repatriation

This is not the first time that dead bodies have been repatriated in this conflict - thousands have already been exchanged in more than 70 separate repatriations.

Last week, Moscow and Kyiv accused each other of disrupting the planned repatriation of the bodies of dead soldiers.

He’d distanced himself from his parents’ communist sympathies, disapproving of their repatriation to North Korea, opting instead for an academic career in the U.S.

Prof Tom Gillingwater, Edinburgh University's chairman of anatomy said repatriations were an important part of efforts to care for historical collections.

Details of the prisoner transfer agreement were not immediately clear but the State Department said it was aware of the repatriation done in collaboration with the US embassy in Kinshasa, the DR Congo capital.