Israeli search and rescue team heads to Germanwings crash site

An Israeli search and rescue unit has flown to the scene of the Germanwings plane crash disaster in the French Alps to assist in the mission to recover victims. The delegation of eight ZAKA International...

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Painstaking search for bodies of 2,600 soldiers buried alive in Second World War caves gets underway

A painstaking operation to recover the bodies of thousands of soldiers left sealed in caves since the Second World War is underway. More than 2,600 Japanese troops are believed to have been entombed...

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Flood in J&K: 8 bodies recovered from Budgam District; rescue operation intensified

After battling massive floods last September, Jammu & Kashmir once again finds itself submerged as heavy rainfall lashed several parts of the state causing deaths and destruction. To make matters...

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Searchers make roadway to remote France air crash web site

French investigators hope to speed up identification of the 150 individuals killed in last week's Germanwings plane crash by digging a roadtrack that will enable direct access to the disaster zone...

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Şanlıurfa traffic pile-up leaves 12 dead, 11 injured

A traffic accident involving a minibus, a car and a concrete mixer truck killed 12 people and injured 11 others in the southeastern province of Şanlıurfa on Sunday. The accident took place on the...

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Germanwings Flight 4U9525: more on the forensic identification effort

A leading professor who is helping to identify the 600 body parts belonging to the victims of the doomed Germanwings flight says he will be haunted forever by the grim task - as it was revealed the...

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More flight MH17 victims' remains flown to Netherlands for burial

Three coffins carrying victim's remains from the MH17 disaster have been flown from Ukraine to the Netherlands. A farewell ceremony including a guard of honour was held in Kharkiv on Saturday, before...

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12 bodies recovered in Indonesia landslide

Rescuers have found 12 bodies after a landslide hit Sukabumi district in Indonesia's West Java province on Saturday night, an Indonesian official said on Sunday. Soldiers, volunteers and policemen...

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DNA from 78 Germanwings crash victims found

Forensic teams have isolated 78 distinct DNA strands from body parts at the Germanwings crash site in the French Alps, while investigators continued their grim task in the arduous mountain terrain....

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The sinking of the Sultana: A disaster lost in the lingering fog of the Civil War

The men on the boat had seen all manner of death and despair. They had witnessed friends and fellow soldiers shot dead on muddy battlefields. They had endured dirty, disease-ridden Confederate prison...

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At least 9 die in Chile flood, 19 missing

Communities in Chile's northern desert region dug houses and cars out of the mud and worked to reopen roads Friday after floods pummeled several cities and left nine people dead. Nineteen people...

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French police recover remains of Germanwings 9525 crash victims

French police working to recover remains from the Germanwings crash site say so far they have recovered between 400 and 600 pieces of remains from the 150 people who died in Tuesday’s plane crash....

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10 die in stampede during Hindu religious gathering in Narayanganj

At least 10 people were killed and dozens more injured on Friday in a stampede during a Hindu religious gathering in Bangladesh, police said. The accident took place in Langalbandh, a Hindu pilgrimage...

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Germanwings crash: DNA experts work to identify victims

Jewelry and pieces of clothing were being removed from Germanwings crash victims on Friday and helicoptered out, police said Friday, as forensics teams ramped up DNA testing. The grim task of recovering...

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Germanwings crash: why don't we know exactly yet who was on board Flight 9525?

More than 48 hours after the Germanwings flight crashed in the Alps, politicians and the airlines still seem unsure who was on the plane. The authorities initially announced that the crash had...

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Flight 4U 9525: specialists will begin the complex process of identifying the bodies of the victims

Every few hours today an ambulance or a refrigerated lorry left the Alpine field which has become the ad hoc marshalling yard for the vast operation to reach the wreckage of flight 4U 9525. Inside...

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Flight 4U 9525: First bodies recovered, challenges weigh heavily on recovery efforts

This mountain village was a remote place, a haven for holiday hikers and seasoned rock climbers, until this week, when it became a place of incomprehensible tragedy for the families of the passengers...

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At least 14 Vietnam workers killed in scaffolding collapse

At least 14 workers have been killed by collapsing scaffolding in Vietnam's Ha Tinh province, state media report. About 30 other injured people were taken to hospital after the accident on a building...

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Germanwings plane crash: Police guard site overnight to protect victims' bodies from wolves

Five police officers stayed overnight amid the debris at the Germanwings crash site to protect it from souvenir hunters, journalists and wolves. Authorities have strengthened the security cordon...

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80 Pct of bodies found in Mexico illegal graves since '06 still unidentified

Roughly 80 percent of the 601 bodies found in 174 clandestine graves in Mexico between Dec. 1, 2006, and Feb. 28, 2015, have not yet been identified, according to a report by the federal Attorney...

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Families mark 25th anniversary of club fire that killed 87

Family members and friends of victims gathered at a vigil Wednesday night to commemorate the 25th anniversary of a social club fire that killed almost 90 people. At the time, it was the biggest mass...

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More MH17 remains recovered in Ukraine, transported to the Netherlands for identification

Dutch investigators have found more remains of victims of flight MH17 in Ukraine. A team of the Ministry of Defense and police officers recovered remains on Tuesday and Wednesday in Hrabovo in...

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South Sudan munitions explosion kills 7

A blast at a munitions depot in the South Sudan’s Unity State has killed seven people and injured a child, Doctors Without Borders says. The incident occurred on Thursday, when the stockpile of...

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Nine missing in boat sinking off northern Morocco coast

Nine people are still missing after a fishing boat sank on Tuesday in rough waters off northern Moroccan's coast, local authorities said. Naval patrol and Gendarmerie rescue teams stopped the...

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7 killed in train-truck collision during heavy rain in Thailand

A passenger train collided with a pickup truck in heavy rain in northern Thailand on Tuesday, killing seven construction workers in the truck and seriously injuring another, police said. The train,...

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Khairpur bus crash leaves 13 dead and 20 injured

At least thirteen people were killed and 20 others injured when a bus collided with a truck in southern Pakistan on Wednesday morning, Dunya News reported. The accident happened on Mehran Highway...

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Flight 4U 9525: Recovery effort under way in French Alps

At first light on Wednesday, rescue teams restarted their recovery mission searching for the victims of the air crash that shocked the whole of Europe the day before. Nearly 500 people, among them...

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Flight 4U9525 recovery effort resumes, rescuers struggle to recover bodies in Germanwings French Alps crash

The arduous search for the 150 victims of the worst aviation disaster on French soil in decades was set to resume at dawn on Wednesday, as European leaders visit the site of the tragedy to pay their...

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