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Getty ImagesRescued miners have been taken for medical checksIt will be a “mammoth task” to identify the bodies brought up from a disused mineshaft in South Africa this week, a police spokesperson says.Seventy-eight corpses, along with more than 240 illegal miners, have been hoisted to the surface since Monday as part of a rescue operation, Brig Athlenda Mathe told journalists close to the top of the mineshaft in Stilfontein.They had been underground since at least November.That was when the authorities stepped up efforts to bring an end to illicit mining activities by surrounding the entrance to the shaft and refusing…
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Firefighters from the Navajo Nation worked tirelessly through a haze of dust to cut away dirt from a narrow road at the side of a mountain struck by a landslide in Southern California, coughing and sneezing amid the backbreaking work. Anthony Platero, a member of the Navajo Scouts firefighter crew, wipes dust from his eyes as he clears debris from a landslide across a road on a hillside at the Eaton Fire, Friday, Jan. 17, 2025, in Altadena, Calif. (AP Photo/John Locher) Anthony Platero, a member of the Navajo Scouts firefighter crew, wipes dust from his…
(Beirut) – Saudi Arabia is hosting a major United Nations conference on internet governance while dozens of people remain imprisoned for peaceful online speech, Human Rights Watch said today. Many are charged under the country’s abusive counterterrorism law, and the authorities conduct invasive surveillance of civil society members at home and abroad. The 19th annual meeting of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) will be held from December 15 to 19 in Riyadh, under the theme of “Building our Multistakeholder Digital Future.” The annual forum features multistakeholder policy dialogue on internet-related public policy issues. “Saudi authorities have engaged in a sustained assault on…
SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (AP) — The path to Lost Lake was steep and unpaved, lined with sharp rocks and holes.A group of scientists and students gingerly made their way, using canes or a helping hand to guide them. For those who couldn’t make the trek, a drone brought the lake — blue and narrow — into view.The field trip was designed to illustrate the challenges disabled researchers often face and how barriers can be overcome.“Just because you can’t do it like someone else doesn’t mean you can’t do it,” said Anita Marshall, a University of Florida geologist leading the outing.…
(Brussels) – The EU and its member states should safeguard the right to territorial asylum in Europe, Human Rights Watch and more than 94 other organizations said in a statement released today. The recent and increasing attempts by several European Union member states to outsource asylum processing and refugee protection to countries outside the EU – such as in the Italy-Albania agreement on migration – contravene their legal responsibilities toward people in need of protection.“All EU member states are obliged to ensure the right to asylum under the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights,” said Iskra Kirova, Europe and Central Asia advocacy director at…
PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — Sal Almanza has worked 24-hour shifts in grueling terrain, cutting fire lines and hauling away brush trying to keep ahead of fires that have devastated several Los Angeles neighborhoods. But when the fires are finally out, he won’t be going back to his family: He’ll be returning to the prison “fire camp” where he’s serving time for drunken driving that injured someone.“I wanted to do something positive while I was here,” the 42-year-old said. “Something that would contribute back to the community and just help me feel better about my situation and right the wrongs that…
Members of the citizen forum including doctors walk in a rally protesting a rape and murder of a resident doctor in a government hospital early August, in Kolkata, India, on Oct. 1, 2024. Bikas Das/AP hide caption toggle caption Bikas Das/AP NEW DELHI — An Indian court on Saturday found a police volunteer guilty for the rape and murder of a trainee doctor, a crime that sparked countrywide protests and hospital strikes last year amid renewed concerns over lack of safety for women. The killing of the 31-year-old physician while she was on duty at a hospital in the eastern…
The courting of young Japanese flamethrower Roki Sasaki was one of the few instances that all 30 Major League Baseball teams were on equal footing for prized talent. A time when some of the lower-spending teams had a chance to pick up a promising player and add a little parity to a sport that …Hahahahaha — just kidding.He’s signing with the Los Angeles Dodgers.The 23-year-old right-hander, who has a fastball that tops 100 mph, joins the defending World Series champions in a move that felt inevitable. The San Diego Padres and Toronto Blue Jays were the other finalists, but as…
Mudathir Ibrahim SuleimanDr Mustafa Ali Abdulrahman Ibo and his colleagues bravely perform surgery under increasing bombardment in the last remaining hospital in el-Fasher, a city that has been under siege for the last nine months in Sudan’s western Darfur region.Over the last month the hospital has recorded 28 deaths and more than 50 injuries among its staff and patients because of intense shelling. This is the highest number of casualties recorded in a month since the siege began.”Recent continuous attacks targeting Saudi Hospital have intensified dramatically, it has become part of our daily lives,” Dr Ibo, a Darfuri who has…
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Saturday was cold even for Minneapolis, but that didn’t stop thousands of people from tromping out onto a frozen lake to immerse themselves in art, make new friends — and try their best to stay warm.The annual Art Shanty Projects drew crowds onto Lake Harriet for the first of four weekends of interactive, often silly and occasionally downright strange art events. The art was presented in or near shanties, a repurposing of the shelters often seen on Minnesota lakes for hardy souls who ice fish in the frigid depths of winter.Minnesotans are passionate about water and view…