Texas floods: death toll rises as body is recovered and 11 people are still missing

Dallas police said on Saturday a man’s body had been recovered from standing water, after storms flooded parts of the metro. The find brought the death toll in Texas and Oklahoma from storms and floods...

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Perlis migrant mass grave: Post-mortem on human remains in Wang Kelian begins June 7

Come June 7, the health ministry will begin conducting post-mortem on human skeletal remains found at grave sites in Wang Kelian, Perlis. Minister, Datuk Seri Dr S. Subramaniam said the post-mortem...

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India's deadly heat wave drags on, death toll tops 1,800

Temperatures dipped marginally in southern India Friday where a deadly heatwave has killed at least 1,800 people, officials said. The bulk of casualties were reported from the southern states of...

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Italy rescues 4,200 boat migrants in Mediterranean on Friday, 17 die

More than 4,200 migrants and refugees have been rescued in the past 24 hours in the Mediterranean during 22 separate operations carried out by naval vessels and merchant ships. The operations were...

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The Heysel disaster - 30 years on

May 29, 1985 will forever remain in the memories of football fans affiliated with Juventus and Liverpool. As the clubs prepared for the European Cup final in the Heysel Stadium in Brussels, Belgium,...

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Bodies of six school children located in Laos' ferry disaster, 4 missing

Search parties in Laos have located the remains of six of the 10 school children that had gone missing and been presumed drowned after a vessel ferrying students and teachers across a major Mekong...

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Five more bodies found at Nepal crash site of US helicopter

Authorities have found DNA evidence that five more people may have been on board a US military helicopter that crashed during a humanitarian relief mission after the Nepal earthquake. Investigators...

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Iraq 'exhumed 470 bodies from Tikrit mass graves'

Iraq has exhumed the remains of 470 people believed to have been executed by jihadists near Tikrit last year in what is known as the Speicher massacre, the health minister said Thursday. "We have...

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Nepal recovers more human remains from U.S. chopper crash site

Nepal has found more human remains at the site where a U.S. military helicopter crashed during a mission to aid victims of the country's earthquake, the army said on Wednesday. The recovery was...

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Lufthansa begins repatriation of victims of Germanwings disaster

The bodies of victims of the Germanwings flight that crashed into the Alps in March of this year are now being repatriated to their home towns. Lufthansa, the parent company of the Cologne airline,...

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Oceanline SC2018: Four bodies recovered from sunken barge

Four bodies have been recovered so far from a barge that sunk off the coast of Singapore last week. The search for the 14 sailors missing from the Oceanline SC2018, a Bolivian-registered sand barge...

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Last bodies recovered after Colombia mine tragedy that killed 15

Emergency workers have recovered the final bodies of people killed in a collapsed, unlicensed gold mine on an indigenous reservation in central Colombia, bringing the official toll to 15 dead, authorities...

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Malaysia mass grave: Forensic team carrying out test to identify bodies

The police forensic team is carrying out identification process on the bodies following the discovery of mass graves believed to have been used to accommodate refugees in Padang Besar. Home Minister...

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Dover DNA lab to help ID Pearl Harbor remains

A gram of bone. If well-preserved and accompanied by the right genetic reference samples, it's enough to put a name and a face on an unknown soul thought lost to the ages. In the coming months and...

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Mass graves discovered in Malaysian migrant trafficking camps

Malaysian authorities said on Sunday that they have discovered "mass graves" in more than a dozen abandoned camps used by human traffickers on the border with Thailand, where Rohingya Muslims fleeing...

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Chinese rescuers return from Rasuwa as deadline expires

The Chinese rescue teams deployed in the district 12 days ago returned to Kerung on Saturday as the Nepal government’s deadline has expired before they could complete their task. Sources said that...

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16 confirmed dead after 9-storey building collapses in SW China

16 people have now been confirmed to have died in Wednesday's building collapse in Guiyang, South West China. 114 people were in the 9-storey building when it came down. 98 managed to escape soon...

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Two more bodies found in sunken barge off Johor

Two bodies of crew members of barge which capsized off Tanjung Punggai last Wednesday were discovered Sunday. The bodies were found by divers, near the door of the sunken vessel at about 8am. The...

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SAR ops for capsized barge victims to proceed, 12 still missing

The search and rescue (SAR) operation for the missing crew members of a barge which sank four days ago will continue today by extending the search into areas 15 nautical miles north and east and eight...

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240 Nepalis, 89 foreigners still missing

The Nepal Police has said 240 Nepalis and 89 foreigners were still missing since the April 25 earthquake in the country. Spokesperson of Nepal Police Kamal Singh Bam said the search for the missing...

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Heavy rains kill 60 in China

At least 60 people were killed in rain-related incidents in China, where large swathes in the south have been hammered by rainstorms this week, with 10 more deaths reported on Saturday. Thirteen...

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Work on memorial for Bajpe air crash victims soon

The victims of 2010 Bajpe air crash were remembered on the occasion of fifth anniversary of the disaster with public representatives, officials and public paying homage at the international airport...

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Ukraine says search operation at MH17 crash site ends

Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Gennady Zubko said Friday that the team of international experts has finished its search and recovery operation at the site in eastern Ukraine where Malaysia Airlines...

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Relatives of Uruguay’s disappeared seek truth

Uruguayan Deputy Macarena Gelman, granddaughter of the late Argentine poet Juan Gelman, said yesterday that “there is much work to be done” in the search for truth and justice for crimes committed...

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Eight confirmed dead and eight still missing following tragic collapse of a nine-storey residential block in China

Eight people have been confirmed dead and another eight are still missing following the collapse of nine-storey apartment block in south west China yesterday. 14 people, including a four-month-old...

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Forensic experts lead families to remains of missing migrants

Brooks County, Texas — 70 miles north of the U.S.- Mexico border — has seen at least 365 migrant deaths since 2011. Forensic anthropologists in Texas and Arizona are working to identify these migrants...

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Valenzuela fire: Relatives identify victims' belongings

The burnt necklaces, watches, and fragments of clothes: these were all that were left behind by the 72 workers killed in the fire that hit Kentex Manufacturing Corporation in Valenzuela City on May...

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One-stop aid center for Kentex fire victims’ kin

The Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) has set up a “one-stop-assistance-center that will facilitate interagency government assistance” to the relatives of the victims of a fire...

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Italy to recover bodies from shipwrecked boat as EU falters on migrant plan

Italy will recover hundreds of bodies from a boat which capsized in April in a bid to prevent the collapse of an EU plan to tackle the migrant crisis, the prime minister said yesterday. “We will...

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Germanwings plane crash: All victims identified

All the human remains found at the scene of the Germanwings air crash have been identified and will be returned to their families, a French prosecutor says. The plane crashed in the French Alps on...

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Living with earthquakes

There is one thing all of us in Nepal have struggled to do since 25th April: live with uncertainty. The hundreds of aftershocks that followed the 7.8 magnitude earthquake on that Saturday had been...

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6 bodies found after Guyana mining accident; 4 still missing

Rescue crews in Guyana have recovered the bodies of six miners who had been missing since an open-pit gold mine collapsed in the South American country. Police said Tuesday that authorities are...

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