" But Ms. Dollberg praised the rescue operation: "The crew, the Norwegian people and the rescue operation have been stellar.
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Two people died in a rescue operation by Kenyan forces.
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Johnathan Wojtewicz (right) holds a boy during a rescue operation.
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The search and rescue operation was headed by Cleveland police.
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In other towns and villages the rescue operation wound down.
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All five attackers were killed during the police rescue operation.
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Unsafe conditions in the raging river delayed the rescue operation.
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Sudantha Ranasinghe, who is in charge of the rescue operation.
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The search and rescue operation is now a recovery mission.
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Instead, he cast it as a rescue operation, requiring secrecy.
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We are focusing on the rescue operation at the moment.
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DxE and Hsiung took full responsibility for the rescue operation.
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It added that a search and rescue operation is underway.
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The precise time frame for a rescue operation remained unclear, however.
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Narongsak Osatanakorn said Tuesday&aposs rescue operation began at 10.08 a.m.
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Kendall and Kylie Jenner recently documented their Fashion Week rescue operation.
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Army personnel have been deployed to help in the rescue operation.
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The 800-person rescue operation was finished at about 1 a.m.
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The bottom image seemingly depicts swimmers training for a rescue operation.
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"The extent of this rescue operation is simply unbelievable," said Col.
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Five days later the search and rescue operation was called off.
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Fishing vessels assisted the search and rescue operation which lasted hours.
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Sudantha Ranasinghe, the commanding officer in charge of the rescue operation.
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After every rescue operation, a sense of relief fills the crews.
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Thai Navy SEAL divers became the faces of the rescue operation.
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Two policemen and a villager were injured in the rescue operation.
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Firefighters found her dead inside the house during the rescue operation.
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ET, speculation was heightening about the imminent start of a rescue operation.
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Libyan Coast Guard attack on Sea-Watch rescue operation causes multiple dead.
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The rescue operation could last more than two days, state TV said.
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At least two dozen fire trucks were deployed in the rescue operation.
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A search-and-rescue operation was launched involving land and air teams.
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The navy has begun a search-and-rescue operation, Captain Sharma said.
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The rescue operation, which began on Thursday afternoon, involved helicopters and soldiers.
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In March, the European Union significantly limited its search and rescue operation.
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They said a rescue operation was underway to find the missing 56.
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The military said in a statement it was conducting the rescue operation.
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" "The Coast Guard was notified and a search-and-rescue operation ensued.
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The search and rescue operation is now a recovery mission, she said.
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It received a mayday distress call and immediately commenced a rescue operation.
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Eyewitnesses told CNN that the rescue operation has now ceased for the day.
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As a result, no search and rescue operation was dispatched for several days.
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They are working with Thai navy SEALs, who are leading the rescue operation.
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People scrambled from the airport to the street and a rescue operation began.
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"The rescue operation for the two others is continuing," the coastguard official said.
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"Every single person who participated in this rescue operation is incredible," he wrote.
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A search and rescue operation is still underway, White told reporters Sunday morning.
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The rescue operation lasted more than five hours, from around 83:30 p.m.
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A rescue operation was underway to save the animals in the Black Sea.
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Another rescuer, former navy diver Sergeant Saman Kuman, died during the rescue operation.
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A rescue operation is underway to dig out people trapped in the debris.
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With the rescue operation over, questions have turned to why anyone would do this.
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That&aposs the type of thing that happens in a rescue operation like this.
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A dedicated search and rescue operation on the model of Mare Nostrum should restart.
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The standard narrative is that the rescue operation succeeded in stabilizing the financial system.
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Meanwhile, the Port Authority's pursuit escalated into a full blown search-and-rescue operation.
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A police spokesman told Reuters a search and rescue operation would continue on Tuesday.
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Rising floodwaters in the cave had stalled the search-and-rescue operation for days.
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Officials begged boat owners to pitch in with an enormous and frantic rescue operation.
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Habra's rescue operation was captured in social media video released by the White Helmets.
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On Friday, officials ended a search-and-rescue operation off the coast of Romania.
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A rescue operation involving emergency services and nearby residents saved two women and a child.
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The sole fatality of the rescue operation, former Thai navy SEAL Petty Officer Saman Gunan.
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After two weeks of working, there were bombings, and we responded to a rescue operation.
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He also questioned Unsworth's diving credentials and his level of involvement in the rescue operation.
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The Polish government said it would provide financial guarantees and support for the rescue operation.
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Footage released by the SEALs showed parts of the rescue operation that captivated the world.
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A search and rescue operation was underway to find the missing crane operator, it added.
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They live in Aruba and run an animal-rescue operation on the side called Sgt.
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Pandemonium punctuated the rescue operation, despite efforts by the Astral crew to calm the migrants.
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Moments later, another member of the rescue operation descended from the towering mound of rubble.
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A Times reporter, a former U.S. Navy diver, explained the difficulties of the rescue operation.
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JULY 3: The search becomes a rescue operation, but some warn it could take months.
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The rescue operation was launched on Sunday and four boys were brought out that day.
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Dozens of firefighters and divers, supported by three helicopters, were called into the rescue operation.
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They then brought the sub to Thailand in the hopes of assisting the rescue operation.
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An Italian navy helicopter took part in the rescue operation, helping ferry survivors to safety.
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He has let it be known he is closely monitoring the search and rescue operation.
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From our reporter on the scene: the full story of the daring, desperate rescue operation.
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A search and rescue operation was launched on January 26 -- eight days after the ferry departed.
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Despite his trauma, he had to realize that desertion would jeopardize those attempting a rescue operation.
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The rescue operation was suspended late on Sunday but will resume on Monday morning, officials said.
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With that rescue operation completed, the Maidenhead office could begin bringing Maersk's core services back online.
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Any rescue operation will be hampered by the dark, which falls early in the tropical archipelago.
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INEM said a rescue operation was under way but the helicopter had still not been found.
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The Navy announced it was suspending the search-and-rescue operation for missing sailors on Thursday.
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More than 70,000 military, police and firefighters have fanned out to help with the rescue operation.
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The injured have been taken to hospital, he said, adding a rescue operation was under way.
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They called off the rescue operation last week and shifted focus to recovering the wayward vessel.
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Chief inspector of mines Iftikhar Ahmad said the rescue operation overnight pulled out 11 injured miners.
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Heavy rains had previously hampered the rescue operation, as the caves became extremely dark and muddy.
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A police inspector said that at least five militants had been killed in the rescue operation.
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They join the 80 already involved in the rescue operation comprising active, reserve and former SEALs.
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"I call him the hero of Tham Luang Cave," the chief of the rescue operation said.
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Narongsak Osottanakorn told a news conference the latest rescue operation began at about 10:08 a.m.
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The mother of the child, Shadow Lantry, recorded the rescue operation and posted it on Facebook.
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The authorities said it was most likely the largest peacetime maritime rescue operation in Australia's history.
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Now, what had been a search-and-rescue operation authorities is a search-and-recovery undertaking.
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The soccer team's rescue operation drew global media attention and hundreds of journalists to the scene.
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Beirut contracted a blood infection during the rescue operation at Tham Luang cave in northern Thailand.
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Thailand's military junta organized a remarkable 18-day search and rescue operation that captivated the world.
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We're told Paul's animal rescue operation -- with mini-horses, donkeys and alpacas -- will be prominently featured.
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A rescue operation was launched late on Saturday when the helicopter went missing around 6:30 p.m.
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There was also a tribute to the Thai Navy SEAL diver who died in their rescue operation.
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Details about other fatalities or injuries from the attack or the rescue operation were not immediately available.
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The chief of the rescue operation also said that Musk's submarine was "not practical" for the mission.
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The CIA said Affleck took creative liberties with some of the dramatic scenes about the rescue operation.
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On Easter Sunday, although overloaded with 450 migrants, we headed to the scene of another rescue operation.
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Saman Kunan, a former Thai Navy SEAL who died during the cave rescue operation on July 6.
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So this announcement of his resignation is simply part of the rescue operation for a dying system.
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Italy didn't deploy a ship, deferring to Libya, which might have delayed the rescue operation by hours.
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Mr. Narongsak, commander of the rescue operation, said it could take days to recover the full team.
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Authorities were unable to save him despite a three-day rescue operation involving more than 500 people.
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The toll included four soldiers trapped by a landslide during a rescue operation in Rangamati, he added.
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A helicopter and three boats were involved in the search-and-rescue operation off the Kent coast.
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It currently has 600,000 people abroad, forcing governments and insurance companies to coordinate a huge rescue operation.
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Egypt's military said its coastguard had busted a people-trafficking operation and led a life-saving rescue operation.
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The rescue operation was hampered by deep snow which has fallen on the Gran Sasso in recent days.
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Reuters quoted officials as saying the evacuation was being done so that a "rescue operation" could take place.
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Images of the site showed an excavator digging into the debris during the ongoing search and rescue operation.
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In total, more than 50 international divers and 40 Thai divers have taken part of the rescue operation.
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The search and rescue operation has involved dozens of international experts and rescuers, including a U.S. military team.
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That delay in starting the search and rescue operation resulted in significant loss of life, the commission found.
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Singapore's Maritime and Port Authority said the multi-agency search and rescue operation was suspended from 9 p.m.
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The debacle began during a Thai rescue operation, when a group of boys were trapped in a cave.
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More than 250 law enforcement and military personnel helped in the large search-and-rescue operation, police said.
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The Taoyuan City fire department deployed 23 vehicles and 60 firefighters to join the firefighting and rescue operation.
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A rescue operation was underway and the exact number of people trapped had yet to ascertained, he said.
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Emergency workers came across the tin cans during the rescue operation, Taiwan's state-owned Central News Agency reported.
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A rescue operation has been launched to find the Turkish nationals and arrest the kidnappers, the spokesman said.
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Survivors try to warm up at Kalymnos island after a rescue operation by the coast guard Friday, Jan.
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High levels of methane in the air in the area of the quake were hampering the rescue operation.
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But this mine does not have a map, said Shastri, who is in charge of the rescue operation.
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"While the rescue operation is ongoing, it may be that that death toll rises higher," he told Reuters.
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However, Narongsak Osatanakorn, who is heading up the rescue operation dismissed Musk's solution during a press conference Tuesday.
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One United States official said the C.I.A. played a role in the rescue operation but gave no details.
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By Tuesday, the rescue operation had succeeded in saving all 13 people trapped in the Tham Luang Cave.
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Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha visited them on Monday when he came to check on the rescue operation.
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Installing a communications line would facilitate any rescue operation and allow the boys to talk to their families.
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The coastguard launched a rescue operation after the teenagers raised the alarm with Kent Police at 21 p.m.
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Today's announcement represents Amoruso's second exit, though her first M&A deal was more of a rescue operation.
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It was the NY Fed's first such rescue operation in a decade, the last occurring in late 2008.
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Sunday night the sheriff's office said the search-and-rescue operation is now a search-and-recovery effort.
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Gautier's friends and relatives have also denounced the slowness of the rescue operation, saying more could have been done.
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Rescuers found the boys after 10 days and a multinational rescue operation to extract the boys is still ongoing.
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Not wanting the innocent animal to drown, the Navy launched a 12-hour rescue operation to save the elephant.
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Narongsak Osatanakorn, the official overseeing the rescue operation, said the boys should not be blamed for the near tragedy.
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During a search and rescue operation officials spotted the trio floating on a mass of packages of different sizes.
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Two days earlier, massive chunks of steel and concrete buried moving cars and pedestrians, prompting a frantic rescue operation.
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The civil protection service said that it had launched a search and rescue operation near the town of Mantoudi.
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The Thai government said Musk's team could help the rescue operation with location tracking, water pumping or battery power.
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After a second exchange of gunfire, Mateen didn't shoot for three hours until the hostage rescue operation took place.
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These included a bridge leading to Amatrice, which had to be closed on Friday, further complicating the rescue operation.
