 In death, 14 West Virginia coal miners have achieved something that just a month ago seemed an unlikely goal: Labor, industry and lawmakers are united in demanding that a dangerous subterranean occupation be made safer. Hours after the bodies of two missing miners were found Saturday in Aracoma Coal's Alma No. 1 mine at Melville, Gov. Joe Manchin and West Virginia's congressional delegation called for a major overhaul of state and federal mine safety laws. Both the National Mining Association and the United Mine Workers of America said Sunday that they, too, will press for change. ...
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 Gas starts flowing to crisis-hit Georgia |
Gas started flowing to Georgia on Monday after an explosion shut off supplies from Russia which Georgian officials accused of deliberately triggering an energy crisis in its small ex-Soviet neighbor. Two explosions in Russia's North Ossetia province on Sunday knocked out the main pipeline that exports gas across the border to Georgia which is experiencing an unusually cold winter. "This morning, partial supplies of gas to Tbilisi resumed," presidential chief of staff Georgy Arveladze said. "It will take several days to resume gas supplies nationwide." ...
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| Sympathy for al-Qaida Surges in Pakistan |
Sympathy for al-Qaida has surged after a U.S. airstrike devastated this remote mountain hamlet in a region sometimes as hostile toward the Pakistani government as it is to the United States. A week after the attack, villagers insist no members of the terror network were anywhere near the border village when it was hit. But thousands of protesters flooded a nearby town chanting, "Long live Osama bin Laden!"Pakistan's army, in charge of hunting militants, was nowhere to be seen.The rally was the latest in a series of demonstrations across Pakistan against the Jan. 13 attack, which apparently targeted but missed al-Qaida's No. 2, Ayman al-Zawahri.The military still mans numerous checkpoints in the area, but it appears to be keeping a low profile so it will not inflame villagers still seething over the deaths of 13 civilians, including women and children, in the attack....
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| Thousands Rally Against U.S. Airstrike |
Thousands of angry Pakistanis protested Sunday against a U.S. airstrike that killed civilians, chanting "Long live Osama bin Laden!" as anti-American rallies in the country entered their second week. Pakistani authorities, meanwhile, arrested a relative of a man suspected of hiding the bodies of four suspected al Qaeda operatives believed killed in the Jan. 13 attack, a security official said on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media. The man, who was not identified, was arrested in Damadola, the remote hamlet near the Afghan border where U.S. missiles struck Jan. 13, the official said. The suspect was related to Faqir Mohammed, a pro-Taliban cleric who intelligence officials believe was responsible for hiding the bodies. ...
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| McCain Says Congressional `Earmarks' a Source of Corruption |
Republican Senator John McCain said Congress won't be able to stem corruption until lawmakers give up their ability to direct money to special projects. McCain said the proposals from leaders of both parties to change lobbying rules in the wake of the Jack Abramoff scandal don't address the part of congressional budgeting in which senators and representatives can ``earmark'' funding for government projects or contractors in their home districts. ``The reason why the lobbying is out of control is because of the process,'' McCain, of Arizona, said on the ``Fox News Sunday'' program. ``And that's a thing called earmarking, or pork barrel projects.'' ...
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| Many abducted Iraqis found dead |
Iraqi security officials have discovered the bodies of 23 police volunteers kidnapped last Monday. The men were found shot dead on open land north of the capital Baghdad, the officials said. The victims were part of a group of 35 men seized by insurgents as they travelled home to the northern city of Samarra by bus last Monday evening. They were returning home after they had failed to be accepted into a police training school. ...
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