Copters Rescue 57 Trapped by Landslides
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More than 50 people were rescued by two military helicopters Wednesday after landslides caused by heavy rains trapped their vehicles on a highway in Scotland, police said.
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Rescue workers recovered more than 300 bodies on Thailand&#39;s remote Phi Phi Island on Tuesday, two days after a series of powerful waves devastated the tourist paradise.
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BEIJING - Torrential floods in south-western China have claimed at least 90 lives, leaving 77 others missing. Local officials yesterday sought help from the military in rescuing hundreds trapped by mudslides and caved-in roads.
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Rescue workers spent all day Saturday digging through a massive snow pile but found no traces of five people feared dead in a 300-yard-wide, 500-yard-long avalanche that cascaded down a Utah mountainside a day earlier.
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CAN THO, Vietnam  - Rescue workers found five more bodies on Thursday in the rubble of a bridge that collapsed in southern Vietnam, the country's worst bridge accident in which up to 60 workers were killed.
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Most of the 30 bald eagles who survived a disastrous dive into a truck full of fish guts are close to recovery, said officials at the Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge.
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GONAIVES, Haiti - The death toll from a tropical storm that devastated parts of Haiti rose to 573 late Monday as search crews recovered hundreds of bodies carried away by raging weekend floods or buried by mud or the ruins of their homes, officials said.    The bodies of at least 500 people killed by Tropical Storm Jeanne were filling morgues in Gonaives, according to Touissant Kong-Doudou, a spokesman for the U.N...
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REAL, Philippines : Philippine rescuers are digging through the rubble of a collapsed building for more survivors, as the number of dead and missing from two storms which lashed the country rose to nearly 1,600.
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Five people were rescued off the Cornish coast yesterday after drifting for seven days in a life-raft amid storms and 30ft waves after their boat sank near the Isles of Scilly.
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Rescue operation atthe site of an air crash killing all 53 people aboard a commuter plane and one more on the ground on Sunday morning was declared conclusion Tuesday.
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Helicopters rescued dozens of people Saturday following heavy rains and floods in England that also forced more than 2,000 motorists, homeowners and train passengers to spend the night in shelters.
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Rescuers dug for survivors Wednesday after landslides and floods triggered by days of torrential rain killed dozens of people in western Indonesia.
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Relief workers battled rain and choppy seas yesterday to deliver food and medicine to the country&#39;s northeast following devastating back-to-back storms that killed at least 568 people and left hundreds more missing.
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Doug Schneider, 47, left, and Britt &quot;Mac&quot; Jefferson, 57, center, are hoisted into a rescue helicopter by Staff Sgt. James Bryson of the Mather Air Force Base Army National Guard near Yosmite National Park, Calif.
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LA CONCHITA, Calif.  - Southern California rescue  workers dug into a 30-foot mound of mud and debris on Tuesday  searching for as many as 27 people who may have been buried  amid homes crushed by a landslide unleashed by a week of heavy  rain.
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Rescue teams have been sent by air to help find dozens of people still missing after deadly landslides buried villages in eastern Indonesia, officials said on Sunday.
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Rescuers find several people  after a plane crashes in the Peruvian Amazon with up to 20 people on board.