Hundreds of Nigerian Schoolgirls Taken in Mass Abduction
Gunmen abducted 317 girls from a boarding school in northern Nigeria on Friday, police said, the latest in a series of mass kidnappings of students in the West African nation.
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Cat That Vanished 15 Years Ago Is Reunited With Owner
A cat that went astray about 15 years ago has been reunited, older and maybe wiser, with its owner.
Read moreApe Escape: Indonesian Orangutans Airlifted Back to the Wild
Borneo’s orangutans have plummeted by more than 100,000 since 1999 amid increasing fatal conflicts with people and their jungle habitat
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In Israel, Mayo Provides Miracle for Endangered Turtles
Only a handful of sea turtles survived after a disastrous oil spill blackened most of Israel’s shoreline and reached beaches of neighboring Lebanon.
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Koala Rescued After 5-Car Pileup on Australian Freeway
A koala has been rescued after causing a five-car pileup while trying to cross a six-lane freeway in southern Australia.
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Turkish Man Strikes Up 37-Year Friendship With Swan
An unusual friendship between a Turkish man and a swan he rescued has endured for decades.
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Rescuers in India Digging for 37 Trapped in Glacier Flood
Rescuers in northern India worked Monday to rescue more than three dozen power plant workers trapped in a tunnel after part of a Himalayan glacier broke off and sent a wall of water and debris rushing down a mountain in a disaster that has left at least 26 people dead and 165 missing.
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9 Workers Found Dead in China Gold Mine Explosions
Chinese rescuers have found the bodies of nine workers killed in explosions at a gold mine, raising the death toll to 10, officials said Monday.
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Norway: ‘No Longer Hope’ of Finding Landslide Survivors
Norwegian authorities said Tuesday they “no longer hope to find survivors” of a landslide that swept away homes in a residential area almost a week ago, killing seven people.
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Search Continues for Survivors After Major Norway Landslide
Rescue workers in Norway on Thursday continued searching for 10 people, including children, who are missing a day after a massive landslide struck a residential area near the capital.
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Russian Fishing Trawler Sinks in Barents Sea, 17 Missing
A Russian fishing trawler sank Monday in the northern Barents Sea and 17 of its crew are still missing, emergency officials said. Two other crew members have been rescued.
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20 Migrants Dead Off Tunisia After Boat Sinks, More Missing
About 20 African migrants were found dead Thursday after their smuggling boat sank in the Mediterranean Sea while trying to reach Europe, Tunisian authorities said. Five survivors were rescued and the Tunisian navy is searching for up to 20 others still believed missing.
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Motorist Rescued After 10 Hours in Car Buried by Snow Plow
A New York State Police sergeant rescued a man stranded for hours in a car covered by nearly 4 feet of snow thrown by a plow during this week’s storm, authorities said.
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Freed Nigerian Schoolboys Welcomed; Calls for More Security
Bleary, barefoot, apparently numbed by a week of captivity, more than 300 Nigerian schoolboys, freed after being kidnapped in an attack on their school, were welcomed by the governor of Katsina state Friday.
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Chihuahua Dog Missing for 5 Years in California Is Found
A Chihuahua dog named Sweet-Pea who went missing five years ago in Southern California has been found and is back home.
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‘World’s Loneliest Elephant’ Arrives Safely in Cambodia
The pachyderm dubbed the “world’s loneliest elephant ” after languishing alone for years in a Pakistani zoo was greeted on his arrival in Cambodia on Monday by chanting Buddhist monks and was then sent on his way to a wildlife sanctuary.
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Jumbo Task: Elephant Hoisted From Deep Well in India
DHARMAPURI, India (AFP) — A wild elephant that fell into a well in southern India was lifted out with a
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Quake Toll Rises to 116 in Turkey; Rescuers Finish Searches
The death toll in last week’s Aegean Sea earthquake rose to 116 on Wednesday as rescuers in the Turkish city of Izmir finished searching buildings that collapsed in the quake.
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Turkish Rescuers Pull Girl From Rubble 4 Days After Quake
Rescuers in the Turkish city of Izmir pulled a young girl out alive from the rubble of a collapsed apartment building Tuesday, four days after a strong earthquake hit Turkey and Greece and as hopes of reaching survivors began to fade.
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Race to Save Whales in Sri Lanka’s Biggest Mass Stranding
Rescuers and volunteers were racing Monday to save about 100 pilot whales stranded on Sri Lanka’s western coast in the island nation’s biggest-ever mass beaching.
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