First bodies retrieved from bottom of Med Sea after migrant boat disaster in April

The Italian navy has brought to shore the first three bodies of more than 700 thought to be lying at the bottom of the Mediterranean after the worst migrant boat disaster since the Second World War....

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Nepal’s religious minorities battle for burial grounds

In a quiet corner in Rajahar, a small town in south-central Nepal, a two-decade old mosque serves not only as a place for prayer but also as one of few spaces unencumbered for the tiny, close-knit...

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Floods, landslides leave at least 28 dead or missing in China

Rain-triggered floods and landslides in four provinces since Friday have left at least 28 people dead or missing. Five people have died in landslides in Shangcheng County, Henan Province, where heavy...

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Service men killed in crash en route to Vietnam remembered

Fifty years ago, 84 U.S. service men boarded an Air Force jet near Irvine bound for war-torn Vietnam, prepared to defend their country. But the men never received their marching orders. Shortly...

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At least 38 dead after military plane crashes in Indonesian city

At least 38 people have been killed after an Indonesian military plane crashed Tuesday in a residential neighborhood of Medan city in North Sumatra, a police official said, according to the Associated...

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Italy begins recovery of 800 migrant bodies from Med shipwreck

The Italian navy said it had begun efforts to recover the bodies of some 800 migrants killed in a shipwreck in the Mediterranean in April, as authorities rescued another 4,400 people making the dangerous...

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