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Mikko Paasi

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  • May 30

    Laos Cave Rescue: Four More Miners Freed After 10 Days Trapped Underground, Two Still Missing

    International dive teams extracted four more miners from a flooded cave in central Laos on Saturday, bringing the total rescued to five, while the search continues for two men still missing deep inside the treacherous, water-filled tunnels.

  • May 30

    Laos cave rescue: Four trapped gold miners walk out on their own after 10 days underground

    Four men trapped for 10 days in a flooded cave in central Laos stunned rescuers by emerging on their own Saturday, a day after the first survivor was pulled out. Two others remain missing deep inside the tunnel system.

  • May 28

    Race to Rescue Five Gold Miners Found Alive in Flooded Laos Cave as Two Still Missing

    Rescuers have located five villagers alive in a flooded cave in Laos more than a week after they were trapped, but the operation to extract them is hampered by dangerously narrow passages and a critical shortage of oxygen.

  • May 27

    Five Gold Miners Found Alive After Week Trapped in Flooded Laos Cave; Search for Two Others Continues

    Rescuers located five emaciated but smiling men huddled on a rock deep inside a flooded Laos cave on Wednesday, a week after they were trapped by a landslide while searching for gold. Two others remain missing as a multinational team battles rising water and collapsed passages.

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Hormuz closes, Fontainebleau burns

Strikes halt Hormuz traffic as Europe fights fires and capitals punish Russian cyber sabotage

The day’s hard news ran through chokepoints, forests and crowded rooms. A US-Iran exchange froze visible traffic in the Strait of Hormuz, Europe counted fires and heat alerts, and a Bangkok pub disaster exposed a familiar gap between inspection and escape.

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