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Race to rescue family after building collapses

A seven-story apartment building in Turkey’s northwestern city of Gebze has collapsed, trapping five people under the rubble. Gebze Governor İlhami Aktas said it has been confirmed that the people under the rubble are members of one family. It was not yet known if there are any casualties. Disaster and Emergency Management Directorate, or AFAD, teams are on site conducting rescue operations.

History

WWI soldiers’ messages in a bottle found 100 years later

Messages in a bottle written by two Australian soldiers a few days into their voyage to the battlefields of France during World War I have been found more than a century later on Australia’s coast. The Brown family found the Schweppes-brand bottle just above the waterline at Wharton Beach near Esperance in Western Australia state on October 9, Deb Brown said. Her husband Peter and daughter Felicity made the find during one of the family’s regular quad bike expeditions to clear the beach of trash.

Adventure

The man who skied Everest’s most dangerous route

Mountaineer Jim Morrison hopped left on his skis, sending trickles of snow down a sheer gully on the North Face of Mount Everest, then he hopped to the right, his breath heavy in the oxygen-thin air. Below him plunged 9000 feet (2700 meters) of snow, ice and rock – the most merciless ski run on planet Earth. It had never been skied – until Morrison did it. “It was a spectacular four hours of skiing down a horrific snow pack,“ Morrison said of his historic October 15 run.

Politics

‘It’s too bad’: Trump laments inability to seek third term

President Donald Trump says “it’s too bad” he’s not allowed to run for a third term, conceding the constitutional reality even as he expressed interest in continuing to serve. “If you read it, it’s pretty clear,“ Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One enroute from Japan to South Korea. “I’m not allowed to run. It’s too bad.”

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Odd Spot

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Monkeys escape from overturned truck

Monkeys being transported on a Mississippi highway have escaped captivity after the truck carrying them overturned, according to law enforcement. All but one of the escaped monkeys were killed, the Jasper County Sheriff’s Department said, warning that the monkeys were “aggressive”. It was not clear how many monkeys were originally in the truck. The truck was carrying Rhesus monkeys, which typically weigh around 16 pounds (7.7kg) and are among the most medically studied animals on the planet.

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Sudan

‘Terrible escalation’ in Sudan

Paramilitary fighters in vehicles, on camels and on foot have rampaged through the Sudanese military’s last stronghold in Darfur, killing and detaining hundreds of people in the latest atrocity of a war that has raged in Sudan for over 31 months. The Rapid Support Forces, or RSF, overran the city of El Fasher, the capital of North Darfur state, in what the United Nations chief called a “terrible escalation” in the conflict.

Africa

Tourists die in Kenya plane crash

A plane crash has killed 11 people, mostly foreign tourists, in Kenya’s coastal region of Kwale while en route to Maasai Mara National Reserve. The airline, Mombasa Air Safari, said eight Hungarian and two German passengers were on board, and that the Kenyan pilot was also killed. The plane crashed in a hilly and forested area about 40km (25 miles) from Diani airstrip, authorities said.

Germany

Bird flu hits migrating cranes

In a spot outside Berlin that’s usually a paradise for birdwatchers, volunteers have recovered nearly 2,000 dead cranes in recent days as bird flu has hit the migrating birds hard. Linum, a small village about an hour’s travel from the German...

In Depth

Inside the failed CIA plot to recruit Maduro’s pilot

The federal agent had a daring pitch for Nicolás Maduro’s chief pilot: All he had to do was surreptitiously divert the Venezuelan president’s plane to a place where US authorities could nab the strongman. In exchange, the agent told the pilot in a clandestine meeting, the aviator would be made a very rich man. The conversation was tense, and the pilot left noncommittal, though he provided the agent, Edwin Lopez, with his phone number – a sign he might be interested in helping the US government.

Politics

Biden autopen report recommends full investigation

House Republicans have unveiled their long-promised report on former President Joe Biden’s use of the autopen, delivering a blistering critique of his time in office and inner circle that largely rehashes public information while making sweeping accusations about the workings of his White House. The GOP report does not include any concrete evidence that aides conspired to enact policies without Biden’s knowledge or that the president was unaware of laws, pardons or executive orders signed in his name.