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DUBLIN -- A mass grave containing the remains of babies and young children has been discovered at a former Catholic orphanage in Ireland, government-appointed investigators announced Friday in a finding that offered the first conclusive proof following a historianrsquo efforts to trace the fates of nearly 800 children who perished there.The judge-led Mother and Baby adidas samba og Homes Commission said excav nike sb dunk ations since November at the site of the former Bon Secours Mother and Baby Home in Tuam, County Galway, had found an underground structure divided into 20 chambers containing ldquo ignificant quantities of human remains.The commission said DNA analysis of selected remains confirmed the ages of the dead ranged from 35 weeks to 3 years old and were buried chiefly in the 1950s, when the overcrowded facility was one of more than a dozen in Ireland offering shelter to orphans, unwed mothers and their children. The Tuam home closed in 1961.The history of unwed mothers forced into hard labor is a well-documented dark chapter in Irish history. Magdalen laundries: Women confined in convents 13:39 For nearly four decades, thousands of these fa asics outlets llen women toiled at the place in Tuam, called simply, the Home, to atone for having out-of-wedlock children. While many of the wome Qoqq U.N. chief says situation in Syria intolerable
Anti-war demonstrators turned out in the thousands from South Korea to Chile on Saturday, spattering streets with paint, jeering outside U.S. embassies and in one case forming a 31-mile human chain.More than 100,000 people protested in strongly anti-war Germany, half of them at a rally in Berlin, where banners in the crowd read Stop America s Ter stanley cup ror. About 30,000 people held hands along the 31 miles between the northwestern cities of Muenster and Osnabrueck, a route used by negotiators who brought the Thirty Years War to an end in 1648.Hundreds of women, some carrying placards declaring the United States and Britain are the axis of evil, protested in San a, Yemen. Elsewhere in the Arab world, 10,000 turned out at a rally organized by Egypt s ruling party in Port Said, and in Amman, Jordan, more than 3,000 people demanded the kingdom s government expel U.S. troops.CBS Newsman Charles D Agata says it s an indication of how the Jordanian government is trying to keep a lid on a population that is totally against the war. From the middle of the throng, he estimated the crowd to be in the thousands, perhaps tens of thousands, but said he could not spot any riot police. Irbid is about 80 minutes north of the capital, Amman. In Stuttgart, Germany, about 6,000 protesters encircled the U.S. military s European Command, releasing blue balloons adorned with white doves as t stanley deutschland hey joined hand stanley fr s to form a chain. Farther north, police detained 100 demonstrators taking part in a sit-d
DUBLIN -- A mass grave containing the remains of babies and young children has been discovered at a former Catholic orphanage in Ireland, government-appointed investigators announced Friday in a finding that offered the first conclusive proof following a historianrsquo efforts to trace the fates of nearly 800 children who perished there.The judge-led Mother and Baby adidas samba og Homes Commission said excav nike sb dunk ations since November at the site of the former Bon Secours Mother and Baby Home in Tuam, County Galway, had found an underground structure divided into 20 chambers containing ldquo ignificant quantities of human remains.The commission said DNA analysis of selected remains confirmed the ages of the dead ranged from 35 weeks to 3 years old and were buried chiefly in the 1950s, when the overcrowded facility was one of more than a dozen in Ireland offering shelter to orphans, unwed mothers and their children. The Tuam home closed in 1961.The history of unwed mothers forced into hard labor is a well-documented dark chapter in Irish history. Magdalen laundries: Women confined in convents 13:39 For nearly four decades, thousands of these fa asics outlets llen women toiled at the place in Tuam, called simply, the Home, to atone for having out-of-wedlock children. While many of the wome Qoqq U.N. chief says situation in Syria intolerable
Anti-war demonstrators turned out in the thousands from South Korea to Chile on Saturday, spattering streets with paint, jeering outside U.S. embassies and in one case forming a 31-mile human chain.More than 100,000 people protested in strongly anti-war Germany, half of them at a rally in Berlin, where banners in the crowd read Stop America s Ter stanley cup ror. About 30,000 people held hands along the 31 miles between the northwestern cities of Muenster and Osnabrueck, a route used by negotiators who brought the Thirty Years War to an end in 1648.Hundreds of women, some carrying placards declaring the United States and Britain are the axis of evil, protested in San a, Yemen. Elsewhere in the Arab world, 10,000 turned out at a rally organized by Egypt s ruling party in Port Said, and in Amman, Jordan, more than 3,000 people demanded the kingdom s government expel U.S. troops.CBS Newsman Charles D Agata says it s an indication of how the Jordanian government is trying to keep a lid on a population that is totally against the war. From the middle of the throng, he estimated the crowd to be in the thousands, perhaps tens of thousands, but said he could not spot any riot police. Irbid is about 80 minutes north of the capital, Amman. In Stuttgart, Germany, about 6,000 protesters encircled the U.S. military s European Command, releasing blue balloons adorned with white doves as t stanley deutschland hey joined hand stanley fr s to form a chain. Farther north, police detained 100 demonstrators taking part in a sit-d