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French authorities said Thursday that more than 150 migrants trying to reach Britain had been rescued from overloaded boats in the Strait of Dover and returned to France. “Two migrant vessels in trouble” in the English Channel strait…
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All 120 workers on board a Nile cruise ship that partially sank after it collided with a bridge have been rescued. The collision caused a hole in the lower right side of the Tivoli Nile ship in Minya Governorate in Upper Egypt, officials…
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During the past 24 hours, social media activists in China circulated a breathtaking video clip of the rescue of a child who was trapped in a fire in his home. …
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More than 400 migrants have been rescued from a boat off Malta after an 11-hour operation, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said Wednesday after its ship responded to a distress alert. While heading to shelter in the Mediterranean due to…
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Thirty people are missing and 17 were rescued in the central Mediterranean on Sunday after the boat in which they were traveling from Libya capsized in bad weather, Italy’s coast guard said. Rescue operations were ongoing, supported by…
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At least 14 Africans died and 54 were rescued when a boat in which they were trying to reach Europe sank off the coast of Tunisia, the Tunisian National Guard said Thursday. The 14 bodies were recovered overnight in the Mediterranean Sea…
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A polar bear roaming around an Arctic outpost in northern Russia has been rescued after getting its tongue caught in a can of condensed milk. Residents of the remote settlement of Dikson sounded the alarm when the stricken 2-year-old…
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An Indian man narrowly escaped death after getting stuck on the railway tracks while the train was just seconds from passing a station in India, but two men working in the protection unit managed to save him at a crucial moment.…
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Rescue teams pulled two men out of a huge bowl of chocolate and took them to the hospital, after they mysteriously fell inside a Mars chocolate factory. The accident occurred on Thursday afternoon, at a factory belonging to the giant…
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More than 100 German school children and teachers had to be rescued, most of them airlifted to safety, after getting stuck on an Alpine hiking trail, described online as a “classic after-work tour,” police said Wednesday. Dozens of…
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