USS Oklahoma remains to be exhumed, commingled DNA examined

The remains of nearly 400 unidentified American servicemen killed at Pearl Harbor will be exhumed, identified, and given individual burials, the US government has announced. The bodies are those...

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Dozens of migrants 'missing in new Mediterranean boat tragedy'

As many as 41 migrants have drowned after another boat carrying refugees sank in the Mediterranean, Italian media reported Thursday, one day after another boat, carrying over 500 migrants, capsized...

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Relief for family members as search for MH370 continues

It was news the next-of-kin of passengers on board the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 had been hoping for. During a meeting in Kuala Lumpur on Thursday (Apr 16), the Malaysian, Chinese and...

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Identifying the dead: Why the ICRC is increasing its forensic expertise in Africa

"We don't have a lack of disasters in Africa." That was one observation made at the 4th Annual meeting of the Africa Society of Forensic Medicine, held in Nairobi, Kenya in March. That in part explains...

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Bodies of Rampura house collapse victims handed over to family

Police today handed over bodies of the 12 killed in collapse of a two storey tin structure in a marshland in Rampura area of Dhaka. “The bodies have been handed over to families this morning,” Ataur...

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