Several refugees jumped into the sea from a Spanish rescue boat Sunday in a thwarted bid to reach shore in Italy, where the government’s hardline interior minister, Matteo Salvini, has refused to let the 107 passengers disembark.
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The captain of a Spanish charity ship carrying 134 rescued migrants warned Friday of the “explosive” situation on board the vessel anchored within swimming distance of Italy’s Lampedusa island but forbidden to approach.
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Libya’s coast guard recovered dozens of bodies of Europe-bound migrants who perished at sea as search operations continued Friday, a day after up to 150 people, including women and children, went missing and were feared drowned after their boats capsized in the Mediterranean Sea.
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A search and rescue operation was underway in northern Greece Thursday for a fisherman missing after a powerful storm left six people dead, including two children, and injured about 140.
Read moreThe sea captain who rammed a police boat while bringing 40 rescued immigrants to an Italian port she’d been warned to stay out of must be freed from house arrest, a judge ruled Tuesday in a decision that angered the Italian government minister who had declared the defiant mariner an outlaw.
Read moreGreek authorities broke human rights laws when they arrested a man in 2016 for trying to help asylum-seekers at sea reach Europe’s shores, according to a group of attorneys.
Read moreBANGKOK (AP) — A dog found swimming more than 135 miles from shore by workers on an oil rig crew
Read moreRangers at a national park in northeastern Thailand have rescued six baby elephants that were trapped in a mud pit.
Read morePakistan’s military dispatched two helicopters Thursday despite closure of its airspace amid tensions with neighboring India to find a pair of climbers from Italy and Britain who went missing on a Himalayan peak, a mountaineering official said.
Read moreFirefighters on Monday carefully moved over treacherous mud, sometimes walking, sometimes crawling, in search of survivors or bodies, four days after a dam collapse that buried mine buildings and surrounding neighborhoods with iron ore waste.
Read moreThe San Diego Humane Society has rescued 84 cockatiels from an apartment.
Read moreHis father called it “a New Year’s miracle.” Laboring through sub-freezing temperatures, Russian rescue workers were digging into a sprawling heap of jagged rubble from a collapsed apartment building when one heard the faintest sound. It was the sound of life. On Tuesday, to everyone’s delight and surprise, they pulled a baby boy out of the rubble alive, nearly 36 hours after the disaster that blew apart his home.
Read moreA dehydrated, disoriented hiker who was rescued by L.A. sheriff’s officers claims in a federal complaint that, as he was “sharing his story about his spirituality and the spiritual meaning behind the subject hike,” one officer was “not too keen on (plaintiff’s) verbose and talkative demeanor,” and punched him in the face, breaking his jaw.
Read moreThe aid groups Doctors Without Borders and SOS Mediterranee say they have been forced to end the migrant rescue operations of the Aquarius ship in the Mediterranean Sea.
Read moreA husband and wife claim in a federal complaint that the Houston SPCA and Montgomery County illegally seized their 231 rescued cats with a “bogus warrant.”
Read moreA California appeals court revived a wrongful-death and negligence claim against Riverside County, whose sheriff delayed the search for a mountain biker who was injured and died of hypothermia, on the erroneous belief in bad faith “that the victim was not missing, but was having an affair.”
Read moreA humanitarian rescue group that has been in a public fight with Italy’s new anti-immigrant government over its work rescuing asylum-seekers in the Mediterranean says the Italian government has pressured Panama to cancel its ship’s registration.
Read moreA British diver involved with the rescue of a Thai youth soccer team this summer sued Elon Musk on a defamation claim Monday over the Tesla Motors CEO’s accusations on social media that the diver is a pedophile.
Read moreThe European Commission said Monday that it is contact with a number of member states to identify a country willing to take 141 migrants picked up by a rescue ship, after the French groups operating the ship appealed for a safe port and Italy said Britain should take responsibility.
Read moreAuthorities say they’ve arrested three women believed to be the mothers of 11 children found living in filth in a makeshift compound in rural northern New Mexico.
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