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The rescue operation was hampered by metres of snow which has fallen on the Gran Sasso in recent days.
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It's very important to understand that three years ago, [the Italian search-and-rescue operation] Mare Nostrum was created.
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The emergencies ministry said more than 900 people were carrying out the search and rescue operation at the site.
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Four terrorists were killed in the rescue operation, Florence Parly, the French minister for the armed forces, said Friday.
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It even passes on a percentage of proceeds from its sale of ranch dressing to an animal rescue operation.
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A search-and-rescue operation found the disabled submarine floating in Koge Bay, south of Copenhagen, the next morning.
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"We appreciate the Colombian Government's continued search-and-rescue operation in search of the missing American employee," they said.
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"The doctor was performing an emergency rescue operation to remove a blood clot that caused the bleeding," she said.
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In today's 360 video, join a search-and-rescue operation in India after an apartment building collapsed this week.
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The high death toll in the middle of a European capital has led to criticism of the rescue operation.
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By mid-day Wednesday, the rescue operation turned to a recovery effort as authorities said the attack was not survivable.
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The rescue operation there to save the boys and their soccer coach from a flooded cave is now on pause.
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With the sound of gunfire and explosions, local TV stations reported that the rescue operation began at 7:40 a.m.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi tweeted support for the rescue operation, saying "every effort" was being made to save the boy.
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Halfway through the rescue operation, the Libyan patrol arrived and threatened the crew for refusing to hand over the migrants.
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NDRF personnel douse the flames and conduct rescue operation at Pauri Garhwal District, on April 30, 2016 in Uttarakhand, India.
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Donna comes in in a rescue operation and finds gee whiz, guess what, this is being run out of Brooklyn.
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About 100 meters (328 feet) of the overpass buried moving cars and pedestrians, quickly setting off a frantic rescue operation.
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Any ships in the area of a plane crash typically respond to the call for a search and rescue operation.
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The station also posted raw video of a helicopter rescue operation in the area showing muddy water cascading over rock.
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The station also posted raw video of a helicopter rescue operation in the area showing muddy water cascading over rocks.
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A large-scale search and rescue operation found no survivors and at least 83 bodies were pulled from the sea.
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Major Saman Gunan -- died during the rescue operation last week while trying to forge the escape path for the boys.
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He added that the hostages were retrieved in a "rescue operation" and there was "no deal" with the Haqqani Network.
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A rescue operation is currently underway for tourists caught in landslides on Mount Rinjani, an area popular with hiking enthusiasts.
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Musk had inserted himself into the Thai rescue operation and offered to build a mini-submarine to fetch the boys.
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The death of Saman Kunan, a former Thai Navy SEAL, during the rescue operation even added an aura of sacrifice.
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No details were immediately available about the second boat, but a search-and-rescue operation was said to be underway.
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Vocations Kara Pollard, 33, is the executive director of Dog Is My CoPilot, an animal rescue operation in Jackson, Wyo.
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More than a half-dozen American and Yemeni officials described parts of the rescue operation on the condition of anonymity.
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Lacking armored vehicles, they had at first not been able to launch a rescue operation to retrieve the stranded soldiers.
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The rescue operation followed a massive police manhunt, Abeh said, adding that no ransom was paid for the foreigners' release.
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Those had to either be brought up by ropes or rappelling individuals from the fire department during the rescue operation.
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Thirty-five fire engines were at the site, and the rescue operation was continuing for some people feared trapped there.
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President Sebastian Pinera tweeted on Tuesday that he was conferring with security officials in Cerrillos to monitor the rescue operation.
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Chinese maritime authorities launched a search-and-rescue operation for the 30 Iranian and two Bangladeshi crew aboard the Sanchi.
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Employing 21,000, Thomas Cook currently has 600,000 travelers abroad, forcing governments and insurance companies to coordinate a huge rescue operation.
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Instead of running a rescue operation for farmers to sell their ugly produce, we should invest in switching to greenhouses.
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The five-day rescue operation came to an end Saturday afternoon after more than 100 searches covering nearly 34,000 square miles.
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And that Tim Burton and the team behind Batman: The Animated Series had helped to complete a much-needed rescue operation.
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It said SK E&C is focusing on the rescue operation, using boats and other equipment to search for missing people.
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The volunteer emergency medical service posted video of what it says shows its rescue operation amid the ruins of the mosque.
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After divers brought out four of the boys Monday evening, authorities indicated the rescue operation would continue for a third day.
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We just got word the next phase of the rescue operation will begin in about 10 to 12 hours from now.
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However, it was a close call for the four Thai Navy Seals who were inside the cave during the rescue operation.
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This search-and-rescue operation would not have been possible without the hundreds of personnel and volunteers who came to help.
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Any money raised above the medical bills will go to a dog rescue operation and other charities, according to the posts.
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Like most of the rescuers working in Orange, Moreau and Broussard weren't part of a highly organized search and rescue operation.
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"I was treated well during my kidnapping ... I thank the Sudanese civil and military forces for my rescue operation," Frezier said.
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Rescue workers make their way through floodwaters during a rescue operation after Super Typhoon Mangkhut passed through Macau on Sept. 16.
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India's Supreme Court on Friday ordered the federal government and Meghalaya to file a report by Monday on the rescue operation.
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Had the Israeli pilots bailed out over enemy territory and Israel launched a rescue operation, the conflict could quickly have escalated.
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"As soon as the report was made, the authorities were notified and a search and rescue operation ensued," the statement adds.
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Spencer Cannon said chances of finding DeDios alive were bleak but officials were not yet calling off their rescue operation yet.
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Gerald Olin, commander, Amphibious Squadron One and the on-scene commander of the search and rescue operation, said in a statement.
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A search and rescue operation led by FEMA had not found any Mexico Beach fatalities as of Friday morning, authorities said.
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The rescue operation Sunday comes amid mounting international concern about the safety of the group stuck deep in the flooded cave.
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A search and rescue operation is underway near Japan after two Marine aircraft were involved in a "mishap" off Japan's coast.
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After a search and rescue operation through the night, he was found dead just outside his property around noon on Tuesday.
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An American national, Guillermo Sobero, was beheaded while another American, Martin Burnham, was killed during a rescue operation a year later.
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This by-the-book new series follows Amanda Giese, whose dog-rescue operation focuses on canines with unusual and special needs.
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The trail rises and falls, and many sections are now submerged, said Mr. Unsworth, who is helping with the rescue operation.
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In the frantic confusion of the rescue operation, the crosscurrents of hundreds of well-meaning personnel sometimes led to frightening miscommunication.
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Soon, one of its generators failed and the Carolina Queen issued a desperate mayday, setting in motion a harrowing rescue operation.
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La David Johnson, was first unaccounted for and a search-and-rescue operation with U.S., French and Nigerien troops was launched.
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Etihad took a 49 percent stake after Alitalia had stumbled following a rescue operation by Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi in 2008.
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Bachelete also said she believes the European Union should create a search and rescue operation for migrants in the Mediterranean Sea.
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More than 200 firefighters joined the rescue operation and two helicopters landed on the nearby Place de l'Opera to evacuate victims.
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Last week, Narongsak Osottanakorn, the leader of the rescue operation in Thailand, rejected Musk's mini-submarine as not suitable for the task.
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Musk has offered a "kid-sized" submarine, named Wild Boar after the kids&apos soccer team, to help in the rescue operation.
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Musk had offered a "kid-sized" submarine, named Wild Boar after the kids&apos soccer team, to help in the rescue operation.
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A hose bringing him air had to be severed and a rescue operation had to be mounted to bring him back up.
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The rescue operation isn't officially over, as the doctor who was attending to them, plus three navy SEALS, have yet to emerge.
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A search and rescue operation involving boats and a helicopter was launched, but was suspended after several hours due to fading light.
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Authorities announced on Wednesday that workers were expecting to reach the boy by Friday – but technical challenges have slowed the rescue operation.
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Several of Clinton's close friends, recognizing what this train wreck might do to his promising career, quickly plotted out a rescue operation.
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Video posted by the Syrian Civil Defense, a volunteer search-and-rescue operation, showed responders digging through the rubble, searching for survivors.
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"It's chaos," says George Ruiz, a former Coast Guard rescue boat driver who runs Geaux Rescue, a nonprofit search and rescue operation.
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With all of those abilities, plus a camera, the researchers say it could be very useful in a search-and-rescue operation.
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Heavy fog in the region made the rescue operation for the Sikorsky S-70 Black Hawk helicopter difficult, Turkish media reports said.
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According to the Mao County Government Press Office 10 bodies had been recovered since the beginning of the rescue operation on Saturday.
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Dozens of officials from various federal and local authorities are conducting what the Coast Guard is still classifying as a rescue operation.
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"I don't think there will be any survivors," Major General Sudantha Ranasinghe, the officer in charge of the rescue operation, told Reuters.
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The rescue operation lasted two days and involved fire departments from the United States and Canada, and the United States Coast Guard.
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A search-and-rescue operation by US, French and Nigerian troops recovered his remains 48 hours after the attack by ISIS fighters.
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The 200-person rescue operation was earlier hampered by high levels of methane, which reached a concentration of up to 58 percent.
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It was my decision to cancel it when problems developed in the placement of our rescue team for a future rescue operation.
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Like other relatives of the missing group, Mr. Kham has been going to the cave every day to follow the rescue operation.
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A vast search and rescue operation is underway, with at least six people dead and 103 million homes and businesses without electricity.
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The visit by the prime minister was a reflection of how significant the search and rescue operation has become for the country.
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As the series resumes, a search-and-rescue operation begins after a boat that held three people is found capsized and empty.
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Though he claimed to have hurt himself in a rescue operation, he actually was injured after falling off a third-floor balcony.
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The center said on Twitter that the two other passengers were also presumed dead, and that the rescue operation had been halted.
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A large-scale search and rescue operation for the three missing children continued Wednesday, with about 80 people combing the surrounding area.
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The response Local residents and miners from the Aberfan colliery led the early rescue operation, helping to pull casualties from the wreckage.
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This coincided with the conclusion of the first phase of the rescue operation, with the final victim being found on October 28.
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The end of the rescue operation also brought an end to one creative scheme to save them: Elon Musk's "kid size" submarine.
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"Although [Musk's] technology is good and sophisticated, it's not practical for this mission," one of the rescue operation coordinators told the Guardian.
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A multiagency search and rescue operation was immediately launched, including emergency teams from Orleans, Barnstable County, State Police and the U.S. Coast Guard.
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"The rescue operation is very long and difficult," he told Reuters by telephone from the scene of the disaster in the Abruzzo region.
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Suwarni, whose 20-year-old son and his girlfriend were on the ferry, slammed the search and rescue operation as slow and insufficient.
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The airport said on its Twitter account no casualties were reported, adding a rescue operation was continuing and the airport was closed temporarily.
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A rescue operation at Bear Reservoir led to the discovery of skeletal remains, which a forensic autopsy identified as missing woman Carol Brown.
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At the start of the rescue operation, people began to work from its top-most point, winding their way down to the base.
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This rescue operation was headed up by Nicole Stundzia of Rochester, Minnesota, who has been helping protect animals since she was a child.
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At least six ships and a helicopter were engaged in a search and rescue operation, the emergency situations ministry said in a statement.
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The statement said a search-and-rescue operation launched after the plane&aposs disappearance has been suspended for the night and will resume.
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Thousands of people have been evacuated in what was most likely the largest peacetime maritime rescue operation in Australia's history, the authorities said.
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Their GPS failed them As the family was taking its chances on foot, authorities were mounting a multiagency rescue operation across three counties.
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"The rescue operation is continuing for the second day and military and rescue teams are removing the debris," police spokesman Priyantha Jayakody said.
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A journalist working for German RTL television said she had witnessed the rescue operation and praised the professionalism of the Libyan coast guards.
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A South African-led rescue operation by the South African Air Force and IPSS Medical Rescue managed to save 2000 survivors in Beira.
