Flash flooding interrupts half-marathon, submerges cars
Parts of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut were hit by flash flooding, leading to water rescues, stranded motorists and half-marathon runners battling the floodwaters.
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Parts of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut were hit by flash flooding, leading to water rescues, stranded motorists and half-marathon runners battling the floodwaters.
Shizuoka, Sept. 14 (Jiji Press)--Yamanashi Prefecture, west of Tokyo, said Monday that it will charge off-season Mount Fuji climbers for rescues using its helicopters, aiming to implement this measure in September 2027. The measure has been requested by mayors of local municipalities and others, following a series of cases in which off-season climbers were stranded on the mountain, which is...
Rescuers continue searching for survivors as the government scales back operations in open waters.
Indonesian rescuers launched a search operation on Sunday after a passenger ship carrying 240 people lost contact in the Java Sea while travelling from East Java to South Kalimantan on Borneo Island, officials said. The Search and Rescue Office in Banjarmasin, the capital of South Kalimantan province, said they received a report the Virgo Transport 8 had experienced a communication failure while en route to the city from Surabaya, Indonesiaโs second largest city in East Java province. Initial...
A 15-year-old boy was miraculously rescued after spending two days clinging to his capsized boat in Alaskaโs Bering Sea.
Um prรฉdio em construรงรฃo desabou em cima de uma casa na madrugada deste sรกbado (12) na Rua Tequici, bairro da Penha, na capital paulista. Atรฉ o momento, o Corpo de Bombeiros confirmou duas pessoas mortas na ocorrรชncia. Outras duas vรญtimas foram resgatadas e encaminhadas para um pronto-socorro no Tatuapรฉ, sendo um adulto e uma crianรงa. As equipes continuam buscando vรญtimas entre os escombros.ย A corporaรงรฃo informou que, por volta das 10h, 59 bombeiros e 21 viaturas estavam no local em atendimento ร ocorrรชncia.
Bobbing for days atop a capsized skiff in Alaskaโs frigid Bering Sea, a 15-year-old boy held on until he was rescued by a fishing vessel this week, the US coastguard said. The boyโs brother and a cousin died sometime after the small boat flipped, according to the rescuers. Their bodies were found after the teen was hoisted to safety near St Lawrence Island โ a remote Alaskan island that is closer to Russia than it is to the United States. The captain of the fishing boat, The Northwest Explorer,...
The one-day-old male infant was shifted to RIMS Hospital for immediate medical care
SWR RPF personnel rescued 33 children, including six girls, and seized contraband valued at about โน12.5 crore during August 2026
Six orangutans including two nursing infants have been rescued from fires raging on Borneo island in the past week, Indonesian authorities and rescuers said on Thursday, bringing the total to 15 in a month. The apes were saved from plantations in deep rural West Kalimantan province, on the Indonesian part of the island, where they got stuck after fires cut off access to their forest home, according to the forestry ministry and the YIARI wildlife rehabilitation foundation. A large fire was...
Operaรงรฃo resgate VI trabalhadores estrangeiros - MPF/Divulgaรงรฃo De 1ยฐ a 31 de agosto, as autoridades retiraram 479 pessoas de diversas nacionalidades de situaรงรตes que configuravam trabalho anรกlogo ร escravidรฃo. De acordo com o Ministรฉrio Pรบblico Federal (MPF), 75 vรญtimas eram mulheres, 9 atuavam em ambiente domรฉstico (1,9%) e 13 dos resgatados eram crianรงas ou adolescentes. Outra caracterรญstica de destaque รฉ a origem das pessoas exploradas. Alรฉm de brasileiras e brasileiros, foram localizadas 66 migrantes vรญtimas provenientes da Argentina, Uruguai, Paraguai, Bolรญvia, Venezuela, Burkina Faso, Senegal e Guinรฉ-Bissau. Notรญcias relacionadas:Em 13 anos, MG tirou 5,6 mil pessoas de trabalho anรกlogo ร escravidรฃo.Operaรงรฃo resgata 29 trabalhadores em condiรงรตes anรกlogas ร escravidรฃo .De acordo com os dados da Operaรงรฃo Resgate VI, divulgados nesta quarta-feira (9), o Sudeste concentrou 55,7% das vรญtimas (267 pessoas resgatadas), das quais a maioria (208) no estado de Minas Gerais. A maior parte dos resgates (292 vรญtimas) ocorreu na zona rural, 57,5% das fiscalizaรงรตes. O segmento econรดmico com maior nรบmero de casos foi o cultivo de cafรฉ, com 53 vรญtimas, seguido por plantaรงรตes de cebola (47), de batata-inglesa (44) e outras culturas de lavoura temporรกria (43). Da regiรฃo urbana foram resgatadas 178 das vรญtimas (37,2%). A construรงรฃo civil respondeu por quase metade desses casos (85 pessoas, ou 47,7% das vรญtimas). Iniciada em 2021, a forรงa-tarefa da Operaรงรฃo Resgate combina esforรงos do MPF com o Ministรฉrio Pรบblico do Trabalho (MPT), a Polรญcia Federal (PF), a Defensoria Pรบblica da Uniรฃo (DPU) e o Ministรฉrio do Trabalho e Emprego (MTE). Ao longo de cinco anos, os esforรงos de fiscalizaรงรฃo resultaram no resgate de 1.192 trabalhadores sem carteira assinada, ou seja, trabalhando informalmente e sem os direitos bรกsicos garantidos, como fรฉrias e dรฉcimo terceiro.