Three dead, 100 rescued as migrant boat sinks off Libya

Libya's navy said it retrieved the bodies of three would-be migrants and rescued almost 100 others after their boat sank Thursday. “One of the migrants called us on a satellite telephone to tell...

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MH17: recovering the victims

A guidebook on Bali and a children's card game lie amid the debris of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 as emergency workers pick through the grisly carnage of the vast crash site, recovering victim after...

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MH17 air crash: Battle for control of disaster inquiry

The investigation into the MH17 air disaster is fraught with difficulties. The crash site is in territory controlled by pro-Russian separatists. Jurisdiction and control over what emerges as the...

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The 'crying women' at Mexico's mass graves

Tres Valles is so small that deaths in the town are announced by a loudspeaker mounted onto a car roof. Benita Fuentes was the latest member of this tight-knit community to have passed away, so...

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Malaysia Airlines Plane Crashes in Ukraine, 295 On Board

A plane belonging to Malaysian Airlines has gone down over eastern Ukraine, near the Russian border. Malaysia Airlines has tweeted that it lost contact with flight MH17 from Amsterdam, and that the...

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Three months later, body recovered from South Korea ferry

Divers retrieved another body Friday from the site of South Korea's ferry disaster -- the first to be recovered in nearly four weeks from the submerged vessel that sank three months ago. The body...

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