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In other words, it's hard to imagine BGP's modern successors carrying out the kind of rescue operation the authors managed a decade ago.
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A man holds himself on the side of a boat after jumping into the sea from a crowded wooden boat during the rescue operation.
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Hasnah said she has enough food and water but she's furious that a search and rescue operation in her area only began on Thursday.
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"Unfortunately it appears she caught onto a rock which came away and crushed her," he said, citing accounts from others in the rescue operation.
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"It's chaos," George Ruiz, a former Coast Guard rescue boat driver who runs the nonprofit search and rescue operation Geaux Rescue, previously told PEOPLE.
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The MV Aquarius rescue ship is seen as migrants are rescued by the SOS Mediterranée organization during a search and rescue operation last year.
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The Greek army deployed two aircraft, a frigate and two helicopters to the search and rescue operation 2224 nautical miles south-southeast of Karpathos.
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As a result of the pressure from American officials, the Pakistanis launched a rescue operation on October 11, 2017, freeing all five hostages unharmed.
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Lebanon was on the verge of the abyss, requiring "an unusual rescue operation, regardless of the price", said Geagea, who himself covets the presidency.
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New Zealand military officials said they were on target to evacuate about 200 people by helicopter on Tuesday as a major rescue operation unfolded.
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Meanwhile, Musk's attempt to insert himself in the rescue operation of the youth soccer team from a flooded cave in Thailand was widely panned.
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Taiwan's interior minister and other officials said they would open an investigation into the building's collapse when the rescue operation ends, according to CNA.
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The US Coast Guard called off its search and rescue operation on Tuesday morning, saying that it has found no indications of more survivors.
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Passengers shared images on social media of the rescue operation as emergency workers battled currents throughout the night to pull people from the car.
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Samarn, an emergency rescue worker at Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi Airport after he left the SEALs in 2006, joined the cave rescue operation on July 1.
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Two British divers found the 13 last Monday but the search and rescue operation has largely been driven by Thailand's elite navy SEAL unit.
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Deputy Emergencies Minister Alexander Chupriyan told Interfax there were no more bodies under the rubble and that the search and rescue operation was over.
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But Abdul Muin Paputungan, an official overseeing the rescue operation, later told The Associated Press that "signs of life" had faded after four days.
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Navy SEALs launched a rescue operation but came up empty; a tip about where the men were being held turned out to be outdated.
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This week, members of the Styles desk led a rescue operation involving a bird that was trapped in the atrium of The Times building.
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The boat sank six miles (10km) from the coastline near the city of Sfax, Houssem Jebabli told Reuters, adding that the rescue operation continued.
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Early Friday morning, her boyfriend reported her missing, and a search-and-rescue operation quickly found the vessel in a bay south of Copenhagen.
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Police and civil service officials said some worshippers had been killed but refused to give a figure as the rescue operation was still ongoing.
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To Unsworth, Musk's elaborate plan to dispatch a submarine to rescue the boys looked more like a PR stunt than an actual rescue operation.
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Video posted by the Syrian Civil Defense, a volunteer search-and-rescue operation in the country, showed responders digging through the rubble, searching for survivors.
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French forces last week freed four hostages, including an American and South Korean, in a rescue operation in Burkina Faso that saw two soldiers killed.
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As authorities prepared to continue a search-and-rescue operation in the mobile home park Monday, Mondragon wondered what she and her family would do.
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FIFA expressed "profound gratitude to all persons involved in the rescue operation," and condolences for the family of the Thai Navy SEAL diver who died.
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The group was trapped by flooding after entering the complex on June 23, sparking a huge search and rescue operation led by the Thai military.
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Christie said at an earlier press conference that everyone has been removed from the train and that there is no longer an ongoing rescue operation.
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The men on Friday's patrol have also left behind their families and other commitments to aid in the rescue operation in Houston, working without pay.
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Seven members of the crew had been rescued so far while a search and rescue operation continued for the other four, the coast guard said.
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Coast guard vessels and boats from the European border patrol agency Frontex were carrying out a search and rescue operation off the island of Samos.
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As the rescue operation got underway, Facebook switched on its Safety Check, which enables people to locate family members in the area affected by disasters.
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Novo Banco was carved out of the country's biggest ever bank collapse in 2014 after a 4.9 billion euro rescue operation of Banco Espirito Santo.
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Hundreds of passengers survived a harrowing rescue operation after their luxury cruise liner experienced engine failure in stormy waters off the west coast of Norway.
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Shortly after that, a wooden sailboat sank near another Greek island, Kalolimnos, and coast guard described a "large-scale rescue" operation underway in the area.
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A US military official said there were 36 US Pacific Command military personnel involved in the rescue operation, mostly from Kadena Air Base in Japan.
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Challen has explained how he worked closely with Harris to medically assess the boys and their coach and get them ready for the rescue operation.
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A major rescue operation is underway and search teams have rescued 11 people some of whom are in a serious condition, the sources told Reuters.
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Luckily, we were able to reach Currotto to find out more about her close brush with death and the details surrounding Sanders's valiant rescue operation.
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The leader of the rescue operation said he was optimistic that the remaining five team members could be brought out of the cave on Tuesday.
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The Maltese authorities ordered the Alan Kurdi not to take anyone on board, but the rescue operation had already taken place when the demand arrived.
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A search-and-rescue operation started Monday evening in heavy seas and continued on Tuesday, with British and French helicopters, airplanes and ships taking part.
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The ship will remain at the port in Molde for a public investigation into what happened, Mr. Knudsen, the spokesman for the rescue operation, said.
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Her first Arctic trip was in 2015, when she documented a United States Coast Guard search-and-rescue operation in the Chukchi and Beaufort seas.
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An air force officer was killed when he fell out of a helicopter during a rescue operation in the southern district of Galle on Friday.
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We had learned a tragic lesson during the ill-fated 1980 "Desert One" rescue operation in Iran to extract U.S. embassy personnel held as hostages.
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When Wayne Hsiung first heard about the idea of bringing a VR camera along on a rescue operation, it struck him as a cumbersome gimmick.
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We reached an area called "the bridge" where a hastily organized rescue operation was being mounted to save hundreds of people trapped in their homes.
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The migrant vessel capsized after a violent collision with the Portuguese ship, and only 28 survivors were found after a vast search-and-rescue operation.
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The civil defense - widely known as the White Helmets - runs a rescue operation to help dig through the rubble and take the injured to hospital.
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The EU&aposs border control force, Frontex, operates a search and rescue operation in the Mediterranean using air and sea contributions from a variety of countries.
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The Kent Coastguard coordinated the search and rescue operation to find the men, who were then located one mile off the coast, Kent Police told Mashable.
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On Sunday the Pakistan Army announced via Facebook that troops were engaged in a relief and rescue operation in Chitral, providing food, tents and medical aid.
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Dozens of troops helped with the rescue operation, the disaster agency said, but the depth of the mine and a shortage of oxygen are hampering efforts.
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But that hope evaporated only two or three minutes later, once Durant realized that the two men standing beside him made up the entire rescue operation.
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"They were on a rescue operation and had no place to land due to a technical glitch," Air Force Commander Air Marshal Kapila Jayampathy told CNN.
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ABUJA/ANKARA (Reuters) - Four Turkish nationals have been kidnapped in western Nigeria and police are conducting a rescue operation, a state police spokesman said on Sunday.
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Malta rejected the Italian government's accusations that it had refused the ship, saying that the rescue operation had determined that Sicily was the nearest safe haven.
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A large-scale search and rescue operation involving US, French and Nigerien troops was launched soon after US officials realized US service members were unaccounted for.
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The area around Medellin is mountainous, and, although the plane reportedly went down close to a road, the rugged terrain has made the rescue operation difficult.
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"Assessing the situation now, it is necessary to evacuate the area for the rescue operation," said Mae Sai police commander Komsan Sa-ardluan over a loudspeaker.
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The police, Fire Department divers and the Coast Guard began a rescue operation, with the latter sending crews from stations in Jones Beach and Sandy Hook.
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The United Nations mission in Congo said it had sent an emergency team with two fire engines to support the Congolese authorities in the rescue operation.
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The airline conducted an emergency rescue operation after all roads leading to the airport were closed, the news outlet reported, citing airline and U.S. government sources.
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A farmer who had a hand in the rescue operation accuses the four well-born young ladies in a boating party of deliberately trying to drown him.
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Shortly after receiving more than $32,000 from America's Got Talent's Simon Cowell, Humane Society International used the funds to help finance a rescue operation in South Korea.
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The dangers were brought home by one death during the long rescue operation, former Thai navy SEAL Saman Gunan, who died while replenishing supplies inside the cave.
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The Thai official overseeing the rescue operation of a soccer team trapped in a flooded cave says the boys have been practicing wearing diving masks and breathing.
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Rescue operation chief Narongsak Osatanakorn said in a press conference that divers entered the caves, the second phase of an intricate and arduous operation, at 11 a.m.
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Tokyo (CNN)A major search and rescue operation is underway in Japan after deadly Typhoon Hagibis brought widespread flooding and landslides, destroying buildings and leaving dozens dead.
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In the summer of 2018, Unsworth took part in the rescue operation of 12 boys and their soccer coach who were trapped in a cave in Thailand.
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Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska thanked public and private entities for "putting all their means at our disposal" in what he called a very complex rescue operation.
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On Sunday, animal rescue operation Berufstierrettung Rhein Neckar responded to the scene to find a rat squealing helplessly as it attempted to free itself from the manhole.
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The dead include four soldiers who had joined the rescue operation, said a spokesperson for the control room of the Disaster Management and Relief Ministry in Dhaka.
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Schettino was lambasted by the Italian media and branded "Captain Coward" for leaving the stricken ship while a chaotic night-time rescue operation was in full flow.
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"A rescue operation was launched immediately, and the seriously injured pilgrims are being airlifted to hospital in Jammu," said Mandeep Bhandari, commissioner of the division of Jammu.
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Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, who reached the mine on Saturday evening, said the rescue operation was difficult and that he hoped the remaining miners would be saved.
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"Search and rescue operations are still on," said P.S. Rahangdale, chief fire officer of the Mumbai Fire Brigade, adding two firemen were injured during the rescue operation.
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The Russian army was called in to help with the rescue operation after President Vladimir Putin visited the area on Sunday following the G20 Summit in Japan.
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Xinhua, in a report late on Thursday, said the drills involved "exercises in communication, fleet formation changes, joint search-and-rescue operation and joint anti-piracy operation".
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A two-year-old boy has been stuck inside a 550-foot-deep well in southern India for the past four days, prompting a massive rescue operation.
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The charity, which conducted the ocean rescue operation on June 9, lashed out at Benetton on Tuesday and denied having anything to do with the advertising campaign.
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"Assessing the situation now, it is necessary to evacuate the area for the rescue operation," Komsan Sa-ardluan, the local police commander, told reporters over a loudspeaker.
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A massive search and rescue operation involving 110,000 people was underway in Japan Monday after deadly Typhoon Hagibis lashed the country over the weekend, the BBC reports.
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With proper training, there may be legitimate uses for some military equipment, such as during a search-and-rescue operation or in response to an active shooter.
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Rescuers stopped their search intermittently because of heavy rain, and the search and rescue operation was suspended at nightfall and will resume at daybreak Monday, Palangdan said.
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Her disappearance more than a week ago, after last being seen staggering down a street in downtown Reykjavik, prompted the largest search-and-rescue operation in decades.
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About 80 people are still taking part in a search-and-rescue operation to ensure that no one else was swept away, Mr. Cazeneuve said in the statement.
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The group was trapped by flooding after entering the complex looking for shelter from heavy rains, sparking a huge search and rescue operation led by the Thai military.
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"This equipment will increase efficiency in the rescue operation and we will continue with the search until we are satisfied that we have rescued everyone," he told Reuters.
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Thailand&aposs prime minister said Tuesday that increased security will be introduced at the cave made "world famous" by this week&aposs heroic rescue operation, Sky News reported .
