A major Canadian mining prospect upstream from Southeast Alaska is drawing legal challenges from both sides of the border, as tribal groups fear the project could pollute their ancestral waterways.

But that funding has come to a grinding halt. On Saturday, the State Department said it was suspending its global mine-clearing programs for at least three months. It followed a Trump ...

Efforts to clear unexploded munitions in places like Iraq and Southeast Asia will stop for at least three months, according to a surprise announcement. By John Ismay Reporting from Washington The ...

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Ed Miliband has been warned he is throwing away “a valuable national resource” after ministers confirmed plans to bury Britain’s massive stockpile of plutonium. The Energy Secretary was ...

By the time it came, the mine had become a tomb. Last week, rescuers recovered 78 bodies and 246 survivors — many of them weak and emaciated — from the Buffelsfontein mine in Stilfontein ...

Let us start by expressing our gratitude to you for joining us today as we officially release the 2024 Occupational Health and Safety Statistics of the South African mining industry. Just two days ago ...

For the first time in 55 years of World Economic Forum annual meetings, a Syrian official representing the government is attending Davos. Asaad Al Shibani, the country’s new Foreign Minister, arrived ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. A specialized mine rescue camera was lowered late last year into an almost 2.6-kilometer (1.6-mile) deep ...

The police force said officials had helped James Neo Tshoaeli, a Lesotho national also known as Tiger, to escape after he was pulled up from the mine in Stilfontein. More than 240 illegal miners ...

JOHANNESBURG, Jan 20 (Reuters) - A suspected gang leader known as "Tiger" escaped with the help of South African police after being pulled from an illegal gold mine last week where at least 78 ...