Electricity shortages were slowing attempts to clear a flooded mine shaft on Monday, and community members began to lose hope for 57 miners trapped for a fourth day in China’s worst mining accident this year. ”We must go all out to rescue these men. But we also need to start preparing for the worst,” said the mayor of the nearby city Datong.
A knot of police officers rush into a burning office building to evacuate survivors. They hear a hellish rumble above and dash for haven in an elevator vestibule as the structure collapses around them. So begins Oliver Stone’s World Trade Center, the first 25 minutes of which was previewed at the Cannes Film Festival.
A mechanism to force security-sector groups into negotiating is needed to resolve the current labour dispute, Minister of Labour Membathisi Mdladlana said on Monday. ”People are constantly calling on the minister to intervene in criminal activities. What do they mean when they say intervene?” Mdladlana said in Pretoria.
One Jordanian was killed and at least seven Palestinians wounded as rising tensions between the rival Hamas and Fatah factions erupted into heavy fighting near Parliament in Gaza on Monday. A driver at the Jordanian representation was killed in the running gun battle close to the Legislative Council building.
Biodiversity policies must be integrated into economic decision-making for South Africa’s flora and wildlife to be conserved, says Minister of Environmental Affairs and Tourism Marthinus van Schalkwyk. He was speaking at the launch of the National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan in Port Elizabeth on Monday..
Winter will not be exceptionally cold, it will just be normal, Weather South Africa said on Monday. ”According to our models the temperatures will be normal for this time of year,” meteorologist Selebaleng Gaebee said. Last winter was exceptionally warm, which may explain why people feel the current cold weather more intensely.
Nepal’s interim government announced the long-awaited final names for an 18-member Cabinet on Monday but was immediately rocked when one minister refused to take her post. The top seven jobs were appointed 20 days ago, with 11 more names announced on Monday, including the education, tourism and water-resources portfolios, state-run media said.
Cell C has denied it was to blame for the problems experienced by the Vodacom network on Friday. ”Problems experienced were on Vodacom’s network and our understanding is that these were rectified by Vodacom’s engineers fixing their own network problems,” said Cell C head of communications Vanashree Pillay on Monday.
A searing indictment of former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi wrapped into a tender story of one man’s bid to overcome failure won a rapturous welcome from Cannes critics on Monday. Director Nanni Moretti’s film was released in March, just before the elections in which the conservative Berlusconi was narrowly ousted after five years in office.
The retail sector in Europe outstrips other sectors with regard to the highest rate of paper wastage. A quarter of all pages in the workplace are printed for nothing, according to research conducted by Ipsos, on behalf of Lexmark. The survey, conducted between February and March this year, interviewed 2Â 837 office workers across Europe.