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The Thai youth soccer team trapped for 18 days in a cave were given drugs to control their nerves during the perilous three-day rescue operation, officials said.
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Of the 142 workers underground at the time, 1.93 were brought to the surface on Friday and a big rescue operation mounted to try to find the others.
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The Greek army deployed two aircraft, a frigate and two helicopters to the search and rescue operation 21.2 nautical miles south-southeast of the Greek island of Karpathos.
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On Sunday, Russia's most senior federal disaster official declared the rescue operation over and all of the missing miners, who had been trapped by a cave-in, dead.
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The body of Khaled Tinsa was recovered on Monday during a rescue operation that freed another Tunisian engineer and two Cameroonian technicians, government spokesman Issa Tchiroma Bakary said.
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Narez described the situation as "still very much a search and rescue" operation Wednesday, but added that officials were making progress and the rain, at least, was gone.
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"The rescue operation is almost over," said J.P. Mishra, the chief public relations officer at East Coast Railway, which has jurisdiction over the area where the derailment occurred.
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"This was an overwhelming search and rescue operation by all sides involved," Babar Baloch, spokesman of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), told a news briefing.
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QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) - The death toll from Saturday's coal mine blast and landslides in southwest Pakistan climbed to 23 on Sunday, officials said, after ending their rescue operation.
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Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, who reached the mine on Saturday evening, said the rescue operation was very difficult and that he hoped the remaining miners would be saved.
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During the roughly nine-hour rescue operation, the boys were underwater for four to six hours, according to Jedsada Chokedamrongsook, the permanent secretary of the Thai Health Ministry.
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The team had to be pulled out over a three day period as Thailand's annual monsoons flooded the cave, prompting a massive and frenzied search and rescue operation.
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At least 65 body bags have been gathered since the start of the search-and-rescue operation, though each bag could contain remains of more than one person.
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A Nigerian navy spokesman said they had begun an investigation and search and rescue operation as soon as the incident was reported, and would provide an update soon.
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King Maha Vajiralongkorn Bodindradebayavarangkun, who has closely monitored the rescue operation, directed that Mr. Saman receive a royal-sponsored funeral and that his family be taken care of.
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All they knew of them now came from occasional phone calls with family members who had stayed behind with boats to take part in the huge rescue operation.
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"We've checked all of the ship, and unfortunately there are no more," Mr. Barbuceanu concluded Friday, saying the rescue operation had saved 254 sheep out of 14,600 aboard.
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A search on land and at sea recovered 11 bodies, according to the Norwegian Joint Rescue Coordination Center, which was conducting the rescue operation with assistance from Statoil.
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The U.S. Marine Corps said on Saturday an active search and rescue operation was underway for servicemembers involved in an aviation "mishap" off the east coast of Australia.
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An aerial search-and-rescue operation for the two men was delayed after tensions between Pakistan and India flared into a military confrontation and Pakistani airspace was closed.
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Helicopters were ferrying people, some plucked from the roofs of buildings and tree-tops, to the port city of Beira, the main headquarters for the huge rescue operation.
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A cat that's been stuck on a water tower in Weld County, Colorado, for at least four days is at the center of a difficult rescue operation on Wednesday.
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The Open Arms docking in Barcelona was followed closely by the Astral, a sister boat run by the same organization where four European Parliament lawmakers witnessed the rescue operation.
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A person who participated in the rescue operation, Vaggelis Kriaras, told Greece's Open TV that Christopher may have fallen in her attempt to climb, or descend, a cliff-face.
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With the exception of a SEAL Team 6 member who died in a hostage rescue operation that fall, Commander Price's men would be the final SEAL fatalities in Afghanistan.
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Beijing time (1940 GMT), the China News Service said, adding that two people had been rescued by passing fishing boats and a search and rescue operation was still underway.
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"Twelve bodies, among them five men and seven women, have already been recovered," said Wakulyamba, adding that 27 people had been rescued so far in a continuing rescue operation.
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The one-a-half-hour rescue operation was carried out by Indian troops and fellow mountaineers in the middle of the night night at a height of 15,800 feet.
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After pondering for days how to get the 13 out, a rescue operation was launched on Sunday when four of the boys were brought out, tethered to rescue divers.
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Tyrone 'Rone' Woods (Badge Dale), the Navy SEAL and contractors' de facto commander, ultimately defies that order and mounts a rescue operation — but, spoiler alert, they arrive too late.
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The large-scale search-and-rescue operation involving US, French and Nigerien troops was launched soon after US officials realized one of the US service members was unaccounted for.
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Helicopters whirred above the turbid, red-brown flood waters searching for people to ferry back to the port city of Beira, headquarters of the huge rescue operation in Mozambique.
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The Argentine navy called off its rescue operation about two weeks after the sub's disappearance, saying there was "no chance of survival" for its crew, but search efforts continued.
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The AP reported that more than 450 individuals were airlifted off of the ship before the rescue operation was suspended and the ship was towed to a nearby port.
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Turkey issued a Notice to Airmen saying the Greek rescue operation was within its maritime search and rescue region and that all efforts should be coordinated with Turkish authorities.
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He played an important role in rescuing a Thai soccer team from a cave, and, during the rescue operation, he also saved the life of a Thai Navy SEAL.
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PARIS – Authorities say an explosion at a grain silo in the eastern French city of Strasbourg has injured at least four people, and a large rescue operation is underway.
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As of Friday, 65 body bags have been gathered since the start of the search-and-rescue operation, though each bag could contain remains of more than one person.
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The Bettica also responded to a second call for help on Wednesday and in a rescue operation that pulled 108 migrants from a large rubber boat, the navy said.
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It said the Maltese authorities had told them they did not consider it to be a rescue operation, but rather the transfer of individuals from one boat to another.
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Norway: A cruise ship stranded off the country's coast finally reached shore, a welcome sight for hundreds of passengers who had not been evacuated in a harrowing rescue operation.
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According to reports, the vessel had been accompanied by a Turkish patrol boat while in Turkish territorial waters, before deliberately overturning to trigger a rescue operation from Greek authorities.
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Mr. Sheko told me that Islamic State fighters had been waiting to ambush the rescue operation and began their attack from the basement as soon as the troops entered.
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Anger over the injuries has driven much of the testimony in the case so far, as service members vividly described a rescue operation that exposed them to enemy fire.
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Prime Minister Ardern said that although the search and rescue operation was the immediate priority, "bigger questions" around the disaster would have to be answered in the coming weeks.
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Dumas Rescue is working to rescue them, but the rain-saturated ground is making the rescue operation on the old mining access roads treacherous, even impassible, she said. Sgt.
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"There's a team of Red Cross and OPM and local authorities on the ground in a rescue operation," said Julius Mucunguzi, spokesman for the office of the prime minister.
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An international search-and-rescue operation involving aircraft, divers and vessels is looking for the missing sailors over an area of about 5,500 square kilometres around the crash site.
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Koontz said park officials were in contact with the people on the gondolas through an intercom system during the rescue operation, adding that each gondola was equipped with emergency blankets.
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The S-92 helicopter crashed off the coast of Ireland on March 14 during an Irish Coast Guard rescue operation, killing two people with another two missing and presumed dead.
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YAOUNDE, March 20 (Reuters) - A Tunisian engineer was killed by his kidnappers in Anglophone Southwest Cameroon and his body was recovered in a rescue operation on Monday, Cameroon's government said.
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But when police raided the 'Sheik' street brothel in the center of the resort city in a rescue operation in 2012, Kinan's immediate reaction was one of denial and dismay.
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At the end of the demonstration, to the tune of the movie "Mission Impossible," the Indonesian forces carried out a hostage rescue operation, deploying stealthily from helicopters - with police dogs.
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Since Italy abandoned a search-and-rescue operation in 2014, humanitarian groups have increasingly taken to the sea to rescue migrants who people smugglers pack onto unsafe and overcrowded boats.
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By the time he entered federal politics in 2007, Shorten had built a formidable reputation based on his public role in the Beaconsfield gold mine rescue operation a year earlier.
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Australian Defence Minister Marise Payne said the Australian government would assist the U.S.-led recovery effort after what she described as an "extensive search-and-rescue operation" was called off.
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Both were later taken away in an ambulance, but only after police rushed the airport in a rescue operation that led to violent clashes at the entrance to the terminal.
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William, 36, worked as an Royal Air Force search-and-rescue pilot between 2010 and 2013 when the search and rescue operation was based out of RAF Valley in Anglesey.
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Maria Kovtun, Murmansk's governor, said in a statement that a rescue operation had been launched and 71 people evacuated after the floating dock holding the ship had begun to sink.
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Lisa Vanderpump's husband assaulted a dog rescue's executive for not playing ball -- so claims the rescue operation in a new lawsuit, but Lisa says the allegation's all bark ... no bite.
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"All of our Sailors, Marines, and available assets aboard the USS Essex have been and will continue to be involved in this incredibly important search and rescue operation," he added.
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As Trump tweeted, images and reports were coming in of the rescue operation underway, including the news that some boys had been evacuated successfully from the cave in northern Thailand.
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The international rescue operation wrapped up successfully on July 10, when the last of the group was brought to safety from inside the flooded Tham Luang Cave in Chiang Rai.
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Surawan's reference to four months has been interpreted as a potential sign that authorities are considering waiting until after the rainy season ends in October to begin the rescue operation.
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The reference to four months has been interpreted as a potential sign that authorities are considering waiting until after the rainy season ends in October to begin the rescue operation.
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"We repeat our calls on Europe, on the governments, to be out there saving lives," U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Babar Baloch said following the massive Easter weekend rescue operation.
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The boys were eventually rescued in a massive international rescue operation with divers carrying them through the cave on stretchers — a mission that did not end up using Musk's submarine.
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The downed plane prompted a massive search and rescue operation involving the Coast Guard, the U.S. Navy and a visiting crew from the Royal New Zealand Air Force, officials said.
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He said the only way to halt the continuing deaths in the Mediterranean was to organize a comprehensive rescue operation and provide alternative ways for migrants to travel to Europe.
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Musk is being sued by Unsworth, who took part in the 2018 rescue operation that freed 12 boys and a soccer coach who were trapped inside a cave in Thailand.
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Pius Masai Mwachi of the National Disaster Management Unit said a rescue operation is going on after a five-story residential building collapsed early Sunday in the Ngei area of Huruma.
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The USS John S. McCain collided with the merchant tanker in waters near Singapore and Malaysia on Monday, which led to an international search-and-rescue operation for the missing sailors.
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On Thursday, the U.S. Navy suspended the wider search and rescue operation to focus recovery efforts on the damaged hull of the ship, which is moored at Singapore's Changi Naval Base.
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The European Union has focused in on stemming the flow of migrants and refugees into the continent, but has yet to launch a comprehensive search and rescue operation in the Mediterranean.
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Two Azerbaijan helicopters and the country's coast guard were involved in the rescue operation, resulting in the safe rescue of all nine crew members, who were still on board the vessel.
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PARIS (Reuters) - An avalanche in the French Alps killed four people on Friday and injured one, while another person was missing, police said, adding that a mountain rescue operation was underway.
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Hopes of finding more survivors from Italy's powerful earthquake faded, with the death toll rising to 292 on Monday and the rescue operation in some of the stricken areas called off.
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Separately, South Korea's Defense Ministry released a video earlier on Friday showing its ship trying to rescue a North Korean fishing vessel and reiterating that it was a humanitarian rescue operation.
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"The search and rescue operation continues as we reach out to next of kin to share details of sad incident and plan together next course of action," the KWS said Monday.
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"When we first discussed this mission, we said right away this mission is impossible," said the governor of Chiang Rai Province, Narongsak Osottanakorn, who is overseeing the search and rescue operation.
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After a search and rescue operation that has encompassed over 800 hours and covered 35,000 square miles of ocean, the bodies of the five missing Marines have yet to be recovered.
