Riham is heavily pregnant and just days away from giving birth, but she has no idea who will cover her hospital expenses. She fled Gaza when she was six months pregnant and has repeatedly asked the Palestinian embassy in Egypt for help, so far in vain. “All I got was promises that everything will be […]
IRON STATION, N.C. (QUEEN CITY NEWS) — A Lincoln County community that has continuously been cut off from the rest of world now has a real way out. A concrete bridge was completed this week on the privately owned Amity Lane near Iron Station, to the relief of nearly 50 families. The previous incarnation had […]
DUBLIN (Reuters) – Some of the world’s largest aircraft lessors faced off against their insurers in a Dublin courtroom on Tuesday at the start of a months-long battle over around 2.5 billion euros ($2.7 billion) of insurance claims related to jets stranded in Russia. Lessors are suing dozens of insurers around the world over losses […]
A kite surfer stranded on a California beach used rocks to spell “HELP,” leading to his rescue Sunday, officials said. A private helicopter spotted the man on a beach south of Davenport Landing and called for what the sign made out of rocks asked —help. Video of the rescue was posted to social media by […]
EL AMRA, Tunisia (AP) — For many migrants who’ve long dreamed of Europe, one of the last stops is an expanse of olive trees on North Africa’s Mediterranean coastline. But in Tunisia, less than 100 miles (161 kilometers) from the Italian islands that form the European Union’s outermost borders, for many that dream has become […]
Jun. 1—One climber stranded near the summit of Denali since Tuesday was rescued by helicopter Friday morning, the National Park Service said, but his climbing partner died awaiting rescue and his remains have now been recovered. Clouds and high winds prevented park authorities from reaching the men until about 6 a.m. Friday. The park service’s […]
Several groups of climbers were escorted to safety by mountain rescue services on Saturday after running into difficulties in snow and bad weather on Germany’s highest peak. They were brought to the Sonnalpin glacier restaurant on the Zugspitzplatt plateau, the mountain rescue service said. Some 29 climbers were making their way to the peak despite […]
SAN DIEGO (KSWB/KUSI) — A Carnival cruise ship responded to calls for help and detoured from its normal vacation route on Saturday to help two dozen people stranded at sea off the coast of Mexico. Sailing from its homeport of Long Beach in Southern California, the cruise ship responded to a call from the U.S. […]
Narrowboat owners have said the closure of a major lock was having a “major financial impact”. The gates at Salters Lode in Downham Market, Norfolk connect many waterways in Cambridgeshire and have been shut all year. A build up of silt on the tidal side of the lock means the gates that are operated by […]
A Carnival Cruise Line ship responded to a call from the U.S. Coast Guard and rescued 25 people stranded in a small boat off the coast of Mexico, the company announced Saturday. The 2,984-passenger Carnival Radiance had left Long Beach, California, on Friday and was heading toward Ensenada Mexico for a three-day sailing when the […]
A Minnesota couple in the midst of a “bureaucratic nightmare” amid a months-long stay in Brazil, where paperwork issues regarding their newborn son have prevented them from returning to the United States, is one step closer to being able to leave. Chris and Cheri Phillips, of Cambridge, located 50 miles north of Minneapolis, visited the […]
A hiker found himself stranded in a precarious spot on top of a “hoodoo with a sharp, catastrophic drop on all sides” in Utah, rescuers said. The man in his 60s injured his ankle and had leaped over a 5-foot chasm onto the rock spire — and then couldn’t get back across the gap, Grand […]