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WEDNESDAY, MAY 14, 2014
70 dead, more than 200 trapped after mine explosion THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
TURKEY
ANKARA, Turkey — An explosion and a fire Tuesday killed some 70 workers at a coal mine in western Turkey and trapped several others underground, the country’s disaster agency said as it launched a massive rescue operation. It was not immediately clear how many more miners were still trapped in the coal mine in the town of Soma, some 250 kilometres south of Istanbul. Authorities say the disaster followed an explosion and fire caused by a power distribution centre. A government official told The Associated Press that the death toll was expected to rise further. Turkish Energy Minister Taner Yildiz said the situation was “worrisome” and rescue efforts would last until the morning. Earlier, Turkey’s disaster and emergency management agency said about 20 people had been rescued from the site, 11 of them with injuries. Television footage showed people cheering and applauding as some trapped workers emerged out of the mine, helped by rescuers, their faces and hardhats covered in soot. One wiped away tears on his jacket, another smiled, waved and flashed a “thumbs up” sign at onlookers. The accident occurred during a shift change so the exact number of trapped workers was not known. Authorities had said the blast left between 200 to 300
miners underground but the disaster agency later gave the number as “more than 200 workers.” There was no information on the condition of those trapped. But the disaster management agency said authorities were preparing for the possibility that the death toll could jump dramatically, making arrangements to set up a cold storage facility to hold the corpses of miners recovered from the site. “Evacuation efforts are underway. I hope that we are able to rescue them,” Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said earlier in televised comments. His office said Erdogan postponed a one-day visit to Albania on Wednesday over the accident and would visit Soma instead. Rescuers were pumping fresh air into the mine and rescue teams from neighbouring regions rushed to the area, said Taner, the energy minister, who immediately went to Soma to oversee the rescue operation. But the rescue effort was being hampered by the fact that the mine was made up of tunnels that were kilometres long, said Cengiz Ergun, the leader of Manisa province, where the town is located. Hundreds of people gathered outside the mine and the hospital in Soma seeking news of their loved ones. NTV television said people broke into applause as rescued workers arrived in ambulances. Interviewed by Dogan news agency, some com-
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Miners carry a rescued miner after an explosion and fire at a coal mine killed 70 miners and left up to 300 workers trapped underground, in Soma, in western Turkey, Tuesday. plained about the lack of information from state and company officials about the situation of the trapped workers. Police set up fences and stood guard around Soma state hospital to keep the crowds away. SOMA Komur Isletmeleri A.S., which owns the mine, confirmed that a number of its workers were killed but would not give a specific figure. It said the accident occurred despite the “highest safety measures and constant controls” and added that an investigation was being launched. “Our main priority is to get our workers out so that they may be reunited with their loved ones,” the company said in a statement.
European court: Six Ukrainian soldiers killed in ambush People can ask Google to remove personal info from search results THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS AMSTERDAM, Netherlands — Europe’s highest court Tuesday gave people the means to scrub their reputations online, issuing a landmark ruling that experts say could force Google and other search engines to delete references to old debts, long-ago arrests and other unflattering episodes. Embracing what has come to be called “the right to be forgotten,” the Court of Justice of the European Union said people should have some say over what information comes up when someone Googles them. The decision was celebrated by some as a victory for privacy rights in an age when just about everything — good or bad — leaves a permanent electronic trace. Others warned it could interfere with the celebrated free flow of information online and lead to censorship. The ruling stemmed from a case out of Spain involving Google, but it applies to the entire 28-nation bloc of over 500 million people and all search engines in Europe, including Yahoo and Microsoft’s Bing. It has no immediate effect on the way Google and other search engines display their results in the U.S. or other countries outside Europe. In its ruling, which cannot be appealed, the EU court said search engines must listen and sometimes comply when people ask for the removal of links to newspaper articles or other sites containing outdated or otherwise objectionable information about themselves. The court provided little guidance on exactly how to make such judgments. Google Inc. has long maintained that people with such complaints should take it up with the websites that posted the material. But persuading websites to drop material can be difficult and time-consuming. The EU ruling would presumably make it easier by putting the burden on search engines. “This is a disappointing ruling for search engines and online publishers in general,” the Mountain View, California, company said in a statement. Though Europe is one of Google’s biggest markets, the decision isn’t expected to have much effect on the company’s earnings. That’s because it has no direct bearing on the online ads that Google places alongside its search results. Investors evidently weren’t worried. Google’s most widely traded class of stock gained $3.11 to close at $541.54 Tuesday. It’s unclear exactly how the European court envisions Google and others handling complaints. Google, though, has dealt with similar situations in the past. The company already censors some of its search results in several countries to comply with local laws.
KIEV, Ukraine — An insurgent ambush killed six soldiers Tuesday in eastern Ukraine as Germany moved to jumpstart a possible plan toward peace that includes launching a dialogue on decentralizing the government in Kyiv. Ukraine’s leadership appeared cool to the plan and U.S. officials view its prospects for success skeptically. But some analysts say Russian President Vladimir Putin is more likely to accept a deal that doesn’t come from Washington German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier is in Ukraine to try to broker a quick launch of talks between the central government and pro-Russia separatists. That would be a first step in implementing a “road map” drawn up by the Organization of Security and Cooperation in Europe aimed at settling the crisis. The OSCE is a trans-Atlantic security and rights group that includes Russia and the U.S., whose sparring over each other’s role in Ukraine sometimes overshadows events on the ground. Speaking in Brussels, acting Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk thanked the OSCE for its plan but
said Ukraine has drawn up its own “road map” for ending the crisis and noted the people of his country should settle the issue themselves. A settlement has been elusive, as insurgents in eastern Ukraine seize police stations and government buildings. Two regions in the east have declared themselves independent after a weekend referendum, and one of them, Donetsk, has appealed for annexation by Russia. Ukrainian forces have mounted an offensive to try to put down the armed insurgents. On Tuesday, the Defence Ministry said six soldiers were killed by insurgents who ambushed a convoy. The separatist leader in Luhansk, one of the regions that declared independence, was shot and wounded, insurgents said. The U.S. and Western European countries accuse Russia of fomenting the unrest, with the goal of destabilizing the country or seeking a pretext to invade and seize eastern regions, which are largely Russian-speaking and the heartland of Ukrainian industry. Russia in turn denounces Ukraine’s caretaker government, which took power after pro-Russia president Viktor Yanukovych was ousted in February following months of large protests. Moscow calls it a nationalist junta encouraged by Washington.
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