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This wild ride on Friday was part of a modern-day rescue operation for stranded cattle at risk of drowning in the floodwaters produced by the unprecedented rainfall from Hurricane Harvey.
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Rescuer also evacuated Race organizers said the crew of the Isiris would also evacuate Irishman Gregor McGuckin, who was caught in the same storm but managed to join the rescue operation.
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An international search-and-rescue operation involving aircraft, divers and vessels from the United States, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Australia is looking for the 10 U.S. sailors missing since Monday's collision.
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But when Rip is kidnapped two years later by the extremist group Boko Haram, those in his former band of brothers put aside their differences in a search-and-rescue operation.
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It's unclear whether they'll wind up winning that neighborhood decorating contest, but it's going to be hard to top a display so damn good it prompted a full-blown rescue operation.
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"I would never consider them prostitutes — it was really a rescue operation," the sheriff said, training his anger at the men whose demand for sex kept the massage parlors in business.
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Castaways clutch a lifesaver in the Quai 22007 collective's mural "Mare Nostrum Mortuum" (721), which references the sea's Latin name and the Italian navy's 53 to 25 search-and-rescue operation.
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One of the two British divers who found the group said the rescue operation was "completely uncharted, unprecedented territory," and that he had not been certain the boys would be found alive.
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The music video has played on national newscasts during round-the-clock coverage of the search and rescue operation at the Tham Luang Nang Non cave in far northern Chiang Rai province.
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Narongsak Osottanakorn, chief of the rescue operation, said on Saturday that conditions are "perfect" to evacuate them in the coming days before fresh rains and a rise in carbon dioxide close in.
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In this handout photo released by Tham Luang Rescue Operation Center, Thai rescue teams walk inside a cave complex in Mae Sai, Chiang Rai province, in northern Thailand, Monday, July 2, 2018.
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The British Cave Rescue Council, which has members taking part in the rescue operation, estimates that the group are around 1.2 miles into the cave and around 0.6 miles below the surface.
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The British Cave Rescue Council, which has members taking part in the rescue operation, estimates that the group are around 1.2 miles into the cave and around 0.6 miles below the surface.
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During a rescue operation overnight Friday into Saturday, at least five members of the Syria Civil Defense, also known as the White Helmets, were injured by a nearby airstrike, al-Selmo said.
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Details: El Reno Mayor Matt White told a news conference early Sunday that several people had been transported to hospitals in Oklahoma City and authorities had launched a search and rescue operation.
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"I hope that this boat approaches the port of Naples because, unlike what the government says, we will launch a rescue operation and we will let it enter the port," he said.
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The boys, who are aged 16 and 17, were located by search crews with sniffer dogs in a rescue operation that took place early Wednesday morning, according to Agence-France Presse news.
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Badjeck countered that the country's defense and security forces helped the rescue operation, noting that regional authorities suspended the movement of non-emergency vehicles as military police and helicopters joined the hunt.
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" The prime minister added that in the past authorities lacked a good map of the cave, but that following the mammoth rescue operation "we should have a better diagram to create safety.
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It featured the Manson family taking Tate and her friends hostage, only to have Bruce Lee (a minor character in the film, played by Mike Moh) show up for a rescue operation.
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Amid a deluge of social media talk about the search-and-rescue operation at the Tham Luang cave network, some attention has focused on the work of a political cartoonist called Stephff.
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When huge crowds of people rallied in central Seoul in recent months to demand that Ms. Park be removed, the government's botched rescue operation was a central grievance voiced against the president.
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A large search-and-rescue operation was underway, the Coast Guard said, with six Coast Guard vessels scouring the area alongside two Air Force helicopters, a Navy helicopter and four fishing boats.
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GENEVA (Reuters) - An Iranian MiG-29 fighter jet crashed in the northwest of the country on Wednesday, prompting a rescue operation for the pilot, state media quoted Iran's armed forces as saying.
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The two officers at the scene said they could feel the heat coming from the car during their rescue operation – and said even they were "struggling to breathe" because of the scorching weather.
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The captain of the USS Helena, who was now in charge of the surviving ships, decided to leave, believing a search and rescue operation wasn't feasible, and because he feared more Japanese attacks.
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Lisa Wright, general manager of Maggie's Rescue, a rescue operation in Sydney's inner west, told Mashable Australia in an email that images of cats tended to raise less funds than those of dogs.
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"To truly stop this trade of bride trafficking to China, prevention needs to be the priority," she said, who described the recent rescue operation in China as the biggest involving foreign trafficked women.
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Jon Stewart came to the rescue of two stray goats found roaming the subway tracks of New York City this week by giving them a home at his animal rescue operation ... no joke!
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One example was a migrant rescue operation that was filmed in the Mediterranean Sea using 360, with the organisation on the boats live streaming everything as it happened for people to monitor elsewhere.
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An international search-and-rescue operation involving aircraft, divers and vessels is looking for 10 U.S. sailors missing since Monday's collision between the U.S. guided-missile destroyer and a merchant vessel near Singapore.
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Malian Defence Minister Tieman Hubert Coulibaly told reporters that an army commander was killed in the rescue operation as well as three of the attackers, whom he called terrorists but did not identify.
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His death came at a pivotal moment in the rescue operation, as teams ramped up their efforts to free the boys ahead of forecast monsoonal rain and dropping oxygen levels in the cave.
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Thirteen survivors were pulled from the rubble in the rescue operation that started after the collapse on Tuesday and ended Wednesday night, said a spokesman for the National Emergency Management Agency, Ibrahim Farinloye.
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Most migrants are picked up by a rescue operation in the sea (run by either volunteers or the Italian Coast Guard), which then takes them to a port in south Italy or Sicily.
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The Times's John Ismay, a former Navy diver, narrates newly released footage of the rescue operation, revealing the daring of the rescuers and the terrifying conditions the 20093 trapped soccer team members faced.
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A low dam outside the cave was keeping water levels inside the cave relatively stable, and the leader of the rescue operation expressed optimism about getting the remaining five team members out today.
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"It has reached Molde; everything has gone according to plan," Einar Knudsen, a spokesman for the Joint Rescue Coordination Center for Southern Norway, which led the rescue operation, said by phone on Sunday.
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Dany's next mistake, underestimating both the Night King and Cersei, is to agree to the wight hunt, and then risk all three dragons for a rescue operation for which she had limited intel.
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Authorities have reportedly confirmed the bodies of four people killed in a boat fire near Santa Cruz Island were recovered during a rescue operation that began in the early morning on Labor Day.
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But what keeps Dr. Merten and other experts on edge is the possibility that a ship that is less prepared could have a problem that would require an extensive search-and-rescue operation.
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"We are pleased to confirm that following a search and rescue operation on the Brecon Beacons this afternoon, all 26 members of the party involved have been accounted for," a police spokesman said.
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MUMBAI (Reuters) - A two-year-old boy who fell into a well while playing outside his house in southern India died during an 80-hour-long rescue operation, state authorities said on Tuesday.
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ATR aircraft On Sunday, Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and President Hassan Rouhani expressed their condolences to the victims and their families, ordering officials to spare no efforts in their rescue operation.
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Indian Navy commandos demonstrate rescue operation skills, France facing the most disruptive strike, over changes to country's retirement system, a koala recovers from brushfire burns in Australia, House Speaker Pelosi challenges a reporter.
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The Commission added that, under international law, it was up to the country coordinating the search and rescue operation - in this case Italy - to pick the port to which the vessel should go.
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According to the Australian Associated Press, a US production team didn't bother to wait until the end of the rescue operation to begin the process of adapting the events for the big screen.
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Thailand&aposs leader is thanking the international community for their support and assistance in the search and rescue operation for 12 boys and their soccer coach trapped in a flooded cave in northern Thailand.
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The Navy's 7th Fleet had abandoned the search and rescue operation Thursday to focus instead on search and recovery—signaling that the military didn't expect to find any additional more survivors of the crash.
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Spanish police said members of a Swedish firm which helped locate 33 Chilean miners rescued after 69 days underground more than seven years ago had arrived on Tuesday to help in the rescue operation.
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Of course, there is still plenty more to be done: The cost of this rescue operation will likely exceed $100,000 and, after the pregnant pigs give birth, there will be 500 pigs to place.
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For now, officials on both sides are talking up the cooperation on display in Wednesday's rescue operation, when Pakistani troops acting on a U.S. intelligence tip-off swooped on a vehicle carrying the hostages.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - A German-based humanitarian group said on Tuesday up to 30 African migrants may have died because of what it called "aggressive" Libyan interference in a rescue operation outside Libyan territorial waters.
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It was a chaotic scene as the rescue operation took place, with an excavator digging through the mountain of rubble, dumping broken concrete, shards of thin wood and bits of twisted metal into trucks.
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"She was clearly intimidated ... But she is of age and said that in front of people, so there was nothing we could do," said Vander Braga, the police officer who led the rescue operation.
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La David Johnson was separated: A large-scale search-and-rescue operation involving US, French and Nigerien troops was launched soon after US officials realized one of the US service members was unaccounted for.
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A huge rescue operation is underway at the Tham Luang Nang Non cave complex, where dozens of Thai Navy SEALs and international experts are attempting to find a way to get the boys out.
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In the last 18 days, what began as a local search for the missing 13 turned into a complex rescue operation, involving hundreds of experts who flew in from around the world to help.
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Chiang Rai, Thailand (CNN)The 12 boys who were trapped in a cave in northern Thailand for almost three weeks paid tribute to the Navy SEAL who lost his life during the rescue operation.
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Now, an update brings 3D imagery, as well as augmented reality, to the existing app, letting people involved in rescue operation get an even better overall picture of the situation when an accident happens.
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Some of his recent cartoons have taken aim at how the Thai bureaucracy is handling the rescue operation, and another celebrated the trapped boys' football club while poking fun at the Brazilian national team.
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The ensuing search-and-rescue operation, involving hundreds of people from some 20 government agencies and half a dozen nations, has captivated Thailand, with people across the country, including the king, following the developments.
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Just under two decades ago, the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia staged a curatorial rescue operation, attempting to retrieve Mr. Gernreich from obscurity and restore him to his rightful place in fashion history.
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Barack Obama responded with airstrikes and a rescue operation in 2014 when the Islamic State started a genocide against members of the Yazidi sect, slaughtering men and forcing women and girls into sexual slavery.
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Tanker engulfed in flames Chinese maritime officials have launched a search-and-rescue operation involving eight vessels, with support from South Korea, which has provided a coast guard ship and aircraft, the ministry said.
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The Maritime Rescue Coordination Center in Canberra, Australia, was in charge of the rescue operation, with Australian, French and Indian naval vessels and other yachts from the competition braving rough conditions to reach him.
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The rescue operation was an impressive international collaboration; it's a story that makes you feel proud of the resilience of humans, the generosity of strangers, and the can-do attitude of a community in crisis.
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Australia&aposs foreign minister says 19 Australian personnel are involved in the Thailand cave rescue operation including a doctor who&aposs played an essential part in assessing which boys can leave and in what order.
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On Monday on WeChat, the boat sinking generated roughly 10 times the interest of the cave drama, while on Tuesday the cave rescue operation did not rate in the index on the Baidu search engine.
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Masha Gordon, who has co-ordinated a crowdfunding campaign to fund the rescue operation, said Revol managed to bring Mackiewicz down to 20.8049,280 meters and set him up in a tent to spend the night.
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The government has run a massive search-and-rescue operation involving thousands of soldiers and police, but victims in outlying areas of the city and surrounding villages complained that aid has been slow to arrive.
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Uralkali, one of world's largest potash producers, said a rescue operation got underway after an incident just after 10 am (0700 GMT) at a mine in Solikamsk, some 1,500 km (930 miles) northeast of Moscow.
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EDF's acquisition of Areva NP is part of a state-led financial rescue operation for Areva which was decided by the previous government in June 2015, when current French President Emmanuel Macron was economy minister.
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She is at pains to thank the rescuers for their efforts and the unending debt of gratitude she owes to the Thai Navy SEALs, one of whom died last Friday during the pre-rescue operation.
