Authorities in Barbados are still trying to discover how a boat carrying the bodies of 11 men was found adrift off the Barbadian coast a month ago. Police believe the men were mostly from Senegal after finding an Air Senegal ticket on board and a note left by one of the dying men. In the note, the man speaks of his family in Bassada, Senegal. "Please excuse me and goodbye", he says. It is thought the men were attempting to reach Spain's Canary Islands. Coastguards brought the 20ft (6m) unmarked boat into port at Bridgetown after the gruesome discovery was made by a local fisherman in April. ... http://news.bbc.co.uk censor News |
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Bodies of 2 Marines Recovered in Iraq |
| The bodies of two U.S. Marines missing after a helicopter crashed in western Iraq over the weekend have been recovered, the military said Tuesday. The U.S. Marine Corps AH-1 Cobra helicopter from 3rd Marine Air.. full News |
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HIV infections 'may have peaked' |
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Israeli body-snatching case fuels religious divide |
| Israeli police said on Tuesday they had given up searching for the corpse of a baby girl snatched by ultra-Orthodox Jews who opposed her autopsy on the grounds that it was a desecration of the dead.Authorities .. full News |
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EU: US access to flight data unlawful |
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The truth uncovered Grieving parents persuaded the Canadian PM to allow the arrival of coffins from Afghanistan to be filmed |
| The Canadian prime minister, Stephen Harper, has backed down from an American-style policy that forbade the media from covering the return of the coffins of soldiers killed in Afghanistan. It didn't seem to bot.. full News |
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