ย Notificaรงรตes Durante as fiscalizaรงรตes realizadas no mรชs passado, os empregadores flagrados submetendo trabalhadores a essas condiรงรตes foram notificados e instados a interromper as atividades e a rescindir os contratos de trabalho, formalizando-os retroativamente. O total em verbas trabalhistas e rescisรณrias chega R$ 1,4 milhรฃo. Alรฉm do trabalho anรกlogo ร escravidรฃo, os empregadores implicados deverรฃo responder por outras irregularidades, como trabalho infantil e por descumprir normas de saรบde e seguranรงa, colocando as vรญtimas em risco. Segundo o MPF, na fase VI da Operaรงรฃo Resgate foram emitidos 1.836 autos de infraรงรฃo relacionados a esses contextos, assim como ordens de interdiรงรฃo e embargo de atividades com grave e possรญvel risco para a integridade fรญsica e saรบde dos trabalhadores. "No รขmbito da persecuรงรฃo penal e da atuaรงรฃo extrajudicial, o MPF acompanha atualmente 95 procedimentos extrajudiciais e 491 inquรฉritos relacionados ร submissรฃo ou ร reconduรงรฃo de pessoas a condiรงรตes anรกlogas ร escravidรฃo. Na esfera judicial, em primeira instรขncia, tramitam 759 aรงรตes penais. Outras 289 aรงรตes penais, apelaรงรตes e recursos criminais em segunda instรขncia, concentrados nas Procuradorias Regionais da Repรบblica da 1ยช, 3ยช e 6ยช Regiรตes", detalhou o MPF. Nova lei para trabalhadores domรฉsticos No inรญcio de julho, foi sancionada a Lei nยบ 15.455/2026, que amplia a proteรงรฃo ร s vรญtimas de trabalho anรกlogo ร escravidรฃo no ambiente domรฉstico, permitindo que auditores fiscais entrem em residรชncias para apurar suspeitas de irregularidades sem que precisem de um mandado judicial.ย A lei tambรฉm prioriza as vรญtimas na fila do programa Bolsa Famรญlia e determina a aplicaรงรฃo da Lei Maria da Penha quando a vรญtima for mulher. A combinaรงรฃo com a Lei Maria da Penha deverรก facilitar a obtenรงรฃo de medidas protetivas de urgรชncia e, com isso, evitar que patrรตes violentem ainda mais as vรญtimas resgatadas. Magistrados poderรฃo, por exemplo, determinar o afastamento dos empregadores da residรชncia e proibi-los de entrar em contato com a vรญtima e seus familiares.ย Estatรญsticas mostram que a maioria das pessoas que tรชm como ocupaรงรฃo o serviรงo domรฉstico remunerado, que assume variadas formas, como as atividades desempenhadas por diaristas, babรกs, jardineiros e cuidadores, รฉ do gรชnero feminino e negra. Em 2018, levantamento do Instituto de Pesquisa Econรดmica Aplicada (Ipea) apurou um total de 6,2 milhรตes de pessoas exercendo serviรงos domรฉsticos remunerados, dos quais 92% (5,7 milhรตes) mulheres e 3,9 milhรตes mulheres negras (62,9% do total de trabalhadores do setor), parcela mais vulnerรกvel da pirรขmide socioeconรดmica do paรญs e tambรฉm em termos de violรชncia de gรชnero. Denรบncias de trabalho escravo podem ser feitas de forma remota e sigilosa no Sistema Ipรช, sistema da Secretaria de Inspeรงรฃo do Trabalho (SIT) em parceria com a Organizaรงรฃo Internacional do Trabalho (OIT).
At least five people died and 87 remained unaccounted for Thursday after a ferry caught fire off the Philippine island province of Palawan, with 42 passengers and crew rescued. Coast guard teams continued search and rescue operations as officials warned the figures could change while they worked to establish what happened.
Two Belgian nationals were rescued by Turkish authorities after their private aircraft suffered engine failure.
The raid was conducted at Primecare Vet Hospital after an animal rescue group and a whistleblower brought alleged video evidence of cruelty to the authoritiesโ attention.
Authorities in India rescue baby orangutans dumped in forest
Forest officials suspect the apes, not native to India, may have been abandoned after a botched attempt to transport them; investigation underway
Authorities in Nepal on Tuesday said that rescuers are focusing on three hydropower project tunnelsย where they believe dozens of workers could be trapped. The announcement cameย two weeks after โa devastating โflood killed that hundreds and left thousands missing in the Himalayan country and in โ neighbouring China's Tibet region.
The adult male bear is under observation at the Indira Gandhi Zoological Park for two days before release into the wild, wildlife expert D. Mahesh Babu says
At least five people have been killed and nine rescued after a building housing mostly students collapsed in New Delhi.
The two youths reportedly entered the feeder canal to wash their legs and suddenly slipped into the deep waters on Saturday; rescue operations will resume on Monday morning, says SP
Krishna Bhardwaj, who was among the first to reach the site, said he pulled several students from the debris before rescuers arrived; one boy who pleaded with him to save him was later found to have died
Eight fire tenders and multiple rescue teams of various departments were rushed to the spot, a Delhi Fire Service official said
Chandika Shrestha was airlifted to hospital after spending more than 10 days in her partially buried house.
Rescuers in Nepal pulled alive on Saturday a Chinese national from a tunnel and a local woman from her partially submerged home, as emergency response teams searched with renewed vigour for thousands missing since catastrophic flooding 10 days ago. Our correspondent Shahzaib Wahlah tells us more.