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In an article published in the National News Bureau of Thailand, the Prime Minister thanks the army, police, volunteers, the general public and the media for working together and making the rescue operation a success.
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The police and firefighters broke windows and worked with hospital staff and volunteers in a rescue operation to evacuate more than 500 patients from the hospital, a witness and hospital officials told the Press Trust.
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The government began to rally public support for the rescue operation, calling for volunteers and donations — even asking local farmers to allow their fields to be flooded by water pumped out of Tham Luang Cave.
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The governor of Chiang Rai Province, Narongsak Osottanakorn, who is overseeing the search-and-rescue operation, said a medical team would treat the team members and evaluate them to determine when they could be moved.
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The governor of Chiang Rai Province, Narongsak Osottanakorn, who is overseeing the search-and-rescue operation, said Thursday night that three people in the cave were getting weaker, although they remained in reasonably good condition.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi was also criticized for visiting the neighboring state of Assam on Christmas Day and not mentioning the rescue operation during a photo opportunity or paying a visit to the nearby site.
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TIRANA, Albania — The search-and-rescue operation for earthquake survivors in Albania has ended, the prime minister said Saturday, with the death toll at 51 and no more bodies believed to be in the ruins.
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The rescue operation, which continued through the night, has been slowed by concerns that other parts of the building might come tumbling down, and the instability delayed the retrieval of one victim until Tuesday evening.
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Dozens of Royal Thai Army soldiers rested on rocks outside the cave, with two of them saying they had been told by superiors that the rescue operation would likely begin Sunday or the day after.
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"We look forward to working with all involved parties to ensure our story is told accurately, so that the world can recognize, once again, the heroes that made the rescue operation a success," the coach added.
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This Monday, July 2, 2018, file photo released by Tham Luang Rescue Operation Center, shows the boys and their soccer coach as they were found in a partially flooded cave, in Mae Sai, Chiang Rai, Thailand.
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Within a week, the rescue operation mapped out the cave, assembled a plan, used pumps to reduce the water level, delivered food and medicine to the stranded team, and even provided medical support to the boys.
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Initially a search-and-rescue operation, Demings said at a noon press conference there was "no question" the boy was dead after so many hours underwater and that the hunt had turned into a recovery effort.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Monday awarded the country's highest honor for valor to Navy SEAL Edward Byers, who used his body to shield an American hostage from gunfire during a rescue operation in Afghanistan.
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Authorities then, and in particular President Vladimir Putin, who was at the beginning of now almost two decades as president or prime minister, came under fire for their slow response and shortcomings in the rescue operation.
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Uganda's Entebbe airport was the scene in 1976 of a dramatic rescue operation conducted by Israeli commandos to save nearly 100 mostly Israeli passengers on board an Air France airliner hijacked by Palestinian and German militants.
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At Italy's request, the member states of the EU's border agency, Frontex, met in Warsaw on July 11th to discuss changing the rules that govern Triton, the agency's search-and-rescue operation in the central Mediterranean.
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PESCARA DEL TRONTO, Italy (Reuters) - Hopes of finding more survivors from Italy's powerful earthquake faded on Friday, with the death toll rising to 281 and the rescue operation in some of the stricken areas called off.
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In comments to Hyperallergic, Stephen Kay, an archaeology officer at the British School at Rome, noted that the excavations were rather narrow and done as a rescue operation on the small road next to the river.
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Mumbai, India (CNN)Authorities in the Indian city of Mumbai have called off a rescue operation after a three-story building came crashing down on its residents, killing at least 33 people and injuring dozens more.
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Over the course of the season, Giese travels to California shelters overrun with injured and displaced animals from the recent wildfires, as well as to Puerto Rico to help a dog rescue operation post Hurricane Maria.
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Barr has said his decision-making leading to the successful FBI rescue operation that followed was the event that had the greatest impact and left him feeling most satisfied in his years at the Justice Department.
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Officials are considering a rescue plan involving a "buddy dive" -- where an experienced adult diver would swim with each boy -- to evacuate the team members, according to a US official familiar with the joint rescue operation.
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Officials at Ghana's Information Ministry said five Ghanaians and three Nigerians were taken into custody, that no ransom was paid for the release, and that there was no foreign involvement in the rescue operation, CBC reported.
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The government has already apologized for failing to prevent the sinking of the ferry and botching the rescue operation, offering a compensation package for bereaved families that averaged 470 million won, or about $415,000, per victim.
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With the search officially turning to a rescue operation on Tuesday, the main question now has been the best way, and the best time, to get the boys and their coach out of the cave. Capt.
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But the governor of Chiang Rai Province, Narongsak Osottanakorn, who is overseeing the search-and-rescue operation, expressed hope that Thai Navy SEAL divers could soon reach the cavern where the group is believed to be.
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Tripti Bhatt, the commander of the State Disaster Response Force in Uttarakhand, the state where the mountain is, said the Indo-Tibetan Border Police and medical units were also involved in the search and rescue operation.
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The government has been criticized for not providing the rescue operation with powerful pumps to extract water from the mine, which officials say is 300 feet deep and filled with at least 70 feet of water.
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The interior minister, Christophe Castaner, said that 120 police officers and 80 firefighters had joined the search-and-rescue operation, and that they had identified air pockets in the debris that meant there could be survivors.
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"We were able to salvage the sunken ferry yesterday and we don't expect to find any more bodies, so we've suspended the official rescue operation," said Ko Ko Naing, an official of Myanmar's social welfare ministry.
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The Tesla CEO is being sued by Vernon Unsworth, a British diver who took part in the 2018 rescue operation that freed 12 boys and a soccer coach who were trapped inside a cave in Thailand.
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Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and President Hassan Rouhani expressed their condolences to the victims and their families, ordering officials to spare no efforts in their rescue operation, the state-run Islamic News Agency reported.
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A joint French and British search effort resumed on Wednesday with airplanes, helicopters and ships, but John Fitzgerald, chief officer of Channel Islands Air Search, said that it should no longer be considered a rescue operation.
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The national fire brigade said it had intervened in 7,000 cases across the country and that one of its staff had died, crushed by a tree during a rescue operation in a small town in South Tyrol.
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"Today was the best day, the best situation in terms of the weather, the health of the boys, our water management for our rescue effort," the head of the rescue operation, Narongsak Osottanakorn, told a news conference.
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U.S. Pacific Fleet Commander Admiral Scott Swift said an international search-and-rescue operation had found some remains and that the wider search for 10 sailors missing from the accident would continue until all hope was exhausted.
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The plan would involve bringing the boys and their coach out of the cave the same way they entered, Narongsak Osatanakorn, a Thai official in charge of the rescue operation, told reporters Friday, according to ABC News.
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The group was transferred to a ship of the European Union&aposs border control force, Frontex, which directs a search-and-rescue operation in the Mediterranean with air and sea resources contributed from a variety of countries.
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One of those killed was a 22011-year-old woman who fell 40 meters (131 feet) during a helicopter rescue operation in Iwaki City, Fukushima prefecture, on Sunday morning, Tokyo Fire Department press officer Yuji Kikuchi said.
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On Wednesday, a statement apparently issued by the Oliver Sinisterra front - a faction of the former FARC guerrillas that refused to adhere to a 2016 peace agreement - reported the Ecuadoreans had died in a failed rescue operation.
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The other major immediate effect of the "no" vote is that it could make it harder for Italy's massively indebted banks to raise badly needed capital, making a messy rescue operation coordinated by the government more necessary.
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Washington (CNN)A search-and-rescue operation is underway for a US sailor who went overboard from the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier in the Persian gulf on Wednesday, according to a statement from the US Navy.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Ten crew members have been found dead and 14 have been rescued after two ships caught fire in the Kerch Strait near Crimea, Russia's transport ministry said on Monday, with a rescue operation still underway.
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Jason Amerine says that when a team of Special Forces was hit by friendly fire in Afghanistan in December 2001, Mattis, who was in charge of a nearby group of Marines, hesitated to approve a rescue operation.
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The finding dashed hopes that the search and rescue operation was zeroing in on the ARA San Juan, which was carrying 44 crew and gave its last signal five days ago after earlier reporting an electric malfunction.
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Greece&aposs coast guard says a search and rescue operation is underway for a boat believed to be carrying about 50 migrants which issued a distress call off the coast of the eastern Aegean island of Samos.
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The group had been the focus of a search-and-rescue operation ever since the boys and their coach went into the cave complex after soccer practice on June 453 and were caught inside by rising floodwaters.
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Maj. Charles S. Kettles, an Army helicopter commander in the Vietnam War, led an extraordinary rescue operation that saved the lives of dozens of airborne troops who had been ambushed by North Vietnamese soldiers in May 244.
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The city's press office and environment department said Wednesday that although their officials had declined to enter the favela, they were talking with residents to assess the possibility of a joint rescue operation with the military police.
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Hundreds of residents had gathered over the course of the morning to watch the rescue operation, though Mr. Jiménez's two youngest sons, including Wilhem, had stayed home with their mother after spending Friday at the search site.
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U.S. military officials called off a search and rescue operation on Sunday for three U.S. Marines who were missing after their Osprey aircraft crashed into the sea off the east coast of Australia while trying to land.
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Joshua Demarest, 13, and Tyler Day, 12, were both alive when they were pulled from the snow after a massive rescue operation, but Joshua was later pronounced dead at Saratoga Hospital, Cambridge-Greenwich Police Chief George Bell said.
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In the past, the Libyan coast guard has shot in the air during a rescue operation involving Open Arms ships, and aid workers say they have never responded to Open Arms&apos requests to help in a rescue.
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COLOGNE, Germany (Reuters) - German police detained a man who took a woman hostage at the train station in Cologne on Monday and said the suspect, who was seriously injured in the rescue operation, was probably a Syrian citizen.
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"Studies show that flooding resulting from the breakage of the dike could lead to an accident involving the meltdown of the four reactors' nuclear fuel, while the rescue operation would be particularly difficult," ASN said in a statement.
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"The rescue operation is very long and difficult ... We are dealing with reinforced concrete that has collapsed," he said, adding the structure was instable and that there was the threat of more avalanches as temperatures started to rise.
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Once they reach the command center, the boys will be handed over to separate specialist rescue teams, who will assist them through Chambers One and Two, according to a Thai navy official with knowledge of the rescue operation.
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MADRID — The authorities in Spain and Morocco extended a search-and-rescue operation at sea on Sunday after recovering the bodies of at least 20 African migrants a day earlier off Melilla, a Spanish enclave in northern Africa.
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The rescue operation includes specialists dispatched from Asturias, the coal mining region of northern Spain, as well as a Swedish company that provided the technology to help save 33 Chilean miners trapped for two months underground in 2010.
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Jesús Esteban Gutiérrez, a colonel from Spain's military police, told local news media that a dozen teams were involved in the rescue operation, but the police had also received over 60 additional offers of help from companies worldwide.
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On Saturday, Mr. Narongsak, the official leading the rescue operation, said that at one point the oxygen level had been so low in a chamber where many rescuers were working that nonessential personnel were sent out of it.
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KATHMANDU (Reuters) - A search and rescue operation for the four South Korean trekkers and three Nepali guides missing after being struck by an avalanche in northwest Nepal could take weeks due to bad weather, rescuers said on Sunday.
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The Thai official overseeing the effort to rescue members of a teen soccer team trapped in a flooded cave says a third rescue operation has begun Tuesday and aims to bring out the remaining four boys and their coach.
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In this handout photo released by Tham Luang Rescue Operation Center, Thai rescue teams walk inside cave complex where 12 boys and their soccer coach went missing, in Mae Sai, Chiang Rai province, in northern Thailand, Monday, July 2
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On Thursday, he said, a rescue operation was scheduled for his area, and he said he talked to the Secretary of Public Security, Héctor M. Pesquera, and asked for a helicopter to do an aerial survey of the landscape.
