Tag: Search and rescue efforts
Iraqi medics recount horrors from Baghdad’s hospital inferno
<p>BAGHDAD — It was a night of unimaginable horror as flames engulfed the intensive care unit of a Baghdad hospital: deafening screams, a patient...
Quarterback competitions abound in SEC exiting spring
<p>Southeastern Conference teams are searching for the next Kyle Trask or Mac Jones, quarterbacks who emerged as stars in their first full season as...
Life jackets, debris found in search for missing workers
CHAUVIN, La. — Volunteers searching for seven men still missing after the oil industry boat they worked on capsized off Louisiana’s coast said they...
Life jackets, debris found in search for missing workers
<p>CHAUVIN, La. — Volunteers searching for seven men still missing after the oil industry boat they worked on capsized off Louisiana’s coast said they...
Pope: Migrants begged for help at sea, shamefully ignored
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis on Sunday decried as shameful the deaths of 130 migrants in the Mediterranean, saying they pleaded for two days...
Rescue groups decry loss of migrant lives in Mediterranean
ROME — Rescue groups and the Vatican are decrying the latest deaths of migrants who put to sea in traffickers’ unseaworthy boats, amid laments...
Pope: Migrants begged for help at sea, shamefully ignored
<p>VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis on Sunday decried as shameful the deaths of 130 migrants in the Mediterranean, saying they pleaded for two days...
Rescue groups decry loss of migrant lives in Mediterranean
<p>ROME — Rescue groups and the Vatican are decrying the latest deaths of migrants who put to sea in traffickers’ unseaworthy boats, amid laments...
130 Europe-bound migrants feared dead off Libyan coast
<p>CAIRO — More than 100 Europe-bound migrants are feared dead in a shipwreck off the Libyan Mediterranean coast, independent rescue groups said. </p>
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Danger in the depths: submarine disasters highlight risks
<p>BANGKOK — The disappearance of an Indonesian submarine off the resort island of Bali follows dozens of other disasters in the depths of the...