HMAS ANZAC RESCUES 15 PEOPLE
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Australian warship, HMAS Anzac, rescued 15 people from a sinking Indonesian boat near Singapore, Australia&#39;s Department of Defence has reported.
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HMAS Anzac found the freighter between the Islands of Kalimantan and Sumatra. Anzac was on its way to take part in exercises with Singaporean and Malaysian forces.
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Five people were rescued by coastguards today after spending eight days at sea in a life-raft. The survivors were picked up off the coast of Cornwall this morning and are being treated in hospital, a coastguard ...
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A rescue operation to save 37 people on a sinking yacht off Australia's northeast coast on Tuesday involved helicopters winching people to safety and passengers climbing tether ropes to reach a nearby island.
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A major rescue operation is launched after 110 children are swept into the Irish Sea, but all are rescued safely.
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A TEENAGE boy had to rescued by Birmingham fire crews after beconing stranded on an island in the middle of a pool in Gumbleberries Road, Alum Rock.   Firefighters, including a special water rescue unit, brought the youth to safety last night using a nine-metre ladder.
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Divers have rescued two crew who spent  15 hours on the seabed in a stranded rescue submarine off  Australia's west coast, the military said on Tuesday.
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Four people on board a fishing boat that took on water near Tiree are rescued by helicopter.
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Grant Wharington and the 15 crew members of his 98-foot Skandia were safe in Hobart last night but &quot;lucky to be alive&quot; after transferring to two life-rafts, as their super-maxi wallowed upside-down in rough seas, 80 miles off Tasmania.
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Twenty crew have been rescued from a Greek ship which is listing in the English Channel off Devon.
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Fifteen pilot whales died in beach strandings Wednesday in southern New Zealand while rescuers monitored progress of 15 others toward safer waters, conservation officials said.
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AN Australian navy frigate has plucked 15 people to safety from a burning and sinking Indonesian boat. The dramatic rescue was made 200 nautical miles east of Singapore.
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By CREAN, Mike  A journey along the Waitaki Valley provides a living history lesson.   A dozen armed policemen advanced on the camp and ordered everyone out.   Slowly, 150 Maori men, women and children filed into the gently falling snow.
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The U.S. Coast Guard rescued 40 people from a 175-foot research vessel Friday evening after receiving a distress call, authorities said.
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Rescuers scoured the sea for missing  tourists and soldiers raced to recover bodies amid fears of  disease as Asia counted the cost on Monday of a tsunami that  killed more than 15,500 from India to Indonesia.
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SYDNEY: Huge seas beached a 40,000-tonnage coal ship in Australia on Friday, sparking a major rescue operation that saw all 22 crew members airlifted off the stricken vessel in gale force winds.
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One of the world&#39;s biggest humanitarian relief efforts came to life yesterday as warships, helicopters, search aircraft, transport planes and refrigerated containers