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Today in History: December 6, 13th Amendment ratified, abolishing slavery

Dec. 06, 2024 00:14 AM EST

Today is Friday, Dec. 6, the 341st day of 2024. There are 25 days left in the year. Today in history: On Dec. 6, 1865, the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, abolishing slavery, was ratified as Georgia became the 27th state to endorse it. Also on...

At a sinkhole above an abandoned Pennsylvania coal mine, hopes of a rescue dwindle

Dec. 05, 2024 15:01 PM EST

Three days after a Pennsylvania woman searching for her cat disappeared at the chasm of a three-story deep sinkhole, the digging crews were back at it Thursday, hoping for a miracle but expecting to recover her remains. The scope of the effort was scaled down after authorities...

Underground voids from abandoned mines pose danger to people and property when land collapses

Dec. 04, 2024 22:51 PM EST

Swaths of Pennsylvania and many other states are honeycombed with old, unstable mines that can cause the earth to suddenly give way and threaten people and property. That's what searchers in Westmoreland County, just southeast of Pittsburgh, fear led to the disappearance of...

Gunmen in Central African Republic killed 10 people near a diamond mining town

Nov. 26, 2024 12:03 PM EST

BANGUI, Central African Republic (AP) — Gunmen in Central African Republic killed six motorcycle taxi drivers and four of their clients near the central diamond mining town of Bria, authorities said Tuesday. The motorcycle taxi drivers and their clients were driving back from a...

Rebel group takes key Myanmar border town and rare earth mining hub in setback for military regime

Nov. 26, 2024 04:56 AM EST

BANGKOK (AP) — A powerful rebel group has seized a key trading town in northeastern Myanmar on the Chinese border, taking control of a lucrative rare earth mining hub in another setback for the military-led government, according to witnesses. The apparent loss of Kanpaiti to the...

Japan holds first memorial for 'all workers' at Sado gold mines but blurs WWII atrocity. Why?

Nov. 25, 2024 21:01 PM EST

SADO, Japan (AP) — Japanese officials have held a memorial ceremony near the Sado Island Gold Mines, listed in July as a UNESCO World Heritage site after Japan moved past years of historical disputes with South Korea and reluctantly acknowledged the mines' dark history. However, it has not...

Japan holds Sado mines memorial despite South Korean boycott amid lingering historical tensions

Nov. 24, 2024 08:26 AM EST

SADO, Japan (AP) — Japanese officials on Sunday paid tribute to workers at the country's Sado Island Gold Mines but offered no apology over Japan’s brutal wartime use of Korean forced laborers, highlighting lingering tensions between the neighbors over the issue. South Korea a...

Belem, host of next year's climate talks, is Amazonian city plagued with pollution and violence

Nov. 20, 2024 00:09 AM EST

BELEM, Brazil (AP) — For the last few years, climate scientists, environmentalists and Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva have been talking up the first U.N. climate conference to be held in the Amazon. The largest tropical forest in the world stores huge amounts of planet-warming...

South African government seeks experts' help to bring illegal miners to the surface

Nov. 15, 2024 14:05 PM EST

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The South African government said on Friday it has put together a team including mine rescue experts to come up with a plan to bring to surface illegal miners who remain under a disused gold mine. The move signaled the government was taking a more conciliatory...

8 miners are dead and 1 is missing after a mine collapse in Zambia

Oct. 30, 2024 16:18 PM EDT

LUSAKA, Zambia (AP) — Eight miners died after being buried under mounds of earth that collapsed on them in an open-pit copper mine in Zambia on Wednesday, police said. One miner was missing and another two survived, provincial police commissioner Peacewell Mweemba said. State media...