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69 miners trapped in
Chinese
coal mine are alive: rescuers |
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BEIJING: Sixty-nine workers trapped in a flooded Chi nese coal mine
for over two days are alive, but it is impossible to say whether
rescue efforts will succeed, authorities said Tuesday.
“The 69 miners are still alive.
We are in contact with them at the moment,” State Administration
of Work Safety spokeswoman An Yuanjie told AFP.
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O T H E R R E P O R T S
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Khmer Rouge prison
chief handed over to UN-backed court
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PHNOM PENH: A former Khmer Rouge
prison chief was Tuesday handed over to Cambodia’s UN-backed
tribunal in the most concrete move so far to try those responsible
for the country’s genocide.
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US House wants
Japan’s sex slavery apology
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WASHINGTON: The US House of
Representatives Monday rebuked US ally Japan and called for an
apology for the sexual slavery inflicted by its wartime military on
200,000 Asian ‘comfort women.’
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Taliban set new
deadline for hostages
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GHAZNI, Afghanistan:
Afghanistan’s Taliban set the government a new deadline of noon
(0730 GMT) Wednesday to meet its demands in order to save 21 South
Koreans a day after a second hostage was killed.
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Explosion rocks
Baghdad city center
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BAGHDAD: A bomb shattered the
post football calm in Baghdad on Monday, killing at least four
people and wounding several more the day after the country was
briefly united in joy at its Asian Cup win.
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5 kangaroo heads
found on a beach in Australia
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SYDNEY: Australia’s leading
animal welfare group launched an investigation Tuesday after five
severed kangaroo heads were found on a beach in Queensland state.
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INBRIEF
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GHAZNI, Afghanistan:
Police found the body of a South Korean in southern Afghanistan
overnight, hours after the Taliban said it had killed him, a
provincial police chief told AFP Tuesday.
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