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Helicopter carrying tourists spins out of control and crashes into building

Helicopter carrying tourists spins out of control and crashes into building

Onlookers could only watch in horror as the helicopter smashed into a building and became stuck between the wall and the antenna on Monday evening. All six people inside the chopper survived but had to be rescued from a restaurant rooftop in the Colombian city of Medellin. American tourist Francisco Salas, 36, is heard on the phone to the emergency services speaking in both Spanish and English. ‘I’ve been in a helicopter crash. We are very high up and waiting for the police and rescue team,’ he says in the footage. For 45 minutes, Salas had one arm around a woman ‘with a lot of body weight who did not have the strength to support herself’ and his other arm against the helicopter. The Texan businessman also said he used his phone to call his mum and dad to ‘say goodbye, say t...
Is a Gaza ceasefire deal in sight?

Is a Gaza ceasefire deal in sight?

At the Nova festival site in southern Israel, attacked by Hamas gunmen on 7 October, the families and friends of Israeli hostages began a long march to Jerusalem on Wednesday. The festival site, near Kibbutz Re'im, is where hundreds of Israelis were killed and hundreds more dragged away into Gaza. The marchers, carrying pictures of those still missing, are demanding that their government do more to bring the remaining 134 hostages home. Their hopes have been raised by talk of a ceasefire. "One hundred and forty-five endless days and nights of yearning for our loved ones," Ronen Neutra said, addressing the crowd. Ronen's 22-year-old son, Omer, is somewhere in Gaza. "We send them strength, and ask them to hold a little...
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