S Korea ferry disaster: Temp teachers discriminated, even in death

On April 16, 2014, 26-year-old Kim Cho-won and 31-year-old Lee Ji-hye, teachers from Danwon High School, rushed downstairs from their fifth-floor cabin as the ferry they were on began to list. They...

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Natural disaster and extreme weather death toll on the rise

In the first half of 2015, 16,000 people died worldwide in natural tragedies, including earthquakes and heatwaves, up from 2014. There has been a major global spike in deaths resulting from natural...

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A year later, MH17 relatives grieve, wait

A year on from the grotesque calamity that killed all 298 people aboard MH17, the Dutch Safety Board, which has coordinated the investigation, is yet to present conclusive evidence as to the cause....

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6 illegal migrants die after boat sinks off Çanakkale coast

Six illegal migrants were killed while one went missing on Tuesday night when the boat they were in sank off the northwestern province of Çanakkale in the Aegean Sea while trying to reach to the island...

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The missing: 275000 Britons disappear each year

ODD place, Britain. Every day, 13 million CCTV cameras track our movements. We’re PINnumbered, databased, credit-rated, nannied, Neighbourhood Watched, Facebooked, e-mailed and GPS-ed. You wouldn’t...

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Lithuanian chief rabbi protests excavation of WWII mass grave

The chief rabbi of Lithuania appealed to authorities to prevent the excavation of a mass grave of Holocaust victims in the country’s north. Rabbi Chaim Burshtein issued the statement Tuesday about...

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