Miners' families protest hearing in Ky.
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More than a dozen family members of miners killed in a southeastern Kentucky mine explosion protested a closed-door hearing Wednesday held by state officials investigating the blast.
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By ERICA MELTZER, ARIZONA DAILY STAR  Pima County is taking the State Land Department to court in an attempt to overturn a decision allowing mining in Davidson Canyon.  Last month, the Land Department rejected an administrative appeal filed by the county in December.
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By Terry, Juliet A  An Ohio County judge has dismissed the lawsuits filed by as many as 1,180 southern West Virginians for damage in the Coal River area dating back to July 8, 2001.  Likening their lawsuits to a fishing expedition, Circuit Judge Arthur M.
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By SAMIRA JAFARI HARLAN, Ky. - A dusty gravel driveway leads to an old house once occupied by an Appalachian family. Next door is a little shack that sells hot dogs and ice cream, and a few miles away is a series of coal processing plants.
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Accusations of corruption levied against both the president and his family have led a group of activists to protest for his resignation.
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A group of military mothers whose children have been killed in Iraq staged a protest outside Prime Minister Tony Blair's Downing Street office Friday, 24 hours before an anti-war march.
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A couple hundred people rallied outside the US Department of Labor here yesterday to protest the Bush administration&#39;s sweeping changes to overtime rules that opponents say could
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Kentucky officials are blocking state employees' Internet access to a political blog that has been critical of Gov. Ernie Fletcher, who was indicted earlier this year in connection with a state hiring scandal.
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Opponents lose their fight against a major opencast scheme in Merthyr which will extract 10m tonnes of coal.
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An Aboriginal town threatened to ban tourists from scaling giant Ayers Rock in central Australia to protest a heavy-handed government crackdown on child abuse in Aboriginal areas, a local leader said Tuesday.
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BEIJING  - All 166 miners trapped after a gas blast in China were confirmed dead, sparking riots by hundreds of angry relatives who stormed a government office, smashed windows and beat officials.
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Protesters tried to force their way into the court hearing Thursday of a white teenager charged with a shooting rampage in a black settlement that left four people dead, including a mother and her infant.
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Excerpt from report by Kyrgyz news agency 24.kg website  A committee has been set up in [northwestern] Kyrgyzstan's Talas Region to protect the rights of detained participants in the protest campaign against the development of the Dzheruy gold mine.
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Demonstrators protest against the upcoming visit to Chile by US President George Bush in front of the central courts building where a coalition of leftist groups sued Bush and other US government officials for the abuses at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq
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Hundreds of Argentines protest against a paper pulp mill in Uruguay, the latest round in a row over the mill.
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MORE than 5000 building workers and asbestos victims have rallied outside a general meeting for embattled building products company James Hardie in central Sydney today.
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Anti-landmine activists meeting in Nairobi say the US is setting a  bad example by not joining a worldwide ban.