Stranded migrants saved in Alps
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A Ukrainian mother and her five children, some without shoes, are rescued in the snowy Swiss Alps.
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Three Palestinians were rescued Thursday evening, after an apparent weapons smuggling tunnel they were digging on the Egyptian border near the Gaza Strip collapsed in the afternoon, burying them under mounds of sand.
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A group of schoolchildren is rescued after being stranded in the Mourne Mountains in Northern Ireland.
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A dusting of snow at the weekend brought some relief to anxious European ski resorts, where snow- making machines were out in force when it was cold enough.
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LAMPEDUSA, Italy - The barbed wire has gone and the dormitories look basic but reasonably clean. Welcome to the new-look camp for immigrants on the island of Lampedusa.
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FIVE German tourists who went missing in Algeria&#39;s Sahara desert have been found safe and well in the southern Djanet region of the north African country, local police said today.
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Â· Sightseeing flight took place in bad weather  Â· Army team sent in after villagers find wreckage
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The repatriation begins of hundreds of Asian migrants whose ship was stranded at sea off Mauritania.
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ST. LOUIS, Senegal -- A fishing boat crowded with more than 100 African migrants capsized at least twice while sailing to Spain's Canary Islands, spilling passengers and leaving scores dead as survivors drifted for about 10 days without food or water, officials said yesterday .
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More than 40 miners who were trapped underground Wednesday by a fire in an Australian gold mine have been rescued, local media reported.
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Officials step up attempts to ease situation for millions of travellers stranded prior to new year celebrations
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Sport: The game brought by immigrant workers in the early 20th century is enjoying an amazing resuscitation, writes Andy Bull.
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Five Europeans abducted almost two weeks ago in one of Ethiopia's most remote, inhospitable regions were released Tuesday, but a group of Ethiopians abducted at the same time remain hostages
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At least 2 dead as Calif. effort helps find dozens of stranded hikers caught in freak blizzard this week. BY BEN MARGOT. YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif.
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ITALY has begun airlifting migrants back to their point of departure after its southern outpost was swamped by hundreds of new arrivals.
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Six mountain climbers have died of  exposure in the Alps when temperatures plunged to well below  freezing, Italian and French officials said on Wednesday.
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Rescuers have found the bodies of seven African migrants in a boat adrift in the Atlantic Ocean, while almost 50 others are missing from the vessel trying to reach Spain's Canary Islands, Spanish authorities said Thursday.