Rain hampers Nepal rescue efforts

Rescue teams toiled in pouring rain on Thursday in the debris left by last week’s devastating earthquake in Nepal, but officials said the chances of finding any more survivors was bleak as the death...

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Mozambique plane crash victims buried

The unidentified remains of those killed when a Mozambican plane crashed in northern Namibia in November 2013, were buried at the Gammams Cemetery in Pionierspark yesterday morning. The aircraft...

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How amateur mappers are helping recovery efforts in Nepal

In the waning days of April 2014, two months after Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappeared somewhere near the South China Sea, 60-year-old American pilot Michael Hoebel reported that he had found...

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Nepal earthquake: DNA test to identify Assam victims

The Assam government will conduct DNA tests to identify the bodies of its residents who died in the Nepal earthquake. Assam home commissioner L.S. Changsan today said seven persons from Assam -all...

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Commemorating the Quintinshill rail disaster

Dumfries and Galloway will commemorate the centenary of the Quintinshill rail disaster on 22 May 2015. The Quintinshill rail disaster on 22 May 1915 claimed 227 lives, including 216 servicemen of...

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At Civil War's end, a steamboat disaster that history forgot

What remains of the greatest maritime disaster in U.S. history lies buried beneath an Arkansas beanfield where the Mississippi River once ran. A century-and-a-half later, residents of the nearest...

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Google, Facebook join Red Cross to find thousands missing after Nepal quake

German development worker Caroline Siebald and her boyfriend Charles Gertler, an American glaciologist, were on a rafting trip in Nepal when the earthquake struck and initially panicked about how...

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Nepal earthquake: Bodies being cremated as aftershocks hamper relief effort

Sleeping in the streets and shell-shocked, Nepalese cremated the dead and dug through rubble for the missing Sunday, a day after a massive Himalayan earthquake killed more than 2,200 people. Aftershocks...

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Google launches ‘Person Finder’ after devastating earthquake hits Nepal

Google India has launched its ‘Person Finder’ instance to help track missing persons after a massive 7.9 earthquake hit Nepal on Saturday. Google’s Person Finder is a free tool that helps friends...

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Rescue efforts intensify in Nepal

A 6.7 magnitude aftershock has struck Nepal amid a desperate search for people trapped by the earthquake, which has killed more than 2,000 people. The aftershock, felt as far away as New Delhi, sent...

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Mount Everest avalanche triggered by Nepal earthquake kills at least 18: reports

A powerful earthquake in Nepal has triggered an avalanche on Mount Everest, killing at least 18 people, according to reports. An Indian army mountaineering team found 18 bodies on Mount Everest,...

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Devastating Nepal quake kills over 1,300, some in Everest avalanche

A powerful earthquake struck Nepal and sent tremors through northern India on Saturday, killing more than 1,300 people, touching off a deadly avalanche on Mount Everest and toppling a 19th-century tower...

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At least 14 migrants killed in Macedonia after being hit by train while walking through canyon

At least fourteen migrants have died after being hit by an international passenger train in central Macedonia as they walked through a canyon along an increasingly well-trodden Balkan route for migrants...

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Rana Plaza anniversary: ‘Missing’ victims add to Bangladesh factory collapse agony

Tearful and angry survivors of the Rana Plaza disaster gathered at the factory site Friday to protest against poor compensation on the two-year anniversary of the tragedy that claimed more than 1,100...

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55 dead, over 80 injured in storm-hit Bihar

The toll in the killer storm in Bihar has risen to 55 from 48 as more bodies were found overnight in the 12 ravaged districts today. Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh is set to tour Purnia, accompanied...

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Pakistan: First DNA testing lab of Sindh launched

Chief Minister Qaim Ali Shah inaugurated the forensic and molecular biology laboratory for deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) testing and Institute of Bio-Medical Technology established by the Liaquat University...

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24 unidentified migrants from latest Med tragedy laid to rest in inter-faith ceremony

24 migrants who died in this week’s tragedy off the coast of Libya were buried this morning after a remembrance ceremony held at Mater Dei Hospital. The victims are only a small fraction of the 700...

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Death toll in China mine accident rises to 21

The number of people killed at a coal mine in northern China has risen to 21, local officials say. The final death toll was confirmed by Datong city officials in Shanxi Province on Thursday. ...

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Kosova: Victims of Kosovo war mass grave identified

The last batch of 21 remains out of the total 54 Kosovo Albanians discovered at a mass grave have been identified and returned to their families in Kosovo’s capital Pristina, it was announced Thursday...

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Moroccan activists fight to give dead migrants dignified burial

At least 700 migrants drowned in the Mediterranean sea after their boat sunk on Saturday evening. There were only 28 survivors, and only 24 bodies were recovered, according to the Italian coast guard....

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17 Indian pilgrims killed in Nepal accident, bodies identified

At least 17 Indian pilgrims were killed and 28 others injured on Wednesday when a bus carrying them plunged into a river while negotiating a sharp bend along a downhill section of the Prithvi Highway...

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'Many' more human remains found at MH17 crash site

Dutch investigators have recovered "many" more body parts and pieces of wreckage after resuming their search at the Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 plane crash site in Ukraine, the Netherlands said...

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Mediterranean Graveyard, The nameless dead of Malta

They're stacked in silver tubes. One on top of another. They are sealed in black plastic bags with marker-scribbled signs hung at their feet: Unknown Number 7, Unknown Number 10. Here, we can count...

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Death toll rises to 19 in N China mine flooding

Nineteen people were confirmed dead as of 10 a.m. Wednesday at a flooded coal mine in the northern province of Shanxi, according to the nation's work safety regulator. Rescuers have retrieved 19...

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Sudan gold mine collapse leaves six people dead, dozens missing

A gold-mine collapse in Sudan’s western region of Darfur killed six people and may have left more than 30 others trapped underground, a community leader said. The disaster occurred last week at the...

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South Korea sets plan to raise 'corroded' Sewol ferry year after disaster, nine still missing

South Korea said on Wednesday it will raise the Sewol ferry that sank a year ago, killing more than 300 people, most of them children, yielding to pressure from mourning families who have called for...

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