Search is on to identify ‘unknown’ sailors at Pearl Harbor

As the sun broke from behind the clouds over Oahu’s Koolau mountains one recent morning, a seven-member detail of military personnel transferred five coffins, disinterred from two graves marked “unknown,”...

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Italy finds dozens of migrants dead in hold during ship rescue

At least 40 migrants died Saturday in the hold of an overcrowded smuggling boat in the Mediterranean Sea north of Libya, apparently killed by fuel fumes, and some 320 others on the same boat were saved...

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China blasts death toll rises to 112

The death toll from two massive explosions in the Chinese port of Tianjin has risen to 112, an official says. More than 700 people have also been hospitalised as a result of Wednesday's blasts -...

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