"They were in a storage unit. They got stolen and sold for parts. They were never seen again. They don't exist." ...

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Harry Chandler, a Navy medic who helped pull injured sailors from the oily waters of Pearl Harbor after the 1941 Japanese attack on the naval base, has died. He was 103. Chandler ...

“And by raising the barrier in winter to stop high waters, the island is protected from the surges that used to erode it,” he added. The engineer added that the island’s new vegetation due ...

A new island has emerged in Venice - thanks to recently installed city flood barriers. Bacan is a small stretch of land near the Sant'Erasmo island on the Northern Venetian Lagoon. It can only be ...

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France mobilized emergency aid on Monday, deploying ships and military aircraft to assist Mayotte, its overseas territory in the Indian Ocean, after the island was devastated by its most severe ...

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A cat's head, believed to have been severed, was found on the grounds of an elementary school in Fujieda, Shizuoka Prefecture, on Saturday. Cat heads and torsos have been found one after another this ...

CAT ISLAND| Crowds flocked the New Bight Cat Island Park on Friday as the official Christmas party was underway for the community of Cat Islanders hosted by Urban Renewal and the RBPF. Kids from ...

US MV-22 Osprey transport aircraft are parked at the US Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in Okinawa prefecture. File image/AP The United States has started relocating thousands of Marines stationed on ...

(AP Photo/Hiro Komae, File) Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year] TOKYO (AP) — The partial transfer of U.S. Marines from Okinawa to Guam began on Saturday, 12 years ...