Aggressive, as opposed to defensive, warfare is a violation of international law. It is this that was used to condemn the apartheid South African Defence Force’s incursions into Angola
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/ 20 November 2007
Rescue teams battled smoke and high temperatures on Monday as they pressed on with the task of tracking down 20 missing miners in a Ukrainian coal mine after a methane explosion killed at least 80 others. Distraught family members demanded information about victims more than 24 hours after the explosion.
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/ 19 November 2007
Rescue teams battled a tenacious fire in a Ukrainian colliery on Monday as they strove to locate 30 miners missing underground after a methane blast killed at least 70 miners. The explosion at the Zasyadko mine in Donetsk, heart of Ukraine’s Donbass coalfield, is likely to become the country’s deadliest accident since independence from Soviet rule in 1991.
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/ 18 November 2007
Seventeen miners were killed and 14 are missing after a methane explosion ripped through a mine in Ukraine’s Donbass coalfield on Sunday, the latest of a string of accidents in the region’s outdated mines. Ukraine’s Emergencies Ministry said 31 miners had been in the immediate vicinity of the 3am blast at the Zasyadko mine in the coalfield’s main town, Donetsk.