New York Daily News reports that two German nationals briefly kidnapped in Lebanon’s eastern Bekaa Valley were released early Saturday, as a gunfight between their abductors and security forces killed a soldier and a gunman, officials said. It wasn’t immediately clear what led to the Germans being abducted in the Bekaa Valley, a popular tourist destination home to wineries and temples, though also dominated by powerful armed clans and a center of Lebanon’s drug trade. Read article
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Wesh.com reports that a blind South Korean tourist who speaks no English went missing after touring New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art — prompting a search that ended happily, with him being found safe and sound, police said. Taeheung Kim, 41, became separated from his tour late Thursday afternoon and was last seen by a […]
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According to cbc.ca, a German tourist who was stranded for days on the shoreline of a Labrador river was finally rescued on Thursday. Rüdiger Eder, 55, was dropped off at the Kenamu River Bridge on the Trans-Labrador Highway on Sunday for a three-day trip on the river. Eder had been paddling for about five hours […]
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The Local Switzerland reports that an excursion boat ran aground on the River Aare in the canton of Solothurn on Tuesday forcing 148 passengers to board another vessel. The stricken MS Rousseau, operated by the Lake Biel Navigation Company (BSG), lost steering following technical problems in the afternoon, the SDA news agency reported. The vessel, […]
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Stuff.co.nz reports that police have found a Chinese backpacker missing since Sunday in National Park, in the central North Island. A search team found the man alive just after 1pm today on the outskirts of the area, police said. Police earlier boosted their search teams to look for the backpacker. One team searched throughout the […]
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Australiantimes.co.uk reports that an 80-year-old Australian tourist has had a miraculous escape after slip 30 meters off a cliff path in Cornwall before becoming entangled in brambles. The elderly man was walking along a cliff path in Mount Edgcumbe Country Park when he slipped off the edge. Rescuers say he only just narrowly avoided falling […]
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According to agi.it, a boat carrying a group of tourists has sunk off Sardinia’s coast. All the passengers have been rescued. Read article
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Shanghaidaily.com reports that two injured people have been rescued off Western Australia’s Coral Coast after activating their boat’s Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacon (EPIRB) to alert the authorities, local media reported Friday. Police said the couple was swamped by a wave near a reef, north of the North Passage, close to Exmouth on Thursday. They […]
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According to latimes.com, Dana Harris was about to cross Hill Street late Thursday morning when she heard the Angels Flight funicular shake and grind louder than usual. When she turned around, she saw the lower train had twisted off its track, leaving its sole passenger stranded in the derailed car. Harris told Melanie Sherrin — […]
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NBC News reports that a kayaker from New Zealand was rescued from an island off the Australian coast Tuesday after being stalked by a “very, very, very large” crocodile for more than two weeks. Ryan Blair became trapped on remote Governor Island in Western Australia after he had been dropped off by a boat to […]
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