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After 3 Months Lost at Sea, Five Survivors Are Rescued on Remote Island

A boat in Micronesia went missing in July. This weekend, five of its passengers landed, unclothed and emaciated, on an island in Kiribati — more than 3,000 miles away.

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A boat missing since July ran ashore Saturday on the Pacific island nation of Kiribati, more than 3,000 miles from its intended destination.

He’s the Top Snake Catcher, and Business Is Booming. There’s Just One Problem.

Bangkok’s firefighters do more snake catching than firefighting, and Pinyo Pukpinyo trains them. But he refuses to kill the snakes, and he’s running out of containers.

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Traffic Control Errors Caused Spain’s Deadly Train Crash, Official Says

The transport minister said a judge would investigate controllers’ actions, including authorizing a train to proceed at high speed though another was stalled in front of it.

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Removing a wrecked carriage at the scene of the crash near Urda, Spain, on Friday. At least 69 people were killed.

After Crash, Spain Asks if Its Train System Is Too Old and Prone to Human Error

After the country’s second major rail disaster in a year, Spaniards were confronting questions about the safety of their once-vaunted rail system.

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Emergency workers were still searching for survivors and victims at the site of the crash on Thursday.

Is There a ‘Safest Seat’ in a Train Crash? Experts Say It’s Not So Simple.

After a high-speed collision near Toledo, Spain, killed at least 69 people, rail safety experts said the rough consensus that it is best to sit in the middle of a train has its limits.

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Emergency workers at the scene of a crash involving two trains near Toledo, Spain, on Wednesday.

Spain Train Crash Kills at Least 68

The accident, the second in less than a year on the same busy rail line, was one of the deadliest in the country’s history.

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Emergency services work at the scene of a crash between two trains in Urda, Spain, on Wednesday.

Spain’s Transportation Minister Said Incorrect Instructions Led to Train Crash

An “inexplicable” decision by traffic control operators sent a train on its way toward another stopped miles in front of it, the minister said.

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Óscar Puente, Spain’s transportation minister, said he watched a reconstruction of the crash and listened to recordings of communications between the control center and the trains that crashed.

Spain’s Transportation Minister Said Incorrect Instructions Led to Train Crash

An “inexplicable” decision by traffic control operators sent a train on its way toward another stopped miles in front of it, the minister said.

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Óscar Puente, Spain’s transportation minister, said he watched a reconstruction of the crash and listened to recordings of communications between the control center and the trains that crashed.
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