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Byline: ASHLEY JOANNOU; THE CANADIAN PRESS A British Columbia First Nation says at least 55 children died or disappeared while attending a residential school near Williams Lake, more than triple [...]

Byline: MARIYA POSTELNYAK, FATIMA RAZA Markham, Ont., realtor Yuk-Ying (Anita) Mui, whose mysterious disappearance on Aug. 9 has baffled police and colleagues, was a high-flying agent celebrated among her firm's [...]

A former security services official is charged with helping to abduct three men in Minsk in 1999. He's being tried in Switzerland under universal jurisdiction. A former member of the [...]

Byline: the Monitor's Editorial Board Abstract: The first official plan to search for those Chileans who disappeared during the country's dictatorship strengthens the role of truth in how post-conflict nations [...]

Byline: Oscar Lopez and Mary Beth Sheridan MEXICO CITY - International investigators seeking to wrap up an exhaustive investigation into Mexico's biggest human-rights scandal - the disappearance of 43 students [...]

KHERSON, Ukraine -- The jailhouse near the Dnipro River where the Russians imprisoned and tortured hundreds of Ukrainians sits empty now. Many of its inmates were freed when Ukraine's forces [...]

The Mexican authorities say Tomás Zerón tortured witnesses and tampered with evidence in a crucial investigation into the 2014 disappearance of 43 students. TEL AVIV -- A former Mexican official [...]

Vatican officials said they would reopen a cold case that has gripped Italians, spawned countless theories and been the subject of a Netflix documentary series. ROME -- Four decades after [...]

An international panel said it had found numerous inconsistencies in evidence presented by the government's truth commission on the disappearance of the 43 students in 2014. MEXICO CITY -- An [...]

Byline: Kevin Sieff MEXICO CITY - Mexico has arrested an Army general accused of involvement in the deaths of the 43 students who disappeared on their way to a demonstration [...]

Byline: GEOFFREY YORK; Staff JOHANNESBURG -- A year after the mysterious disappearance of Rwandan poet Innocent Bahati, hundreds of writers around the world - including Margaret Atwood and Michael Ondaatje [...]

A deathbed statement by a man who claimed to have buried Hoffa's body, repeated years later by his son, sent the F.B.I. to Jersey City for a ''site survey.'' It's [...]

Byline: Meryl Kornfield and María Luisa Paúl Investigators have identified the remains of Brian Laundrie, whose fiancee Gabby Petito was found dead after he returned home alone from the couple's [...]

Byline: Meryl Kornfield and María Luisa Paúl Investigators on Thursday identified the remains of Brian Laundrie, ending a weeks-long manhunt for the 23-year-old that drew nationwide attention following the death [...]

The 22-year-old's remains were found last month in a national forest in Wyoming, the F.B.I. said. The police continue to search for her fiancé, Brian Laundrie. Gabrielle Petito, the Florida [...]

MERRIJIG, Australia -- A blanket of fog hanging before him, Lachlan Culican saddled up his horse one autumn morning and set off into the remote high country of southern Australia [...]

Byline: Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani ABUJA, Nigeria - Her last sighting of her son was in a photo on social media. His eyes were shut. His face was covered in blood. [...]

Byline: Ana Vanessa Herrero Juan Esteban Torres left his home on the afternoon of May 18 to join an anti-government protest in Caldas, Colombia. Millions across the country had taken [...]

The young woman wished for a better life for her two children and the man she called ''Prince Charming.'' She yearned to escape the poverty and misfortune that had afflicted [...]

William Heiser Jr. said his father had told him and his sister that their mother, Marie Heiser, had ''just packed up her stuff and left.'' One day, about a half-century [...]

Byline: Sarah Dadouch The mysterious disappearance last month of a Saudi dissident living in Montreal after visiting the kingdom's embassy in Ottawa has sent fear rippling across Canada's community of [...]

The police seize and kill young men in Nigeria. Then pastors, lawyers and so-called human rights advocates squeeze money out of their families, promising to help find them. AWKA, Nigeria [...]

Shepherd Bushiri, the founder of a megachurch in South Africa, fled to his home country, Malawi, amid fraud and money laundering charges, leaving the two nations to argue over his [...]

Byline: Jaclyn Peiser Early on Tuesday, Phil Harvey and his wife gathered a group of mountain rescuers and camera crews at the Tan Hill Inn pub in northeast England to [...]

Byline: GEOFFREY YORK, Staff JOHANNESBURG -- Lead Richard Lokeya, a Canadian law student who had once been a child refugee, thought he had finally reached safety when he and two [...]

Mubarak Bala, head of the Humanist Association of Nigeria, was seized by the police and has disappeared in custody. Other Nigerian nonbelievers fear more detentions are coming. DAKAR, Senegal -- [...]

Byline: Alex Horton Since the remains of Pvt. Gregory Wedel-Morales were discovered in a shallow grave outside Fort Hood last month, the mystery of his disappearance has only intensified. The [...]

The identification of one victim's remains is the first sign of progress in years in a case that traumatized Mexico and became a symbol of corruption and injustice. MEXICO CITY [...]

Byline: Karla Adam and Loveday Morris LONDON - German prosecutors said Thursday they believe that Madeleine McCann, a long-missing British girl, is dead, and police appealed to the public for [...]

German authorities are investigating a 43-year-old sex offender in connection with the disappearance of the 3-year-old girl from a hotel room in Portugal 13 years ago. BERLIN -- After more [...]

BRIDGETON, N.J. -- A mother refused to let her 13-year-old daughter walk alone to the convenience store just two minutes away. A father barricaded his front porch with chairs to [...]

Byline: Marisa Iati Rain fell, clouds hung low in the sky and the air was choppy when Cokie Roberts' father boarded a plane in 1972 to campaign in Alaska for [...]

HONG KONG -- A Taiwanese man who disappeared during a visit to China is being investigated for suspected activities that ''endanger national security,'' the Chinese authorities said on Wednesday, the [...]

The estranged husband of a missing Connecticut woman was believed to have carried her body from her home in her own car hours after she was last seen alive, the [...]

Byline: Mary Beth Sheridan MEXICO CITY - For years, Mexican newspapers have carried chilling tales of mothers searching for their missing children and discovering hidden graves. Now, for the first [...]

HONG KONG -- China has detained an employee of the British Consulate in Hong Kong after he crossed the border into the mainland, his family and his girlfriend said, raising [...]

Byline: Gerry Shih BEIJING - The British government said Tuesday it is 'extremely concerned' by the disappearance of an employee in its Hong Kong consulate who was reportedly detained while [...]

GATINEAU, Quebec -- The widespread killings and disappearances of Indigenous women and girls in Canada are a ''genocide'' for which Canada itself is responsible, a national inquiry concluded in its [...]