BRUSSELS, (APP/AFP): Working with teeth, fingerprints and DNA, and sometimes relying on just tiny body parts, the forensic experts dealing with the victims of the Brussels attacks warn it could take weeks to identify them. In a large military hospital complex in a leafy district north of Brussels, the experts are at work to establish […]
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‘Weeks’ to identify Brussels blast victims
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Twelve killed as minibus collides with truck in France: official
LYON, (APP/AFP): Twelve people were killed when the minibus they were travelling in collided with a heavy truck late Thursday in Allier, central France, local authorities said. The minibus was travelling from Switzerland to Portugal when the accident happened just before midnight. “The twelve passengers of the minibus, who were all Portuguese, are dead,” a […]
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Obama heads back to US after historic Latin America trip
BUENOS AIRES, (APP/AFP): US President Barack Obama headed back to the United States early Friday after a historic trip to Latin America that saw him make a landmark visit to Cuba before continuing on to Argentina. Obama walked with his wife, Michelle, his two daughters and his mother-in-law down the tarmac at Buenos Aires’ Ezeiza […]
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Canada allows French beef imports to continue after mad cow case
OTTAWA, (APP/AFP): Canada will refrain from banning French beef imports even though a case of mad cow disease was confirmed at a farm in the European country, Ottawa said Thursday. The decision came after the French Ministry of Agriculture said a lone case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), or mad cow disease, was found in […]
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Kerry says US, Russia want new Syrian constitution by August
MOSCOW, (APP/AFP): US Secretary of State John Kerry said Thursday that Washington and Moscow had agreed to aim at having a new draft consitution for Syria drawn up by August, after over four hours of talks with President Vladimir Putin. “We agreed on a target schedule for establishing a framework for a political transition and […]
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Former US student pleads guilty to putting noose on campus statue
MIAMI, (APP/AFP): A former University of Mississippi student pleaded guilty Thursday to placing a noose around a statue of a civil rights icon, admitting he knew it would intimidate African-Americans, the Justice Department said. Austin Reed Edenfield, who was 19 at the time of the 2014 incident on campus, faces up to a year in […]