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Added on the 09/12/2020 13:00:00 - Copyright : EFE Inglés
Emergency workers and police officers secure the area around the site where three French flood rescuers were killed in a helicopter crash. The EC145 civil security helicopter was on a rescue mission in southern France where floods have left two dead. IMAGES
French rescuers have retrieved the cockpit voice recorder of crashed Germanwings flight U49525, which is hoped will yield more information about the circumstances of the crash in the French Alps.
French Defence Minister Sébastien Lecornu is on board the Dixmude, a French helicopter carrier anchored in the Egyptian port of Al-Arich, where wounded civilians from Gaza are being treated. The minister is spending New Year's Eve aboard the French ship, anchored some 50 kilometers from the Rafah crossing point between Egypt and the Gaza Strip, where aid is trickling in. IMAGES
Images of the area near Chalabre, in southern France, where a UK teenager was found on Wednesday after disappearing in Spain six years ago when he was 11. Alex Batty, originally from the northern English city of Oldham, was picked up by a driver in a mountainous area. IMAGES
Aerial images of roads alongside the Chikugo river completely submerged after heavy rain in southwestern Japan. One person has been confirmed dead and hundreds of thousands of people have been urged to evacuate their homes as forecasters warned of the "heaviest rain ever" in the region. IMAGES