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Watch: Bosnia rescuers bring aid to stranded flood victims

Rescuers in Bosnia reached hundreds of flooded homes by boat, handing out food and water to residents who remained trapped after sudden flooding on Wednesday.

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Watch: Italian residents recued from flood via dinghys and helicopters

Footage released by the Italian Coast Guard showed rescuers descending from a helicopter to collect two people from their rooftop in Faenza, in the Emilia-Romagna region.

Green News

Family of tigers dumped by circus thriving in big cat sanctuary

What are the train tigers' lives like one year later?

Italy

More than 100 migrants were rescued in the Mediterranean

More than 100 migrants, including 24 minors, arrived at the Italian port of Brindisi after they were rescued from the Mediterranean.

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Nature

Life-saving dogs: How to train a search and rescue dog

These four-legged heroes have a sense of smell 100,000x better than humans

Health news

How long can people survive in earthquake rubble?

Rescuers in Turkey are still pulling out people alive from collapsed buildings, a week after the country's worst earthquake in modern history.

Turkey

'We were married for 52 years': Earthquake survivors painful search

'We were married for 52 years,' earthquake survivors painful search for families in Antakya, southern Turkey. The devastation follows the earthquake which hit on Monday morning.

Turkey

Mounting pressure on Erdogan as he visits quake-stricken areas

With just three months to go before the presidential elections, Erdogan has acknowledged 'shortcomings' in his government's response to the earthquakes.

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Watch: 'Where is my mum?' child pulled from Turkey rubble asks

"Where is my mum?" A girl asks rescuers as she is pulled from the rubble caused by a devastating earthquake in Turkey and Northern Syria on Monday night.

Travel News

Is it safe to travel to Turkey and Syria after the earthquakes?

Details on travel to the region and donations appeals launched by the travel industry.

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WATCH: Victims treated in Syrian hospital following deadly quake

At least 3,500 people have died in quakes felt in Syria and Turkey.

United Kingdom

Hope of survivors ends after deadly blast at flats in Jersey

Emergency services switched from search and rescue to a "recovery operation" on Sunday.

Italy

Woman gives brith on MSF rescue ship after sea rescue by NGO

A woman gave birth to a boy on the Geo Barents medical clinic after being rescued from a dinghy floating in the middle of the sea.

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Brazilian firefighters rescue people from rooftops after flooding

Brazilian firefighters rescue stranded people from rooftops after heavy rain has caused rivers to breach their banks.

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Five hundred people crammed in fishing boat rescued in Mediterranean

A boat believed to be carrying hundreds of migrants is safely towed to the Greek island of Crete after a dramatic rescue complicated by near gale-force winds, a coastguard said.

Indonesia

Dozens still missing amid rescue efforts after Indonesia earthquake

Rescuers have used their bare hands to shift the rubble of flattened buildings in some of the worst affected areas.

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Building Collapses in Nairobi, killing two people

A multi-story building Collapses in the capital of Kenya, Nairobi, killing two people.

Travel News

Rescued: Five Grand Canyon tourists spend night 60 metres underground

The five visitors became trapped in a Grand Canyon cave when the access elevator malfunctioned, local authorities have said.

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Rescuers save whales in Australian mass stranding "hotspot"

Rescuers work to save dozens of the beached long-finned pilot whales on Australia's rugged west coast of Tasmania.

Nature

Rescue efforts underway for more than 200 whales beached in Tasmania

The stranding comes just days after 14 sperm whales were found stranded on an island off the southeastern coast.