disappearance
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The disappearance of handicrafts, "a symbol of Mexico," would be a blow to the country's heritage, she argued.
From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2026
A team has travelled to Nikumaroro Island, part of Kiribati, hoping to solve the mystery of the famed aviator's disappearance by investigating the so-called Taraia Object, spotted in the atoll's lagoon in aerial imagery.
From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026
Karpenko instructed her to wait two days and then call Stupnikov’s military base, to report his disappearance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
Their relatively rapid disappearance can also limit how long a treatment remains effective.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026
He was faking his disappearance, and the challenge would be to find him, similar to the online murder mystery he’d planned two Halloweens ago.
From "Book Scavenger" by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman
As Béatrice’s amateur detective work pulls her in deeper, the strands begin to suggest a conspiracy, one marked by mysterious disappearances and the clandestine sway of the Vatican.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
The surfers' disappearances and deaths sparked widespread outrage and grief in Australia and the United States, prompting a major social media search for their bodies.
From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026
Satluj is inspired by the life of human rights activist Jaswant Singh Khalra, who investigated allegations of enforced disappearances and extrajudicial killings during Punjab's separatist insurgency - and then he himself disappeared.
From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026
Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum has focused on distinguishing between disappearances committed by organized crime and those forced by state agents.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 10, 2026
Their disappearances were phenomenons that happened every time Hyacinth gave Franz a bath.
From "The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street" by Karina Yan Glaser
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