Time stands still in Pakistani salt mine
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KHEWRA, Pakistan -- At Asia's oldest salt mine, the march of technology stopped generations ago. Bare-chested laborers use hand drills and gunpowder to blast away the pink and orange rock crystal, lucky if they earn a couple of dollars a day.
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WANA, Pakistan - Pakistani security forces used artillery against suspected militants Monday in the restive South Waziristan tribal region even as the army reported that fighting had subsided with about a dozen people dead.
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Rescuers said 141 miners remained trapped in a coal mine filled with toxic gas in China&#39;s Shaanxi province Monday after an explosion the day before killed 25.
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The Taj Mahal wasn&#39;t built in a day, and it looks as if it&#39;s going to take much longer than that to torch it. Two months before the Oct. 15 release of Team America: World Police, Matt Stone and
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Three years after Osama bin Laden fled American bombs in his Tora Bora hideout, the search for the world&#39;s most wanted man has all but come to a halt because of Pakistan&#39;s
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Nearly 24 hours after five CRPF jawans were killed in a fidayeen attack on their camp, the encounter between security forces and terrorists in the Sopore district of Jammu and Kahmir is still on.
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South African gold miners continue a war of the words.
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More than $90 million in pledges made to Pakistan after a devastating earthquake a year ago has yet to be delivered and is urgently needed, former U.S. President George Bush said on Friday.
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The Himalayan region of Kashmir remains at the center of decades-long rivalry between India and Pakistan. Both South Asian nuclear powers claim the divided region and the subsequent
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Osama bin Laden is still missing and Pakistan seems to be restricting its search, but President Bush said Saturday he remains hopeful that the terrorist leader will be brought to justice.
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Signs of prayer and support for six trapped miners remained on display Saturday as residents of central Utah's coal belt struggled with the realization that the men would not be found alive.
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Despite three weeks of drilling and digging that have revealed no signs of life from six men trapped inside a collapsed coal mine, officials said Sunday the search was continuing.
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MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan  - Grief knows no boundaries in divided Kashmir.
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PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Feb. 3 -- A Libyan al-Qaeda commander who was killed last week in northwestern Pakistan had lived there for years and, despite a $200,000 U.S. bounty on his head, felt secure enough to meet officials and visit hospitals, according to officials and residents of this city.
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A year after surviving Pakistan's devastating earthquake, Dubri Bandi's villagers still live in fear.
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RUDA SLASKA, Poland  - Hopes of saving 15 miners trapped for more than 24 hours in a Polish coal mine faded on Wednesday after life-threatening conditions forced rescue crews to suspend work.
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A year after the arrest of A. Q. Khan, the architect of Pakistan's bomb, secrets of his nuclear black market continue to uncoil.