Tag: Missing

British journalist, indigenous expert missing in Brazil

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AFP) — A British journalist and a Brazilian indigenous expert have gone missing in a remote region of the Amazon rainforest after receiving threats, authorities and indigenous-rights groups said Monday, raising fears for their safety. Veteran foreign correspondent Dom Phillips, 57, went missing while researching a book in the Brazilian Amazon’s Javari Valley with respected indigenous expert Bruno Pereira, said The Guardian newspaper, where Phillips has been a longtime contributor. The […]

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More than 100,000 people officially missing in Mexico

  by Yussel Gonzalez © Agence France-Presse Mexico City, MEXICO (AFP) — More than 100,000 people are now listed as missing in violence-wracked Mexico, a grim milestone that the United Nations rights chief on Tuesday called “a tragedy of enormous proportions.” Rights groups appealed for urgent action to tackle disappearances that have skyrocketed during years of spiraling drug-related violence. The National Registry of Missing Persons, which has been tracking disappearances since 1964, said that as […]

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Dozens of people missing after boat capsizes off Florida: US Coast Guard

MIAMI, United States (AFP) — The US Coast Guard launched a search for 39 people reported missing when a boat capsized off the coast of Florida in a “suspected human smuggling venture,” it said Tuesday. The Coast Guard in Miami said it had received a report “from a good Samaritan” who rescued a man “clinging to a capsized vessel approximately 45 miles east of Fort Pierce Inlet.” The survivor said the boat had left Bimini […]

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Australia sets $1 million reward for missing four-year-old

SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) — Australian authorities on Thursday offered Aus$1 million (US$750,000) for information leading to the discovery of a missing four-year-old girl feared abducted from a remote campsite last weekend. Cleo Smith disappeared from her family’s tent in Western Australia during the early hours of Saturday, sparking an extensive air, sea and ground search. But after six days of fruitlessly combing in the area surrounding the Blowholes campsite — a coastal tourist spot about […]

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Body found matching description of US missing woman Petito: FBI

US law enforcement said Sunday a body found in a US national forest in Wyoming, where a search was underway for Gabrielle “Gabby” Petito, matches the description of the missing woman, whose disappearance has gripped the country. American authorities launched a massive search for 22-year-old Petito when her family filed a missing person report on September 11, after she mysteriously vanished during a road trip with her boyfriend. After a body was found in the […]

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Three-year-old survives three-day Australia outback ordeal

SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) — An Australian mother said Tuesday she felt “blessed” after her three-year-old son with autism was found alive, scooping muddy water from a creek in dense outback terrain after a three-day hunt that gripped the country. Police sent a helicopter with thermal imaging equipment but failed to spot the little boy in the hours after he was first reported missing on Friday morning at his family’s remote property in the eastern state […]

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DFA asks Indonesia for help in locating missing Filipina tourist

(Eagle News) — The Department of Foreign Affairs has asked the assistance of Indonesian authorities after the family of a Filipina who had only gone on vacation in Bali was reported missing by her family. In a statement, the DFA said the embassy in Indonesia filed a missing persons report for Ella Balmaceda Paaño, a resort worker at Coron. Earlier, Paaño’s sisters traveled to Manila from Camarines Sur  to ask the DFA to help them locate […]

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Kidnapped American teen found alive months after parents’ murder

GORDON, United States (AFP) — A 21-year-old man has been charged with murdering the parents of an American teen as part of a calculated plot to kidnap her, police said Friday, after 13-year-old Jayme Closs was found alive following three months in captivity. The subject of a nationwide search since her parents were found murdered in their home in rural Wisconsin in October, Closs made a seemingly miraculous escape Thursday afternoon, seeking help from a […]

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At least 25 dead due to Typhoon “Ompong”

(Eagle News)–At least 25 people have been reported dead following the onslaught of Typhoon “Ompong” in the country. Presidential Political Adviser Francis Tolentino said in a radio interview on Sunday, Sept. 16, that  of the fatalities, 20 were from the Cordillera Administrative Region, four from Nueva Vizcaya, and one from the Ilocos Region. The Philippine National Police lists 20 people who were injured from the CAR. Of the 20 injured, two were from Baguio, seven […]

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US Navy searching for overboard marine off Philippines

  MANILA, Philippines (AFP) — The US military said it had launched a search and rescue operation after reports a marine may have fallen overboard from an American warship as it sailed through Philippine waters. The US 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit said a member, who was not named, may have gone overboard Thursday morning. Aircraft on board the USS Essex are searching waters off the Sulu Sea and the Surigao Strait while multiple searches are […]

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Plane with 10 aboard goes missing in Kenya

NAIROBI, Kenya (AFP) — Rescue teams on Wednesday were looking for a small plane with 10 people on board that went missing north of the Kenyan capital Nairobi, the aircraft owners and the national disaster agency said. The plane, operated by East African Safari Air Express, took off from the western town of Kitale in the late afternoon Tuesday. It disappeared off the radar screens at Nairobi international airport, its final destination, around 80 minutes […]

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Mexico court orders new probe into massacre of students

by Jean Luis Arce  © Agence France-Presse MEXICO CITY, Mexico (AFP) — A court in Mexico has ordered a new probe into a crime that horrified the nation: the disappearance and suspected massacre of 43 students in 2014. Relatives of the missing welcomed the ruling, but the government questioned it and said it was reviewing the decision, which came from a federal court in the state of Tamaulipas. Mexico remains haunted by the unsolved mystery of […]

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