Argentina identifies the remains of a body that washed ashore in Uruguay in 1976 as a “disappeared” victim of that era.

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Police in western Mexico try to identify the remains of 18 people found dismembered and dumped in two cars in Jalisco state.

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Mutilated bodies found in Mexico

NEW DELHI — Rescue workers searched Tuesday for the remains of about 160 people who were still missing, 24 hours after an overcrowded ferry broke apart and sank in the Brahmaputra river during a severe storm in eastern India. Read full article > >

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Scores dead in ferry sinking in India; hope for survivors dwindles

FORT WAYNE, Ind. — A babysitter and trusted neighbor has confessed that he bludgeoned a 9-year-old Indiana girl to death with a brick then dismembered her, hiding her head, hands and feet at his home and dumping the rest of her remains nearby, police said Tuesday. Allen County sheriff’s investigators said in an affidavit that 39-year-old Michael Plumadore admits he killed Aliahna Lemmon on Thursday. Read full article > >

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A published report says the remains of many more troops have been dumped in a Virginia landfill than the military originally acknowledged.

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Remains of 274 Troops Dumped, Report Says

A 35-year-old teacher remains in a stable condition in hospital after an experiment went wrong in a science laboratory at a Milton Keynes school.

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Teacher hurt in science test fire

The Air Force, already under fire for mishandling the remains of war dead at the mortuary in Dover , is being urged to seek an outside review of its investigators in response to criticism that the service fell short in its effort to hold people accountable. Earlier this week, the Air Force announced that it had disciplined three officials after investigating whistleblowers’ allegations of “gross mismanagement” at the mortuary. An independent government watchdog agency set up to protect whistleblowers said, however, that the Air Force had managed to “stop just short of accepting accountability.” Read full article > >

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Sen. McCaskill seeks review of Air Force IG

Six birds found dead recently in Southern California’s Tehachapi Mountains were majestic golden eagles. But some bird watchers say that in an area where dozens of wind turbines slice the air they were also sitting ducks. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is investigating to determine what killed the big raptors, and declined to divulge the conditions of the remains. But the likely cause of death is no mystery to wildlife biologists who say they were probably clipped by the blades of some of the 80 wind turbines at the three-year-old Pine Tree Wind Farm Project , operated by the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. Read full article > >

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Wind farms under fire for bird kills

Authorities have found what they believe to be the remains of Breeann Rodriguez, a 3-year-old Missouri girl whose neighbor told police he had suffocated the child.

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Remains found likely to be of 3-year-old Missouri girl

A serial killer in the US who hid the remains of 11 women in his home and garden in Ohio has been sentenced to death.

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VIDEO: Serial killer faces lethal injection

Yvonne McKoy’s daughter surprised her after church one Sunday in December with the news that she planned to marry. Then her daughter moved away, and she never saw her again. On Thursday, police in Durham, N.C., explained why. Antoinetta Yvonne McKoy, 27, was found dead Wednesday, her remains wrapped in a plastic bag unearthed by a plumbing crew behind a house. Durham police have charged seven people in the slaying of the District native. One of them, Pete Lucas Moses Jr., 27, was her fiance, Yvonne McKoy said. Authorities say he was the leader of a home-based religious sect called the Black Hebrews that operated out of a house in Durham. Read full article > >

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7 charged in death of missing D.C. woman

The Colombian government identifies the remains of 10,000 people missing in the past 20 years of the long-standing internal conflict.

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Colombia conflict victims named

Chile is set to exhume the remains of former leader Salvador Allende to try to determine whether he was murdered or killed himself in 1973.

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Chile to exhume Salvador Allende

Sonali Shah visited Lampedusa to take a look at the remains of boats that have brought tens of thousands of North Africans refugees to the tiny Italian island.

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VIDEO: Lampedusa’s refugee boat ‘cemetery’

A senior UN official in Ivory Coast tells the BBC new mass graves with the remains of more than 50 male victims have been found in an Abidjan suburb.

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