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Kiev unrest exposes rift between protesters and president's heartland
The battle over Ukraine's future has deepened the divide between the western part of this nation of 46 (m) million and its east - where most people still speak Russian and see ties with their giant neighbour as essential for Ukraine's...
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Mine Owner: Drills inch closer to trapped miners
HEADLINE: Mine Owner: Drills inch closer to trapped miners
CAPTION: Crews hoping to get food and air to six coal miners drilled to within about 1,000 feet of the trapped men Wednesday, one of the mine's owners said, though it still...
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COLUMBIA: CALI: FESTIVAL DE CALI ATTRACTS MANY VISITORS
Spanish/Nat
Not all is grief in the Colombian city of Cali.
Calenos are trying to put last week's plane crash and coal mine collapse behind them.
Some 160 people died in the crash, and nine miners were killed in the mining disaster. ...
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Energy minister says 18 workers still underground, expects final death toll of around 300
Turkey's energy minister said on Friday that a maximum of 18 miners still remain underground inside a devastated coal mine and that he expected the final death toll to be around 300.
Although he did not spell it out, Energy Minister...
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CHILE: SANTIAGO DE CHILE: SACKED COAL MINERS CLASH WITH POLICE
Natural Sound
Riot police used clubs, tear gas and water cannons on Monday to scatter hundreds of sacked coal miners demanding compensation from the government.
Police said 28 people were detained and around ten were injured.
A state...
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Latest on rescue attempts to rescue trapped miners in Utah
9 August 2007
1. Tilt down of drilling machinery at mine, crew working at bottom
2. Various of rescue crews drilling hole at mine
AP Television
10 August 2007
3. Wide of Richard Stickler, Head of the Mine Safety and Health...
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China's economic might divides rural community
Near Gunnedah - September 12, 2012
1. Close of a canola field
2. Wide of billboard reading "The Liverpool Plains. A Natural Treasure. No Coal Seam Gas"
Narrabri - September 11, 2012
3. Pan across machinery at mine
4. Close of wells at...
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Gas explosion kills 209 - biggest accident since 1940s
Night shots
1. Police in hard hats lined up along cordoned off mine area
2. Rescue workers in hard hats walking around
3. Vehicles and lorries in mine area
4. Workers apparently trying to fix mechanism over mine shaft
Three years after...
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Officials: No more mine exploration planned
HEADLINE: Officials: No more mine exploration planned
CAPTION: A coal mine in which six men have been missing for two weeks is so unstable that rescuers will only be sent inside if it's determined that someone is still alive. (Aug. 20)
...
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WRAP Funerals for victims of post-Soviet Ukraine's worst mining disaster
1. Wide of exterior of funeral
2. People carrying coffin
3. Wide of people carrying coffin
4. People near wreath
5. Close up of relatives
6. Close up of women crying
7. Woman crying by open coffin
8. Close up of women crying
9. Coffin...
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Sago coal mine reopens after tragedy
Sago Mine, West Virginia - 15 March 2006
1. Various of miners at office after their shift
2. Close-up mining equipment
3. Mine office
4. Close-up miners
5. Trucks arriving at mine
6. SOUNDBITE: (english) Ron Grall, miner from Buckhannon,...
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Prayers for victims, mine's general manager denies negligence
Residents of the western Turkish town of Soma attended Friday prayers four days after a coal mine accident claimed the lives of 284 people.
The company that owned the mine defended its safety record at a news conference on Friday while...
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Coal mine official and rescue team member speak after bodies are found in mine
1. Pan of Halemba mine building
2. Entrance to building
3. SOUNDBITE (Polish): Zbigniew Baranowski, coal mine official
"I think the explosion caught those people by surprise. The commission will probably investigate the causes, how the...
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Underground fire blocks search for two miners
1. Pull out to wide shot of church
2. Wide shot police near mine entrance
3. Medium shot of police
4. Walking shot of Roger Bryant
5. SOUNDBITE: (English) Roger Bryant, Director of Logan County Office of Emergency Services
"Obviously...
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RUSSIA: MINERS TO STRIKE OVER PAY
Russian/Nat
Angry Russian miners disillusioned with President's Yeltsin policies are to strike over pay.
Five years ago miners hailed Boris Yeltsin a hero and their vote was seen as being crucial to his election.
The miners' wrath is a...
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Relatives, friends mourn victims of mine disaster
Tallmansville, West Virginia - 5 January 2006
1. Zoom to command centre at Sago Mine
2. Man walking near construction material
3. Man coming out of command centre
4. Media around Denver Anderson
5. SOUNDBITE (English): Denver Anderson,...
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Miners in underground strike over pay and aid
1. Mid shot of miners sitting around a table
2. Close up of two miners reading papers
3. Mid shot of miners
4. Pan of two miners resting
5. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Manuel Linares, miner:
"We will be here until they give us a solution, but a...
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Angry relatives of more than 180 missing miners in China say the company that owns the mine ignored recommendations to close the mine for safety reasons.
HEADLINE: Families smash mine office in China (china-mine-flood)
CAPTION: Angry relatives of more than 180 missing miners in China say the company that owns the mine ignored recommendations to close the mine for safety reasons. (Aug....
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KAZAKHSTAN: COAL MINING INDUSTRY FACES ECONOMIC RUIN
Russian/Nat
Industrial unrest is growing in former Soviet Republic of Kazakhstan.
The country's flagship industry - coal mining - is facing economic ruin in the wake of market reforms.
Nearly one in five of Kazakhstan's pits have been...
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SOUTH AFRICA: ORKNEY: GOLD MINE ACCIDENT 56 BODIES RECOVERED
1. Miners outside Orkney mine
2.Various bodies being carried out of mine shaft on stretchers
3. Miners watching
4. C/way photographer
5. Bodies going into ambulance
6. WS Press conference
7. SOUNDBITE: Sam Shilowa, General Secretary...
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Eleven Chinese miners trapped by gas blast feared dead, relatives
1. Wide of police outside entrance of mine in Yuzhou City suburbs, Henan Province
2. Wide of two miners walking
3. Mid of police at entrance
4. Tracking shot, zoom in to relatives of woman whose husband is one of the missing miners,...
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Update on surviving miner's condition, stills, family
AP Television
1. Close-up still of Randal McCloy Junior
2. Still shot of McCloy with child
3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Tambra Flint, Mother of Randal McCloy Junior:
"I was just hoping that he would be coming off the sedation, that he would...
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POLAND: GOVERNMENT PLANS TO CLOSE 25 MINES AND CUT MINERS' JOBS
Polish/Nat
Economic growth in Poland has picked up quite significantly since the demise of Communism nearly a decade ago.
But the boom has been hampered by the unreformed Communist-style coal mining industry.
The slump in coal mining...
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DV Mine Presser
HEADLINE: Mine rescue drilling to take longer than expected
CAPTION:A drilling effort to try to make contact with six miners trapped in a collapsed coal mine was still some 130 feet from reaching their presumed location late Thursday, a...