German-held Normandy. The former librarian...

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