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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

Norway

'Completely destroyed': Wooden road bridge collapses in Norway

The drivers of two vehicles have been rescued and doing well, police said.

Italy

Suspected bank robber rescued in Rome after tunnel collapse

Police say the man was buried under the rubble for several hours.

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Stranded beluga whale removed from France's Seine river

The beluga whale stranded in the river Seine in northern France was removed from the water early Wednesday in the first stage of an ambitious rescue operation.

France

Rescuers move to save whale stranded in the River Seine near Paris

The whale, first spotted in the River Seine last week, is dangerously thin and on the brink of death.

Austria

Over 100 people on school trip airlifted to safety in Austrian Alps

Police say the group were stuck on a mountainous ridge and did not have the necessary equipment.

Travel News

Watch this incredible footage of a jetpack-flying medic

This is the first time a Great North Air Ambulance paramedic has flown a jet suit up a mountain in the UK’s Lake District.

Nature

Spanish diver saves 12-metre humpback whale in 'daring' rescue mission

32-year-old marine biologist and diver Gigi Torras said the experience was 'incredible'.

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More than 400 migrants rescued by Doctors Without Borders

470 migrants rescued off the coast of Libya and Malta in the past few weeks is waiting in the Mediterranean to be granted a safe port.