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Business
Bulgaria coal miners brace for ‘disaster’ as phaseout looms
STARA ZAGORA: Nikolay Dinev, 34, has worked as a coal miner for 12 years but now faces an uncertain future…
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Business
‘Desert’: Drying Euphrates threatens disaster in Syria
SADD AL FURAT, Syria: Syria’s longest river used to flow by his olive grove, but today Khaled al-Khamees says it…
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World
Greece facing ‘ecological disaster’ from wildfires
ATHENS, Greece: Hundreds of firefighters battled yesterday to contain new flare-ups in wildfire-ravaged areas of Greece, where summer infernos have…
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World
‘Ecological disaster’ feared as Greece battles forest fire
ATHENS: Hundreds of firefighters battled Greece’s first major forest fire of the summer yesterday, as experts warned of a “huge…
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World
Indonesia to salvage submarine after sinking disaster
BALI: Indonesia said Friday it will salvage a submarine that sank off the coast of Bali, as grieving relatives paid…
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World
India’s glacier disaster highlights Himalayan dangers
CHAMOLI: Long before this month’s deadly flash flood in a remote Indian Himalayan valley, Kundan Singh Rana knew that all…
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Subcontinent
Bodies recovered from Indian flood disaster tunnel
INDIA: Rescuers yesterday pulled the first bodies from a blocked tunnel at a power complex in a northern Indian valley…
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Middle East
UN agency chief fears ‘disaster’ in Gaza as funding runs dry
GAZA: In this file photo taken on Oct 9, 2013 a Palestinian woman raises up a Palestinian flag during a…
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Europe
Whale tail saves Dutch metro train
SPIJKENISSE, Netherlands: A runaway Dutch metro train was saved from disaster yesterday after it smashed through a stop barrier but…
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Asia
Dreams of Myanmar’s ‘unwashed’ jade miners buried by disaster
HPAKANT: Damaged houses are seen next to the site of a deadly landslide in an area where miners work in…
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Asia
Mass burial for scores killed in mine disaster
HPAKANT: Volunteers bury bodies of miners in a mass grave while relatives look on during a funeral ceremony near Hpakant…
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