Tag: Rescue

How often do you see a unicorn, let alone a unicorn "rescue"? CNN's Jeanne Moos reports.

The last remaining member of the Wild Boars soccer team and his coach have been pulled out of a flooded cave in Thailand, bringing an end to a near three-week ordeal that prompted a huge international recuse effort.

Divers have rescued three boys from the youth soccer team trapped in a cave in Thailand, according to a witness.

Spain’s foreign minister has described his government’s decision to take in the hundreds of refugees and migrants aboard the Aquarius rescue ship as a “highly symbolic act” intended to jolt Europe out of its “ostrich politics” on the issue of migration. The 629 people, including children and pregnant women, were rescued by the French NGO SOS Méditerranée from waters off the coast of Libya on Saturday, and the Aquarius was caught in a standoff over the weekend in which both Italy and Malta refused to allow it to dock. Spain’s new prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, stepped in on Monday and said the ship would be welcome in the port of Valencia, insisting his country had a duty to help avert “a humanitarian catastrophe”. “This is a shared problem and it has to be treated as a shared problem,” he said. “This is a victory for the people who are on the boat,” he said. “They’re the ones who have won because we don’t know where they’d be without Spain.” He also dismissed suggestions that the move could bring more people across the Mediterranean, saying demographics and economics had already made Europe “a magnet”. Spain rescues hundreds of migrants from Mediterranean Read more MSF applauded Sánchez’s offer of safe harbour but said the priority had to be the immediate disembarkation of the rescued migrants. “However, this would mean already exhausted people rescued at sea would have to endure four more days exposed to the elements on the deck, in an overcrowded boat already well over maximum capacity and in deteriorating weather conditions. The Valencia regional government said it was expecting the migrants to arrive by the end of the week. Italy cannot accept hypocritical lessons from countries that have always preferred to turn their backs when it comes to immigration,” Conte’s office said.