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US expert: Chile “good and lucky” but risks remain (AP)

October 12th, 2010

Cintya Torres, left, and Maria Jose Gomez, niece and daughter respectively of Mario Gomez, one of the 33 miners trapped inside the San Jose mine, apply make-up before a TV interview at the relatives camp outside the mine, near Copiapo, Chile, Monday, Oct. 11, 2010. The miners became trapped when the gold and copper mine collapsed on Aug. 5 and are expected to be rescued starting late Tuesday or early Wednesday. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)AP - Chile has done a remarkable job of preparing to rescue 33 miners trapped a half-mile underground, but many risks remain simply because never before has anyone tried to…

Chile mine engineers weigh risks of encasing shaft (AP)

October 7th, 2010

A helmet sits on a rock covered with the names of the 33 miners trapped in the collapsed San Jose mine at a camp where relatives wait for news outside the mine in Copiapo, Chile, Wednesday Oct. 6, 2010. Thirty-three miners have been trapped deep underground in the copper and gold mine since it collapsed on Aug. 5. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)AP - It’s the nightmare scenario: The earth shifts just as a miner is being pulled to safety, jamming his escape capsule somewhere between the surface and the underground cavern…

Curbing Taliban opium trade risks loss of support (AP)

March 24th, 2010

In this photo taken on Wednesday, March 24, 2010, a U.S. Marine carries a cargo net to a helicopter in Marjah, Afghanistan, which landed at a poppy field outside their base.  When U.S., Afghan and NATO forces stormed Marjah in February, they were told to seize large opium stashes but leave farmers' poppy fields alone. (AP Photo/Dusan Vranic)AP - Curbing the Taliban’s multimillion dollar opium poppy business was a major goal of a military operation to seize this former insurgent stronghold. With the town in NATO hands,…

Biden urges Israel to take risks for peace (AP)

March 9th, 2010

Vice President Joseph Biden, center, enters a car upon his arrival to Ben Gurion airport, near Tel Aviv, Israel, Monday, March 8, 2010.  Biden arrived to Israel Monday, the first leg of a five-day tour of the Middle East. Biden's trip is the highest-level visit to Israel and the Palestinian territories yet by an Obama administration official. (AP Photo/Baz Ratner, Pool)AP - Vice President Joseph Biden has told Israel that the U.S. is willing to stand by those who will “take risks for peace.”


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