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An international search-and-rescue operation involving aircraft, divers and vessels from the United States, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Australia had been looking for the missing sailors over an area of about 5,500 square kilometres around the crash site.
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Five months after Maersk had recovered from its NotPetya attack, Maersk chair Jim Hagemann Snabe sat onstage at the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland, and lauded the "heroic effort" that went into the company's IT rescue operation.
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FIFA invited the team to attend after a massive rescue operation freed the last four of boys and their soccer coach from the cave on Tuesday, ending a perilous mission that gripped the world for more than two weeks.
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The central bank and the government reached an agreement last month with Lone Star to sell Novo Banco, but the deal falls short of recovering 4.9 billion euros ($5.2 bln) injected in the rescue operation of BES in 2014.
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The bloodshed ended only after a daring rescue operation by the police, in which they burst into a room in the club and freed 15 to 193 people before confronting the gunman and freeing another group being held hostage.
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BUENOS AIRES, Nov 20 (Reuters) - Satellite calls detected over the weekend during a search-and rescue-operation for a missing Argentine submarine did not come from the vessel, as previously believed, navy spokesman Enrique Balbi told reporters on Monday.
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Around 1,000 people are currently involved in the rescue operation, and will only make an attempt this weekend, which expects to see more heavy rain as monsoon season continues, "if the risk to their lives was minimal," CNN adds.
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Here's what you need to know: A vast search-and-rescue operation is underway today after Hurricane Michael cut a brutal path through the Florida Panhandle, leaving entire neighborhoods submerged and streets littered with debris and felled power lines.
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"This is something completely new for us," said Marc Bonnafous, who oversees the government's search and rescue operation in the channel waters from the lighthouse high above the sea here at Cap Gris-Nez, up the coast from Boulogne.
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Migrants began to die when Mare Nostrum, a search and rescue operation organized by the EU from October 2013 through the following October, was abruptly suspended because EU leaders believed the rescue ships were a "pull-factor" for migrants.
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Sérgio José Ferreira, the commander of Belo Horizonte's rescue operation, said that on that Friday, the fire department had to deal with seven different landslide events at the same time — two of them involving people who were still alive.
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However, an Italian leftist parliamentarian, Erasmo Palazzotto, who was on board another Spanish charity boat in the same stretch of the Mediterranean, said Kriewald was talking about a separate rescue operation which she had witnessed some 80 miles away.
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The search-and-rescue operation was coordinated by officials with the West Virginia State Police, the West Virginia Office of Miners' Health, Safety and Training, the West Virginia National Guard and the sheriffs' offices in Raleigh and Boone Counties.
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The two-helicopter rescue operation began around 400 km southwest of the town of Bodo in the early afternoon on Thursday, but activities were severely hampered by bad weather - high winds and eight-meter-high waves, the ministry said.
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Two mass kidnappings in the troubled Hot Land region of the beleaguered Mexican state of Guerrero have ended with an unusual result — most of the victims have been released following a large rescue operation by the army and police.
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However, in an interview with investigators, Korniloff "emphatically reiterated his sincere belief that critical hours were lost due to the unexplainable delay in initiating an aggressive, coordinated and effective search and rescue operation soon after the storm," the report reads.
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The country&aposs populist interior minister Matteo Salvini has repeatedly denied entry to aid ships rescuing migrants in the Mediterranean Sea, including Open Arms, and referred to the group&aposs claims and account of their rescue operation as "lies and insults."
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THAILAND CAVE RESCUE OPERATION: 4 MORE BOYS FREED, BRINGING TOTAL TO 8 Throughout the daring rescue, there was the risk of monsoon rains rising water in the cave endangering the team&aposs dry refuge and making the escape route too treacherous.
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"The guy came down from the helicopter, one of the coast guards, snapped me into the belt, said 'hold it,' and shot me about 100 feet in the air and into the helicopter," another passenger told Dagbladet of the rescue operation.
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And EU ships are unlikely to take rescued migrants back to Libya under international rules, even if the rescue operation takes place in Libyan waters, because of the human rights situation in the country, a spokesperson for the European Commission said.
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The bus was carrying 44 Chinese and two Laotians - a driver and a guide - when it skidded of the road and plunged into a ravine late Monday, prompting a rescue operation in a mountainous area where road conditions are poor.
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Scrutinising the official history of the Netanyahu family, Mr Pfeffer has exposed parts of it as mythology, including the controversial role Mr Netanyahu's elder brother, Yoni, played during the heroic hostage rescue operation at Entebbe Airport in Uganda in 1976.
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" Though the submarine was intended to help the 12 boys stranded with their soccer coach navigate flooded cave passageways, Unsworth, who helped plan the rescue operation and recruited other cave diving experts, said it "had absolutely no chance of working.
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EDF's acquisition of Areva NP is is part of a state-led financial rescue operation for Areva which was decided by the previous government in June 2015, when current French President Emmanuel Macron was economy minister in Francois Hollande's socialist cabinet.
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The Italian Coast Guard said in a statement that it had alerted the Egyptian authorities to the capsizing on Thursday, but that the Egyptians had declined to take charge of a rescue operation because the site was not in its jurisdiction.
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The search and rescue operation drew journalists from around the world, who descended on the small town of Mae Sai, near Thailand's border with Myanmar, hungry for a rare tale of mortal danger that had ended with an uplifting conclusion.
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A large search-and-rescue operation was underway, involving five coast guard vessels, a boat belonging to the European Union's border monitoring agency Frontex, a Greek air force helicopter, a Greek navy ship and four fishing boats, the spokeswoman said.
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Mr. Farrell's 3,800-word recounting of their seizure at gunpoint, their four days in captivity and the rescue operation that ended with the deaths of Mr. Munadi and a British paratrooper was one of At War's longest and most transfixing reads.
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The search and dramatic rescue operation to retrieve the 13 from the cave in the northern province of Chiang Rai has attracted global interest and dominated headlines around the world, putting the Tham Luang cave complex firmly on the map.
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Relatives of the first four rescued boys have been allowed to see them through a window, and a similar visit will be arranged for the others after doctors give their approval, the head of the rescue operation, Narongsak Osottanakorn, said Tuesday.
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Renzi had hoped to use the occasion to showcase Italy's industrial prowess, but the earthquake took center stage, with Merkel shaking the paw of a dog that had taken part in the rescue operation as she arrived for the meeting.
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The U.S. Navy and Marine Corps suspended the rescue operation and launched a recovery effort instead, the Marine base Camp Butler in Japan said in a statement, essentially confirming the military does not expect to find the missing Marines alive.
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The fire front is driving entire townships toward the coast and onto the beaches, where the Australian Defence Force waits to evacuate them on zodiacs and battleships in what is likely the largest peacetime maritime rescue operation in the country's history.
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"A number of people are reportedly injured and are now being transported to shore," Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern told a news conference, adding that a rescue operation had begun, though it was too early to confirm any injuries or deaths.
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Elon Musk's "pedo guy" assertion didn't defame Vernon Unsworth, a British cave explorer who took part in the 2018 rescue operation that freed 12 boys on a soccer team and their coach after they became trapped inside a cave in Thailand.
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Late last month, hikers Michael Trigg and Theodore Aslund were the subjects of a rescue operation that involved more than 20 people and one helicopter, after making it to the bus and taking longer than expected on their return journey.
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Lawmakers have demanded that Park more thoroughly respond to accusations that she was out of contact for seven hours on the day of the ferry disaster, a sensitive issue because the high number of fatalities was blamed on the government's botched rescue operation.
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JAKARTA, Indonesia – At least 12 people were killed and a frantic rescue operation was underway Tuesday off the Indonesian island of Sulawesi for dozens of passengers of a sinking passenger ferry run aground by its captain in a desperate bid to save lives.
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The group, also referred to as Thailand's Navy SEALs, are at the center of the rescue operation following the discovery of the youth soccer team and their coach earlier this week in a partially flooded cave complex in the country's mountainous northern region.
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That&aposs according to the governor here in this province where we are; 50 foreign divers, 40 Thai divers are currently involved in that rescue operation that&aposs been confirmed now by the governor has freed at least four of the boys.
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The rescue operation was not a major trending topic on social media in China, where interest in an accident involving a boat carrying mostly Chinese tourists off the Thai resort island of Phuket claiming at least 44 lives generated far more interest.
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Thai officials have been generous with their praise of foreign volunteers who were essential in the complicated search and rescue operation, including the two British divers who were the first to discover where the members of the Wild Boar soccer club were sheltering.
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On Tuesday, at least 12 people were killed and a frantic rescue operation was underway off the Indonesian island of Sulawesi for dozens of passengers of a sinking passenger ferry run aground by its captain in a desperate bid to save lives.
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In the wake of the June tragedy that claimed the lives of at least 80 people, she made numerous visits to the scene in North Kensington, including bringing a cake to the firefighters who had worked so bravely during the rescue operation.
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CAIRO — Egypt and Greece mounted a marine search-and-rescue operation early Thursday for an EgyptAir passenger jet with 66 people on board that disappeared over the Mediterranean shortly before it was due to land in Cairo, the airline and government officials said.
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SINGAPORE, Aug 22 (Reuters) - Ships, aircraft and divers from an international search-and-rescue operation were still looking for 10 missing U.S. sailors on Tuesday after a collision between a U.S. warship and a merchant vessel in waters near Singapore and Malaysia.
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The rhinos were among 310 animals that lost their lives in the deluge, divisional forest officer Suvasish Das of Kaziranga National Park said in a statement, adding that 106 animals had been saved in a desperate rescue operation by the local community.
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As the rescue efforts ramped up, more army boats and helicopters were operating in the worst-affected areas to "save as many people as possible," the government official involved in the rescue operation told Reuters by telephone from Thiruvananthapuram, the state capital.
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After I arrived at the sanctuary, about a two-hour drive from Brooklyn, Lauricella and her assistant, Paige Bellucci, showed me around, describing the realities of running their rescue operation and how they keep up an Instagram account with over 200,000 followers.
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But many Americans could think only of Donn Fendler, a 20143-year-old boy lost on Mount Katahdin in Maine, the object of a frantic search and rescue operation that dragged on for nine days, monopolizing the radio airwaves and newspaper headlines.
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Mohammad Hamdan Wahid, director general of the Fire and Rescue Department of Malaysia, told reporters attending the funeral of the men on Thursday that it was the most department personnel ever killed during a single rescue operation, the Malay Mail newspaper reported.
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In the case of Mr. Musk and his submarine, the Thai authorities understood that they needed to let the expert cave divers plan and direct the rescue operation (and Mr. Musk, to his credit, said he would take the lead from the divers).
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The return of the girls might wind up as a major propaganda coup for Boko Haram as villagers had been outraged at the way Nigerian officials had handled the girls' capture, and some questioned why the military did not launch a rescue operation.
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"There was no mention in court of the captain violating international rules or about what happened during the rescue operation," said Neil Falzon, the director of the Aditus Foundation, a Maltese human rights group that is offering legal assistance to Mr. Reisch.
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) has ended its sea rescue operation aimed at reducing the number of migrants and asylum seekers killed while trying to cross the Mediterranean from north Africa to Europe, it said on Tuesday.
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YANGON (Reuters) - The death toll in a Myanmar ferry sinking has reached 1203, authorities said on Friday, as they wrapped up a week-long search and rescue operation for survivors and prepared to launch an inquiry into the cause of the disaster.
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That diver is Vernon Unsworth, who is suing Musk for calling him a "pedo guy" on Twitter after Unsworth took part in the 2018 rescue operation that freed 12 boys and a soccer coach who were trapped inside a cave in Thailand.
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"These first responders and these survivors, they came down to the site as fast as they could and they stayed there for months, tenaciously searching first as a rescue operation and then as a recovery operation," Stewart told CNN's Brianna Keilar on Monday.
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Video via YouTube Two mass kidnappings in the troubled Hot Land region of the beleaguered Mexican state of Guerrero have ended with an unusual result — most of the victims have been released following a large rescue operation by the army and police.
