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Thai Cave Mission: All 12 Boys And Their Coach Are Rescued

8:30am July 10, 2018

by Michael Sullivan

Divers brought out the final four boys and their soccer coach from a cave near the Thai-Myanmar border, extracting the team through a labyrinth of tight passages after they spent two weeks trapped.

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Workers secure a rope to the shore at the Patoutzu Fishing Harbour in Keelung on Tuesday, as boats come into dock ahead of the arrival of Typhoon Maria.

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Taiwan Prepares For High Winds, Heavy Rain From Super Typhoon Maria

4:54am July 10, 2018

by Scott Neuman

The storm is the equivalent of a Category 4 hurricane and is packing winds in excess of 110 mph. It is expected to make a close pass of northern Taiwan and of Japan's southern Ryukyu islands.

Mumbai's Juhu beach is strewn with trash at low tide during monsoon season. Floodwaters flush garbage out of the city and into the Arabian Sea. As tides ebb, beaches are blanketed in trash, much of it plastic.

An Indian State Bans Plastic Bags, Straws And More. Will It Work?

3:35pm July 09, 2018

by Lauren Frayer

In Mumbai, beaches are strewn with plastic trash, so now there's a ban on plastics — and penalties for violators. But there are some exceptions.

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Wa Lone, 32, speaks to reporters as police escort him from the courthouse following his pretrial hearing Monday in Yongon. He is one of two Reuters reporters charged with breaking the country's secrecy law, which carries the possibility of 14 years in pri

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Reuters Reporters To Face Trial In Myanmar After Covering Rohingya Massacre

1:28pm July 09, 2018

by Colin Dwyer

Despite international outrage, a Myanmar court has ruled that a case can proceed against Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, who were arrested while reporting on the killings of 10 Rohingya men last fall.

Police and military personnel use umbrellas to cover a stretcher as it is carried to a helicopter from an ambulance at a military airport in Chiang Rai, Thailand, on Monday, as rescue operations continued for those still trapped inside the cave in Khun Na

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2nd Group Of 4 Boys Is Rescued From Thai Cave After Long Ordeal

1:20pm July 09, 2018

by Bill Chappell

With eight boys now saved, workers will attempt to get the remaining five people – four boys and their 25-year-old coach – out of the cave system on Tuesday.

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The Psychology Of Being Trapped Underground

12:37pm July 09, 2018

As the rescue operation of young boys from a cave continues in Thailand, we look at the physical and psychological impact of being trapped underground.

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First Group Of Trapped Boys Rescued From Cave In Thailand

11:08am July 09, 2018

by Michael Sullivan

On Sunday, four of the trapped soccer players had been freed from a flooded cave. A second round of rescues has begun. The operation is complicated and is an hours-long process.

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Morning News Brief

7:30am July 09, 2018

President Trump is set to announce his latest Supreme Court nominee. A rescue drama in a flooded Thai cave complex continues. And NPR begins a new series on the effects of heat, as the climate warms.

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U.S. Soybeans Are A Prime Target For Chinese Tariffs

5:06am July 09, 2018

David Greene talks to soybean farmer Michael Petefish, head of the Minnesota Soybean Growers Association, about how farmers are preparing to take the hit from Chinese tariffs.

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Onlookers watch and cheer as ambulances deliver boys rescued from a cave in northern Thailand to a hospital in Chiang Rai on Sunday.

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First Boys Are Rescued From Cave In Thailand

2:37pm July 08, 2018

by James Doubek

The Thai Navy SEALS say four of the 13 people who had been trapped for more than two weeks have been rescued. Rescue efforts began Sunday morning.