13 h. ago From swim schools to eye clinics: how families of 7/7 victims used heartbreak to help others

Relatives tell of their determination to see good come from the killing of their loved ones in 2005 London bombingsIn the city of Bhubaneswar, the capital of the north-east Indian state of Odisha, there is an eye clinic that has transformed the lives of thousands of children.Before the unit was established in 2008, according to its vice-chair, there was no dedicated children’s eye care centre in the entire eastern part of India, a country home to 20% of the world’s blind children. The clinic now sees about 3,000 children a month and performs 350 eye surgeries – a significant proportion of them at no cost to the often very poor families who need them. Continue reading...

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57 h. ago Air India accused of mistreating families of victims after Ahmedabad crash

Airline denies allegations by British lawyer as ‘unsubstantiated and inaccurate’

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3 d. ago Air India accused of pressuring families of crash victims to sign compensation papers disclosing 'financial dependency' to deceased

Questionnaire sent by Air India and seen by The Standard asks recipients to disclose whether they were ‘financially dependent’ on the deceased

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3 d. ago Air India accused of pressuring families of Ahmedabad crash victims to sign compensation papers disclosing 'financial dependency' to deceased

Exclusive: The airline has been accused of hounding out relatives of passengers killed in the Gatwick-bound flight so they could underpay them

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3 d. ago I was feet away as Bryan Kohberger admitted to four brutal murders. It was chilling how normal it all seemed to him

More than two years after Bryan Kohberger slaughtered four college students at their home in Moscow, Idaho, he stood in front of the victims’ families and for the first time, admitted to the heinous murders. Andrea Cavallier reports on the feeling inside the Idaho courtroom.

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3 d. ago Bryan Kohberger's plea deal splits Idaho apart... as judge scolds people trying to sway his mind

Two families have slammed the deal for allowing him to avoid the death penalty, while the other two breathed a sigh of relief that the case never has to go to trial.

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3 d. ago Idaho murder victim families frustrated at not being consulted in Kohberger plea deal

Steve Gonvalves, father of Idaho murder victim Kaylee Goncalves, spoke to the press outside of the Idaho courthouse after a plea deal was offered and accepted by Bryan Kohberger on Monday.

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3 d. ago Bryan Kohberger plea deal splits victims’ families after former PhD student admits brutal murders of Idaho students: Live

Kohberger will avoid the death penalty after pleading guilty to the murders of four University of Idaho students in November 2022

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4 d. ago Air India 'bullying' families of Ahmedabad crash victims to sign compensation papers disclosing 'financial dependency' to deceased

Exclusive: The airline has been accused of hounding out relatives of passengers killed in the Gatwick-bound flight so they could underpay them

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4 d. ago Bryan Kohberger plea deal updates: Idaho victims’ families arrive at court as murder suspect set to plead guilty

Kohberger is expected to avoid the death penalty after being accused of fatally stabbing four University of Idaho students in November 2022

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5 d. ago Why families of Bryan Kohberger’s alleged victims might never find out what really happened the night of the murders

The families of the slain Idaho University students will likely never hear an explanation from Bryan Kohberger, according to a trial attorney

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5 d. ago Insulting detail in Bryan Kohberger's shock plea deal that has infuriated Idaho murders victims' families

The families of slain University of Idaho students were left infuriated on Monday, as prosecutors offered accused killer Bryan Kohberger a plea deal.

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8 d. ago Families of Scots Chinook helicopter crash victims press on with MoD legal case

The RAF chopper crashed on the Mull of Kintyre in 1994.

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8 d. ago Ministry of Defence accused of 'deceiving' Chinook crash victim families in legal fight update

The RAF Chinook ZD576 crashed in foggy weather on June 2, 1994 on the Mull of Kintyre.

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8 d. ago Families of Chinook crash victims press on with legal action against MoD

The RAF aircraft crashed carrying 25 British intelligence personnel crashed on the Mull of Kintyre in 1994.

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2 w. ago Family of Kory McCrimmon vow 'enough is enough' at Glasgow march against knife crime

Hundreds turned out to support the McCrimmon family and families of other victims who have lost loved ones to violent crime.

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2 w. ago All Air India crash victims as families still not reunited with loved ones' bodies

A week on from the catastrophic Air India plane crash, the families of some UK victims are still waiting for answers about when their loved ones will be returned to them

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2 w. ago All Air India UK crash victims whose desperate families are waiting for answers

The Air India Flight 171 disaster is the most deadly aviation incident involving British nationals since 9/11.

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2 w. ago Air India crash: All UK victims whose desperate families are waiting for answers

The Air India Flight 171 disaster is the most deadly aviation incident involving British nationals since 9/11 - here's all the known UK victims as families continue to wait for answers

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2 w. ago Possible Air India crash cause revealed by investigators in huge breakthrough

It comes after British families of crash victims were said to be facing 'pain and frustration' over delays in the identification and repatriation of their relatives.

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