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Helicopter rescues Taiwan miners, stranded hotel guests confirmed safe

Helicopter rescues Taiwan miners, stranded hotel guests confirmed safe

A helicopter plucked to safety six people stranded in a mining area after Taiwan's worst earthquake in 25 years, and rescue workers reached 400 people cut off in a hotel in a mountainous national park by air, and confirmed all were safe. Hundreds of aftershocks struck Taiwan's eastern region, driving scores to seek shelter outdoors, as the death toll from Wednesday's 7.2-magnitude quake rose to 10, with the tally of injured at 1,099, authorities said. A helicopter ferried to safety six miners trapped on a cliff in a dramatic rescue after the quake cut off the roads into Hualien's soaring mountains, in…
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South African peacekeeper killed in DRC after U.N. chopper comes under fire

South African peacekeeper killed in DRC after U.N. chopper comes under fire

ONE U.N. peacekeeper from South Africa was killed in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo when a helicopter operated by the peacekeeping force came under fire while in mid-air, the U.N. mission in Congo and South Africa's military said. The helicopter came under fire after taking off from the city of Beni in the early afternoon. Another South African peacekeeper was also wounded in the attack but could continue flying and landed safely at the airport of the provincial capital Goma, the South African National Defence Force said in a statement. Neither South Africa nor the U.N. mission called MONUSCO…
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