A police officer who raped a woman he met on a dating website has been jailed for eight years. PC Stuart Mines, 49, was off-duty when the attack took place at his home in Devon in October 2022.

OUR CAMERAS WERE THERE AS INSPECTORS FOR THE FEDERAL MINE SAFETY AND HEALTH ADMINISTRATION RETURNED TO THEIR WAYNESBURG OFFICE AFTER A DAY SPENT MAKING SURE WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA’S COAL MINES ARE ...

Cleveland Cliffs plans to temporarily idle part of the facility, along with the Minorca Mine in Virginia, Minn., resulting in the layoffs of 630 workers. Cleveland-Cliffs plans to lay off ...

March 20 (Reuters) - Poland is ready to start work on resuming the production of anti-personnel mines, its defence minister said on Thursday, after Warsaw joined the Baltic states this week in ...

The Ottawa Treaty, also known as the Mine Ban Treaty, came into force in 1997. It aims to ban anti-personnel mines - those aimed at humans - worldwide, and has been signed by more than 160 countries.

A 2023 study suggests that the shafts of such abandoned mines could serve as energy-storing gravity batteries. Editor's note: Readers often ask us for follow-ups on memorable stories. What has ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Authorities and environmentalists in Zambia fear the long-term impact of an acid spill at a Chinese-owned ...

An entire Victorian village display at a theme park in Cornwall has been sold to a historical tourist attraction for an undisclosed fee, auctioneers have confirmed. Flambards theme park in Helston ...

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Meanwhile, Zijin Mining Group is supercharging its Julong copper project, which, once complete, will become China’s largest copper extraction operation—processing a mind-boggling 100 million tons of ...