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Dramatic baby rescue amid severe flooding in southeastern Spain

Workers battled waist-high floodwaters to get to those who were stranded after two days of torrential rain.

14 September 2019

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Rescue efforts underway in Alicante as roads are submerged in flood waters

Rescue efforts were underway in the Spanish village of Pilar de la Horadada on Friday (September 13), as a third person died due to the series of floods across the Southern region

13 September 2019

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Bear cub stuck in rubbish container rescued

A bear cub trapped in a dumpster in California managed to free itself when deputies placed a ladder in the container.

3 September 2019

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Rescue underway as flood batters southwest China’s Sichuan province

Rescue operations are underway after recent floods destroyed roads and trapped residents in southwest China's Sichuan province.

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Elephants saved after getting stuck in muddy pond

Five elephants were rescued this week after getting trapped in a large muddy hole in Malaysia. Local media reported that the elephants were found stuck on August 20. in an abandoned illegal mining pool, located in Pahang's forest reserve, about 200 kilometres east of capital Kuala Lumpur.

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Thailand's self-styled snake wrangler to the rescue

In the dead of night, Thai firefighter Pinyo Pukpinyo stealthily approaches a python coiled around the rafters of a home in Bangkok and quickly grabs its head with his bare hands.

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Small plane makes emergency landing on main highway in Croatia

Probably due to engine failure, a small two-passenger sports aircraft landed on the A6 motorway at the Ravna Gora junction in the direction of Rijeka.

Italy

EU seeks countries to take in migrants stranded at Italian port

Germany says it is ready to take some migrants, refused permission to disembark from an Italian coastguard vessel in Sicily.

World

Mediterranean migrant sea rescues about to restart

Two charities dedicated to rescuing migrants in the Mediterranean are about to resume operations there - seven months after they were forced to stop using their ship, Aquarius. SOS Mediterranee and Doctors Without Borders (MSF) will restart operations using a new vessel, the Ocean Viking.

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SOS Mediterranee and MSF restart migrant rescue mission

After the Aquarius, which sailed from 2016 to 2018, SOS Mediterranee is going back at sea with the Ocean Viking.

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Toddler rescued from 9-metre-deep well in eastern China

Firefighters heroically rescued a two-year-old boy that had fallen into a deserted well on Tuesday in Xuzhou City in east China's Jiangsu Province.

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NGOs push for decriminalisation of rescuing migrants

ProActiva Open Arms, a Spanish NGO that rescues migrants in the Mediterranean, brought one of their boats to Strasbourg to make a point. Euronews spoke with the crew and MEPs about the legal debate over rescuing migrants.

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Sailor rescued by Spanish Civil Guard after vessel capsized

Members of Spanish Civil Guard rescued a yachtsman whose vessel capsized three miles off Vilassa de Mar in northeast Spain.

Italy

Heroine or criminal? Sea-Watch 3 Captain Carola Rakete divides opinion

Carola Rakete, the captain of the rescue ship Sea-Watch 3, which defied the Italian government ban and docked at Lampedusa, has said she regrets any alarm caused when the ship trapped a police boat against the quay.

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Why did Sea-Watch 3 decide to enter Italian waters?

Those on board tell Euronews that "the real solution to the problem is to have safe and legal passage for anyone fleeing and looking for safe harbour.”

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Watch again: Defying Rome, migrant rescue ship enters Italian waters

Watch again: Defying Rome, migrant rescue ship Sea-Watch 3 enters Italian waters

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Firefighters save driver after car swept away in flash floods

This is the moment firefighters rescued a woman from a car in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, after flash flooding.

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Government warplanes 'bomb last rebel stronghold in Syria'

Syrian rescue workers and activists say government warplanes have again bombed the last rebel stronghold in the country, levelling a building and killing five people inside it, including three members of a single family.

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Man clings onto ledge as building burns in Rome

A young man was forced to escape from his room and seek safety on a cornice when a fire ripped through his building in Rome.

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Baby elephant rescued from lake in northeastern India

An elephant calf was rescued from a lake by forest authorities on Friday (May 10), after becoming separated from its mother in India's northeastern Kamrup district.