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Indigenous people from the Nukak community and Colombian soldiers arrive in the jungle to join the Special Forces soldiers already searching for the four Indigenous children missing in the jungle after a plane crash in the Amazon. IMAGES
Australian authorities are searching for a tiny radioactive capsule along a desert highway after it went missing while being transported from a mine in the country's remote west. The 8mm by 6mm silver capsule, which is used in mining operations, has been unaccounted for since mid-January, and contains the radioactive substance Caesium-137. It is believed to have fallen off a truck while being moved to a storage facility.
Police in Western Australia confirm that a four-year-old girl was found "alive and well" on Wednesday, sparking elation more than two weeks after she disappeared from her family's tent during a camping trip. Deputy Commissioner Col Blanch says the girl Cleo Smith was found alone inside a locked house in the coastal town of Carnarvon, not far from where she was believed to have been abducted 18 days ago.
Search teams find wreckage of the An-26 passenger plane with 28 people aboard that disappeared in Russia's Far Eastern Kamchatka peninsula, the country's aviation agency told AFP. IMAGES
A search and rescue team in Jakarta led by Indonesia's Navy is searching for a missing Indonesian budget airline plane that is suspected to have crashed into the sea, with 62 people on board, shortly after the Boeing passenger jet took off from Jakarta airport. IMAGES
U.S.-led air strikes hit 10 units of Islamic State fighters in Syria in recent days as well as militants with the al Qaeda-linked Khorasan Group. Jillian Kitchener reports.