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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Colombia flood, mudslide death toll rising rapidly

Rescuers searched for more bodies on Tuesday (Wednesday NZT) as the death toll from a deadly flood and mudslide that swept through a Colombian town rose to 65. The avalanche of mud and debris roared...

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