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An official from Turkey’s disaster management agency says that rescue teams have begun the arduous process of extricating an American researcher who became seriously ill while he was 3,000 feet below the entrance of a cave in Turkey TASELI PLATEAU, Turkey -- Rescue teams began the arduous process Saturday of extricating an American researcher who became seriously ill while he was 1,000 meters (3,000 feet) below the entrance of a cave in Turkey, officials said. It could take days to bring Mark Dickey to the surface since rescuers anticipate he will have to stop and rest frequently at camps set up along the way as they pull his stretcher through the narrow passages. “This afternoon, the operation to move him from his camp at 1040 meters to the camp at 700 meters began,” Turkey's Disaster and Emergency Management Directorate, AFAD, told The Associated Press. The 40-year-old experienced caver began vomiting on Sept. 2 because of stomach bleeding while on an expedition with a handful of...

Railway officials say the death toll from a train derailment in southern Pakistan has risen to at least 30, with more than 60 others injured MULTAN, Pakistan -- A train derailed in southern Pakistan on Sunday, killing at least 30 people and injuring at least 60 others, officials said. Rescue operations were underway. Ten cars of a Rawalpindi-bound train derailed and some overturned, near the Pakistani town of Nawabshah, trapping many passengers, said senior railway officer Mahmoodur Rehman Lakho. Local television showed rescue teams extracting women, children and elderly passengers from damaged and overturned cars. Some of the injured were lying on the ground crying for help while locals gave out water and food. AP photos showed derailed train cars sprawled across or near the tracks. Senior police officer Abid Baloch said from the scene of the accident that 30 bodies had been recovered while more than 60 people were injured , some critically. He added that the death toll may rise as r...

Police in Paris searched the Paris 2024 Olympics headquarters on Tuesday. LONDON and PARIS -- Police were search ing offices associated with organizers of the Paris 2024 Olympics on Tuesday as part of two financial investigations, French officials said. "A police search is currently underway at the headquarters of the Organising Committee," the Paris 2024 committee, COJOP, said in a statement. "Paris 2024 is cooperating fully with the investigators to facilitate their investigations." A search was also underway Tuesday at the offices the Société de Livraison des Ouvrages Olympiques, also known a SOLIDEO, a spokesperson for France’s National Financial Prosecutor’s Office told ABC News. A security member stands at the entrance of the headquarters of the Paris 2024 Olympics headquarters as Police raided the office, in Saint-Denis, northern Paris, on June 20, 2023. Julien De Rosa/AFP via Getty Images MORE: As 2024 Paris Olympics ticketing begins, some buyers raise ...

The chief of Ukraine’s National Police says a helicopter crash in a Kyiv suburb has killed 18 people, including Ukraine’s interior minister and three children KYIV, Ukraine -- A helicopter crash in a Kyiv suburb Wednesday killed 18 people, including Ukraine’s interior minister and three children, Ukrainian authorities said. There was no immediate word on whether the crash was an accident or a result of the war with Russia. No fighting has been reported recently in the Kyiv area. Interior Minister Denys Monastyrskyi, his deputy Yevhen Yenin and State Secretary of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Yurii Lubkovych were among those killed, according to Ihor Klymenko, chief of Ukraine’s National Police. Monastyrskyi, who was in charge of the Ukrainian police and other emergency services, is the most senior Ukrainian official to have died since the start of the war with Russia almost 11 months ago. Nine of those killed were aboard the emergency services helicopter that crash ed in Brovary, ...