Authorities launched an operation in November to force the illegally operating miners out by cutting off food and water from ...

Indonesian rescuers have recovered at least 16 bodies that were swept away in flash floods or buried under tons of mud and rocks that hit hilly villages on the country’s main island of Java ...

Palestinian officials estimate 10,000 bodies are under the debris covering Gaza after the devastating 15-month war.

Rescuers determined late on Wednesday there was no-one left in the shaft, the head of Mines Rescue Services, Mannas Fourie, told reporters at the site. The cage was sent down again with cameras on ...

Stilfontein (South Africa) (AFP) – Rescuers retrieving illegal miners from a disused South African gold shaft said on Thursday a final sweep appeared to show nobody was left underground, after ...

STILFONTEIN, South Africa — (AP) — Rescuers sent a cage-like structure down into one of South ... Authorities have come under scrutiny for their tactics after South African Cabinet Minister ...

Rescuers are sending a cage-like structure into ... Illegal mining is common in parts of gold-rich South Africa where companies close down mines that are no longer profitable, leaving groups ...

Rescuers are sending a cage-like structure into one of South ... Illegal mining is common in parts of gold-rich South Africa where companies close down mines that are no longer profitable, leaving ...

STILFONTEIN, South Africa - South African rescuers were making final efforts ... way of verifying information from volunteers who went down on Wednesday evening and said they could see no one ...