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HSI plans to adopt out most of the cats and dogs to pet lovers in China, but several animals may be sent to forever homes in the U.K. and the U.S. This rescue operation is part of HSI's long-running protest against the festival.
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Black's call to Pamela came "over two hours after they knew or should have known that the boys were in imminent danger," investigators wrote, adding that it was Kornilloff's call that prompted the massive, multi-agency search and rescue operation that made headlines worldwide.
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"The terrain's geology is complicated, and that's slowing down the works," Angel Garcia, leader of the search-and-rescue operation, said on Friday, according to the AP. Despite the ordeal stretching nearly a week, officials said they are hopeful that the toddler is alive.
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Four members from a team of Polish climbers attempting the first winter ascent of nearby K2000, the world's second highest mountain, will assist in the rescue operation after a Pakistan Army helicopter picks them up from their base camp and flies them to Nanga Parbat.
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BEIRA, Mozambique, March 22 (Reuters) - The situation in the port city of Beira in Mozambique was "boiling" as residents suffered shortages of food, water and other essentials one week after a devastating cyclone, the head of a South African rescue operation said on Friday.
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LONDON, Jan 5 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) has ended its sea rescue operation aimed at reducing the number of migrants and asylum seekers killed while trying to cross the Mediterranean from north Africa to Europe, it said on Tuesday.
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But when the head of the rescue operation, Narongsak Osottanakorn, declared that Mr. Musk's contraption was impractical for the task at hand — a task that had been completed, at that point, by some of the world's top cave divers — Mr. Musk responded with irritation.
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THAM LUANG CAVE, Thailand — The prime minister of Thailand, Prayuth Chan-ocha, offered words of encouragement on Friday to the families of 12 boys and their soccer coach trapped in a flooded cave complex, and pledged to continue a massive search and rescue operation.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Jan 2 (Reuters) - Five commercial fishermen were believed to have died after their crabbing vessel sank on New Year's Eve in the Gulf of Alaska, the U.S. Coast Guard said after ending a search and rescue operation amid high winds and heavy seas.
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The department's search-and-rescue operation continued on Sunday afternoon, with assistance from the Arizona Department of Public Safety as well as from the Whispering Pines Fire Department, the United States Forest Service and the Tonto Rim Search and Rescue, a volunteer search group. Sgt.
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A massive rescue operation in Thailand was racing against the clock Thursday to pump water from a flooded cave complex, in hopes of allowing 12 boys from a soccer team and their coach trapped inside to wade out before heavy rains hit this weekend.
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The boys, aged 11 to 16, and their 25-year-old coach were safely brought out of the Tham Luang mountain cave complex near the border with Myanmar last week after a perilous rescue operation that drew global media attention and hundreds of journalists to the scene.
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"We have been informed by the Football Association of Thailand that due to medical reasons, the boys will not be in a position to travel to Moscow for the FIFA World Cup final," the sport&aposs governing body said Tuesday after the rescue operation was completed.
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At first, it seemed curious that Musk would divert his attention away from his sometimes struggling car company and his frankly super busy rocket company to aid in a rescue operation on the other side of the planet just because somebody on Twitter asked him to.
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Gavitte, 49, and his first officer and paramedic Whitney Lowe soon landed near a vineyard to begin what would become an extraordinary seven-hour rescue operation, conducted through the night by two helicopters in winds gusting up to 70 miles an hour (113 km per hour).
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KUALA LUMPUR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Southeast Asian nations must improve job prospects for women at home and step up law enforcement at their borders to stem the rising number of brides sold into China, anti-trafficking groups said on Tuesday, following a major regional rescue operation.
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Sunday, July 1: The rescue mission continues The international rescue operation -- including the Thai SEALs, along with experts from at least six countries -- has been working to reach a large, deep chamber, informally known as Pattaya Beach, where the missing boys are believed to have taken refuge.
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FOLLOW LIVE UPDATES Rescuers have a dwindling window of opportunity in which to extract the boys, with heavy rain falling shortly after the rescue operation began on Sunday afternoon and forecasters predicting yet more monsoon rains in the coming days, effectively sealing off the cave until October.
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The media spotlight on the rescue operation in southern Spain is reminiscent of that triggered by past efforts, like the one last year that saved 12 boys and their soccer coach who were trapped for more than two weeks in a flooded cave system in Thailand.
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A jury ruled on Friday that Elon Musk is not guilty of defaming Vernon Unsworth, a British cave explorer who took part in the 2018 rescue operation that freed 12 boys on a soccer team and their coach after they became trapped inside a cave in Thailand.
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Image 2 of 2 MAE SAI, Thailand – Authorities overseeing the rescue operation for 12 boys and their soccer coach from a flooded cave in northern Thailand said they have a "limited amount of time" to get them out, as they raced against worsening weather and lessening oxygen underground.
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Rescuers in Thailand on Monday freed four more members of the boys soccer team stranded in a flooded cave complex, as part of the second phase of a desperate rescue operation that aims to save four more kids and the team&aposs coach before heavy rains imperil the effort.
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Days after picking up the pieces from a failed bid to take his electric car manufacturer private — an attempt seemingly initiated by an ill-advised tweet — the billionaire revisited a groundless accusation he made about a private citizen involved in a child-rescue operation that caught the world's attention.
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It hardly seems like the site of a two-week-long, 153,000-person rescue operation that would pit the resolve of at least one government against the near-constant rain of the country's monsoon season, in a contest to save the Wild Boars, a local boys soccer team.
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Colonel Salah Osman, a police officer who was part of the rescue operation on Friday night, told CNN that the attack began when a car bomb exploded in a suicide blast at the gate of the Asasey, a heavily fortified hotel 500 km south of the capital Mogadishu.
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" According to the US and Canadian government's after action report, "the greatest risk to any large passenger vessel transit of the [Northwest Passage] is a Mass Rescue Operation involving the immediate displacement of large numbers of people from a vessel to small lifeboats/rafts and then transit toward landfall.
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The Orange County-based seat tops the nationwide list of Democratic targets, but it became the site of an early, multimillion-dollar rescue operation when it became clear the wide field of Democrats could split their vote enough to land a pair of Republicans atop the all-party primary on Tuesday.
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In the wake of the decommissioning of Mare Nostrum, a search and rescue operation run by Italy, the humanitarian organization Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), launched their own vessel, named the Bourbon Argos, to find those stranded at sea and save those in trouble on one of the deadliest routes to Europe.
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Working with the American consul, Hiram Bingham IV, who had already begun a quiet rescue operation of his own, Mr. Fry set up an office, first in the Hotel Splendide and then in an old leather-goods shop, which he later named the Centre Américain de Secours (American Relief Center).
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After a group of migrants' overcrowded vessel sank off the coast of Libya on Saturday — an episode in which at least 2703 of them drowned in the Mediterranean Sea — the rescue operation was recorded by a member of the Italian Coast Guard as the first responders scrambled to save lives.
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A large-scale search and rescue operation was launched Monday to find 10 U.S. sailors gone missing after the guided-missile destroyer USS John S. McCain collided with an oil tanker three times its size at the entrance to the Straits of Malacca – one of the world's busiest shipping lanes.
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But the BBC also outlined some of the conflicting reports surrounding the extent to which the boys were medicated: Sources in the rescue operation, including divers who took part, told the BBC that the boys were heavily sedated ahead of the rescue to prevent them panicking in the dark, narrow, underwater passageways.
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A large-scale search and rescue operation was launched Monday, in an attempt to find ten US sailors missing after the guided-missile destroyer USS John S. McCain collided with an oil tanker three times its size at the entrance to the Straits of Malacca—one of the world's busiest shipping lanes.
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The international rescue operation -- which includes more than 1,000 people from Thai emergency services, alongside a US military contingent and British cave experts -- has been ramping up its efforts since the 723 boys and their 25-year-old soccer coach disappeared during an outing in the caves in northern Thailand on June 23.
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The Rescuers Down Under This sprightly sequel about two brave mice (voiced by Bob Newhart and Eva Gabor) mounting a rescue operation actually tops its predecessor, with the disclaimer that the first movie landed in 1977, a relatively fallow period in terms of Disney animation, with the sequel coming 13 years later.
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Victims' relatives and friends hovered as a huge rescue operation, including hundreds of workers and neighbors, helped by a crane, a fire engine and dogs, prodded and pushed giant mounds of concrete and other rubble from the flattened building to reveal saris, steel pots and remnants of daily life crushed in seconds.
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The search and rescue operation for the junior soccer team, who disappeared in the cave in the northern province of Chiang Rai on June 303, had seemed to be nearing an end when British and Thai divers found the boys late on Monday, huddled on a small, muddy bank in a flooded chamber.
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"I wish to convey my deep appreciation to you and your engineering team for your expeditious and extraordinary efforts in constructing the Space-X mini-submarine 'Wild Boar' to assist the rescue operation of the Moo Pa Academy Football team trapped in Tham Luang Cave, Chiang Rai province," wrote General Prayut Chan-o-cha.
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S military * MV-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft involved * Search-and-rescue operation under way (Trump briefed by Kelly on mishap) By Tom Westbrook SYDNEY, Aug 6 (Reuters) - Rescue teams were searching for three U.S. Marines missing after their aircraft crashed into the sea off Australia's east coast on Saturday, the U.S. Marine Corps said.
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William Safire once traced the phrase to a 1980 article in The Christian Science Monitor in which a general, speaking of a possible rescue operation to retrieve the American hostages then held in Iran, argued that ''getting U.S. boots on the ground'' sent a signal to potential adversaries that the United States was prepared for war.
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After a protracted battle with the Tripoli-based government over whether its ships could enter Libyan waters, the EU launched Operation Sophia in 2015, the latest replacement for Italy's highly successful search and rescue operation called Mare Nostrum, which in a single year had plucked tens of thousands out of the 10,000 square miles of sea it scoured.
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Rather than call for help, Blu Stephanos set out in his own boat to search for the boys – a move that "delayed the official duties of law enforcement and military assistance in the most critical moments of a search and rescue operation when every minute counts," reads an early copy of the complaint obtained by PEOPLE.
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HOUSTON — What felt like an apocalyptic onslaught of pounding rains and rapidly rising floodwaters brought the nation's fourth-largest city to its knees on Sunday, as highways and residential streets turned to rivers, waist-high waters choked off access to homes and hospitals, and officials begged boat owners to pitch in with an enormous and frantic rescue operation.
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Those who died may have tried to swim from the boat on which the survivors were found, since it broke down and the migrants were in need of help, a coastguard official in Khoms said The survivors were from sub-Saharan African countries and included three children and 10 women, one of whom was pregnant and gave birth during the rescue operation, the official said.
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The Roosevelt and King films were the start of a productive period in which he made documentaries about the actress Liv Ullmann; the American journalist Varian Fry, who led a covert rescue operation in France during World War II that saved more than 2,000 artists, writers, philosophers and their families; and one about some of those exiles, who had emigrated to the United States.
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All boys, soccer coach rescued from Thai cave in drama that captivated the world Thai cave rescue operation recovers boys, coach: What comes next 'Two days, 8 boars, Hooyah': Thai Navy divers rescue 4 more boys from flooded Thailand cave The company focuses on faith and inspirational movies, and Scott said this tale has all the ingredients for a major hit that will draw A-list talent.
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The movie's story structure followed Die Hard closely as well: The opening 20 minutes briefly introduce the characters, there's a dramatic takeover sequence, the hero spends an hour tooling around on the inside and offing bad guys, the outside forces stage a dramatic rescue operation that fails, and in the end the hero battles it out with the bad guys through a destroyed version of the original location.
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In 2000, his first year in office, he traveled to a naval port in the Arctic Circle in a disastrous attempt to calm the grief of the widows and relatives of the 118 crewmen who perished in the sinking of the submarine Kursk, an episode during which Moscow declined foreign help to save the crew despite not having equipment of its own needed to launch a rescue operation.
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