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Backlash after Boris Johnson says Thatcher helped climate by closing UK coal mines
Johnson made the comments towards the end of a two-day trip to Scotland.
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Johnson made the comments towards the end of a two-day trip to Scotland.
The debris standing in the way weighs about 70 tons.
The miners were stuck in the Beatrix gold mine after a massive power outage caused by a storm.
They were among 29 trapped in the Chinese mine.
The mine collapse was the worst such disaster in recent memory.
The miners were trapped for nearly two days at an unlicensed gold mine.
Turkey’s four worker unions have called for a nationwide, one-day strike today.
The 19 Polish miners trapped when an earthquake hit have been rescued.
A total of 259 miners were working underground when the explosion went off at the Vorkutinskaya mine.
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Major gold producers in South Africa are playing a high-stakes game of chicken with workers striking over wages.
A court is to begin conditionally releasing 270 miners who were arrested after police gunned down 34 of their colleagues in Johannesburg in August.
Prosecutors have charged 270 mine workers over violent confrontation with police sparked by mining strike.
A widow of one of the men collapsed during the service, which remembered the 34 miners who died during last week’s strike.
Mining company threatened to fire anyone who doesn’t show up for work tomorrow morning after wildcat strike led to 44 deaths.
Police chief says live rounds were used after negotiations and crowd control measures failed.
Video footage of the shooting has been broadcast across South Africa.
A number of people were shot and injured in the incident, which occured as striking workers gathered near the Lonmin PLC platinum mine this afternoon.
Six people were hospitalised and several arrested in yesterday after police fired rubber bullets at crowds demonstrating against severe new austerity measures.
A gas leaks sparks an underground explosion at a mine in the Yunnan province, with around two dozen more miners trapped.
The remaining 45 miners trapped underground since last Thursday have been brought to the surface. Eight people have been confirmed dead following the incident.
Seven miners have so far managed to escape from the mine in the centre of the country.
It’s the second fatal mining accident to hit the UK’s mining industry this month.
The mine the men were working in was ordered shut in 2007 but reopened – without permission – earlier this month.
A giant diamond-tipped drill is now just 40m away from the trapped men – but there’s new safety concerns.