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Colorado Shuts Down Funeral Home Operated By Body Parts Broker
Colorado officials indefinitely shut down the funeral home and crematory this week of a woman who runs a side business selling donated body parts from the same building.
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US Body Brokers Supply World With Torsos, Limbs And Heads Of Dead Bodies
On July 20, a Hong Kong-flagged cargo ship departed Charleston, South Carolina carrying thousands of containers. One of them held a lucrative commodity: body parts from dozens of dead Americans.
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Body Broker Who Sold Diseased Remains Is Convicted Of Fraud
A Detroit businessman who sold and leased donated body parts for two decades was convicted Monday of defrauding medical customers by selling them diseased human remains.
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Bar Council Team Meets Chief Justice of India To Mend Rift: 10 Points
A team from the Bar Council of India - the regulatory body of lawyers - met with Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra as part of its efforts to resolve the unprecedented crisis that hit the judiciary after four most senior judges of the Supreme Court took him on in public on Friday. Bar Council chairperson Manan Kumar Mishra said the matter will be r...
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Body Broker Stacked HIV Infected 'Human Heads' In Warehouse Of Horrors
When US authorities arrested Arthur Rathburn last year, they hailed their investigation as a milestone in efforts to police a growing industry: brokers who acquire bodies donated to science, dissect them and sell or lease the parts for profit.
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Congress ministers fail to broker peace with DMK over Sri Lanka
The Prime Minister's fragile coalition is under new pressure. Senior partner DMK has threatened to withdraw its five ministers this week from the cabinet unless India asks the UN's top human rights body to hold Sri Lanka accountable for "genocide." Later this month, the UN's top human rights body will vote on a resolution by the US which criticizes...
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Trio of ministers meet Karunanidhi to broker peace over Sri Lanka
The Centre is under extreme pressure to vote against Sri Lanka on March 21, when the United Nations' top human rights body meets in Geneva. The US is moving a resolution that is expected to criticize Sri Lanka for alleged war crimes and human rights violations by its defence forces in the final phases of the civil war against the Tamil Tigers which...
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Gill turns peace broker between CGF, Kalmadi
Sports Minister MS Gill will attempt to resolve a bitter dispute between the 2010 Commonwealth Games Organisers and its parent body in London later this week amid indications that both the warring parties would try to work out a compromise.
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Colorado Shuts Down Funeral Home Operated By Body Parts Broker
Colorado officials indefinitely shut down the funeral home and crematory this week of a woman who runs a side business selling donated body parts from the same building.
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US Body Brokers Supply World With Torsos, Limbs And Heads Of Dead Bodies
On July 20, a Hong Kong-flagged cargo ship departed Charleston, South Carolina carrying thousands of containers. One of them held a lucrative commodity: body parts from dozens of dead Americans.
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Body Broker Who Sold Diseased Remains Is Convicted Of Fraud
A Detroit businessman who sold and leased donated body parts for two decades was convicted Monday of defrauding medical customers by selling them diseased human remains.
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Bar Council Team Meets Chief Justice of India To Mend Rift: 10 Points
A team from the Bar Council of India - the regulatory body of lawyers - met with Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra as part of its efforts to resolve the unprecedented crisis that hit the judiciary after four most senior judges of the Supreme Court took him on in public on Friday. Bar Council chairperson Manan Kumar Mishra said the matter will be r...
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Body Broker Stacked HIV Infected 'Human Heads' In Warehouse Of Horrors
When US authorities arrested Arthur Rathburn last year, they hailed their investigation as a milestone in efforts to police a growing industry: brokers who acquire bodies donated to science, dissect them and sell or lease the parts for profit.
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Congress ministers fail to broker peace with DMK over Sri Lanka
The Prime Minister's fragile coalition is under new pressure. Senior partner DMK has threatened to withdraw its five ministers this week from the cabinet unless India asks the UN's top human rights body to hold Sri Lanka accountable for "genocide." Later this month, the UN's top human rights body will vote on a resolution by the US which criticizes...
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Trio of ministers meet Karunanidhi to broker peace over Sri Lanka
The Centre is under extreme pressure to vote against Sri Lanka on March 21, when the United Nations' top human rights body meets in Geneva. The US is moving a resolution that is expected to criticize Sri Lanka for alleged war crimes and human rights violations by its defence forces in the final phases of the civil war against the Tamil Tigers which...
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Gill turns peace broker between CGF, Kalmadi
Sports Minister MS Gill will attempt to resolve a bitter dispute between the 2010 Commonwealth Games Organisers and its parent body in London later this week amid indications that both the warring parties would try to work out a compromise.
