13 March 2019. Canada’s Goldcorp said a strike at its Cerro Negro mine in Argentina has forced it to halt operations at the site, the company’s biggest gold producing asset in the South American country. ...
25 January 2019. After nine months of intermittent production due to illegal strikes and social unrest, Barrick Gold’s Tongon mine in Ivory Coast returned to normal in the last quarter of 2018, achieved ...
18 January 2019. The outlook for Americas mining remains positive over the coming years, but miners will face challenges from tension over water usage from local communities if El Niño strikes and political ...
29 November 2018. Unionized workers at BHP's Spence copper mine in Chile, on strike since earlier this week over layoffs, said operations at the mine have been shut down ever since. The move followe ...
23 November 2018. South Africa’s Sibanye-Stillwater has halted all its gold mining operations in the country after violence broke out overnight during a strike by workers demanding higher wages.
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15 October 2018. One of India's most prominent environmental activists has died at the age of 86 after more than 15 weeks of a hunger strike to protest against government inaction on cleaning up th ...
... the end of the negotiation process and removes the threat of a strike.
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31 July 2018. Unionized workers at Codelco's Chuquicamata copper mine in Chile downed tools on Monday saying they had “exhausted” all instances for dialogue with management.
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18 July 2018. Randgold Resources said Monday a workers’ strike at its at Tongon gold mine in the Ivory Coast had brought production to a halt after government-led negotiations broke down.
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13 July 2018. Norway’s ongoing oil workers’ strike is set to shut more rigs on the Norwegian Continental Shelf as the employers’ association has not contacted the trade union for new talks yet.
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... the 7 MW scheme in place for the nearby community after the mine closes.
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7 April 2018. Torrential rain, strong winds, lightning strikes and flash floods hit parts of Indiana and Illinois on Tuesday, 03 April, 2018, closing roads and schools and promoting flood rescues.
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23 March 2018. Decidedly, Faraday Future (FF) is no stranger to 11th hour, last-minute, dramatic rebounds. Yesterday, the company finally gave some good news after a series of negative strikes that ...
17 December 2017. A major Nigerian oil union said on Saturday it would launch a strike from Monday after talks aimed at resolving a dispute with domestic oil and gas companies reached a deadlock.
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25 November 2017. Unionized workers at Chile's Escondida copper mine, the world's largest, began Thursday a 24-hour strike to protest recent layoffs affecting about 3% of the operation’s workforce.
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17 October 2017. Iraqi government forces captured the major Kurdish-held oil city of Kirkuk on Monday, responding to a Kurdish referendum on independence with a bold lightning strike that transforms ...
3 October 2017. Thousands of people took to the streets of Barcelona and other Catalan cities to protest against Spanish police violence.
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... the Lonmin and Impala Platinum (Implats) operations in Rustenburg, and strike activity at Exxaro Resources’ Goedgeluk and Leeuwpan mines in the Limpopo and Mpumalanga provinces respectively.
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8 September 2017. A strong earthquake of magnitude 8.1 has struck off southern Mexico, killing at least five people. The epicentre was in the Pacific, about 87km (54 miles) south-west ...
24 August 2017. Harvey, which could strengthen into the first hurricane to strike Texas since 2008 this week, has already spurred one refiner to start shutting down a plant, forced workers to be ...
20 July 2017. Workers at 56 industry unions in the country, the world’s second-largest copper producer, are taking part of the strike, which will affect major mines, including BHP and Glencore’s ...
26 June 2017. Sibanye Gold, South Africa's largest producer of the precious metal, fired Thursday more than 1,500 workers taking part in a now 9-day strike at its Cooke mine.
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10 June 2017. Sharara had been producing nearly 270,000 barrels per day (bpd) before employees went on strike on Wednesday over a lack of medical treatment for a colleague who died in a swimming ...
... by multiple airstrikes carried out by Russian and Syrian aircraft on ISIS targets in the Maskanah countryside.
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27 April 2017. Israeli strikes have hit an arms depot operated by the Lebanese Hezbollah group near Damascus airport, Syrian opposition sources told Al Jazeera.
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22 November 2016. There were reports of minor injuries and damage, Japanese broadcaster NHK said. The earthquake shook buildings in Tokyo, 150 miles southwest of the epicentre.
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13 November 2016. New Zealand's South Island has been hit by a 7.4 magnitude earthquake, US experts say.
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7 Setember 2016. After hours of intense airstrikes and artillery shelling, the Syrian Army launched an attack on the Ramousah district neighboring the Ramousah Artillery Base from several flanks.
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8 August 2016. After intense air strikes around the Palmyra region in east Homs, the Syrian Army launched an offensive in the adjacent east Hama ISIS-controlled blob.
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8 June 2016. Amaq News has released footage from northern Mosul showing an Islamic State oil market purportedly devastated by U.S. airstrikes. Yesterday, a similar video featured oil tankers destroyed ...
26 May 2016. After the CGT union workers joined the rolling nationwide strike, French nuclear power capacity was cut by at least four gigawatts (GW) on Thursday, according to the website of RTE, a ...
25 May 2016. Workers at the French CGT union are staging a 24-hour strike at Nogent-sur-Seine nuclear plant, over labor law reforms. Other nuclear facilities’ employees are mulling joining the strike. ...
23 March 2016. Officials have ordered the removal of non-essential staff from the Tihange nuclear reactor, east of Brussels. Authorities had earlier tightened security around the country's nuclear ...
4 February 2016. Following airstrikes by the Russian Air Force, the Kurdish People’s Protection Unit (YPG) in the enclave of Afrin in northern Aleppo province took control of Ziyarah.
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19 January 2016. Around 20 jihadists and three SUVs with heavy machineguns were destroyed in an airstrike by Su-24 bombers on IS strongholds in Latakia, he added. Russian Su-25s eliminated an IS field ...
14 January 2016. For three years, the civilians living in the densely populated coastal province of Latakia had to endure the daily rockets and missiles fired by the Islamist rebels from the cliffs ...
12 January 2016. Early this morning, the Syrian Arab Army, National Defence Force, Syrian Social Nationalist Party and Syrian Resistance stormed the strategic town of Salma in eastern Lattakia and ...
8 January 2016. Frustration, fury and raw anger prompted thousands of Yemenis to flood the streets of the Yemeni capital following another wave of Friday morning Saudi-led airstrikes. People were protesting ...
31-12-2015. Hours ago, the Syrian Arab Army (SAA), heavily aided by Russian airstrikes, was able to impose full control over the city of Sheikh Meskin in the Daraa governorate of southern Syria. Effectively, ...
10 December 2015. Yesterday, soldiers loyal to the Saudi coalition against Yemen entered and imposed full control over the Hanish Island which is situated in the strategic Red Sea. Nevertheless, Houthi ...
8 December 2015. The development is the first significant incursion into Ramadi since Iraqi forces and allied Shiite militiamen, backed by U.S.-led coalition airstrikes, announced last month a major ...
8 December 2015. The following are the photos of the impact of the aerial aggression that was carried out on Monday by the US-led coalition on one of the Syrian army sites in Deir Ezour. The aggression ...