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Body of Indian Mission Officer in Chattogram Handed Over After Autopsy

Investigators report no clear signs of foul play pending the final report.

Odisha Man Brings Exhumed Sister’s Remains to Bank to Access Her Savings

Kentucky Enacts Law Requiring Contact With Religious Groups Before Cremating Unclaimed Bodies

China Bans Using Homes to Store Human Ashes

Special Kuwait Airways Flight Brings 20 Bodies to Kochi After War-Linked Delays

Saxony Sends Funeral Law Overhaul to Hearing With New Burial Options

Hopkinsville Woman Charged in Alleged Desecration of Family Member’s Grave in Crofton

Monheim Cemetery Desecration Leaves 151 Graves Ransacked as Two Held in Dutch Border Stop

Man Accused of Plundering Mount Moriah Cemetery Held on $1 Million Bail After 100+ Skulls Found

Family Will Keep Ingrid van Bergen’s Urn Using Swiss Workaround to German Burial Law

Brandenburg Weighs Burial Law Rethink After Rheinland-Pfalz Eases Rules

Rhineland-Palatinate Opens Permits for First River Burials in Germany

Dahlmeier Body Recovery Called Off After On-Site Reassessment

Hull Daily Mail Publishes Weekly Death Notices for August 27, 2025

DNA Solves 1866 Cold Case of Skull Found in Illinois Wall

NYC Funeral Home Sued for Sending Woman's Body to Wrong Country