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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.

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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.

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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.

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Melissa hits Cuba hours after devastating Jamaica

Hurricane Melissa has made landfall in eastern Cuba near the city of Chivirico as a Category 3 storm after pummelling Jamaica as one of the strongest Atlantic hurricanes on record, the US National Hurricane Center says. Hundreds of thousands of people had been evacuated to shelters in Cuba. A hurricane warning was in effect for the Cuban provinces of Granma, Santiago de Cuba, Guantánamo, Holguin and Las Tunas, as well as the southeastern and central Bahamas.

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‘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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Race to rescue family after building collapses

WWI soldiers’ messages in a bottle found 100 years later

The man who skied Everest’s most dangerous route

Melissa hits Cuba hours after devastating Jamaica

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