World | Afghanistan: The Chinese citizen was travelling on Tuesday evening in northern Takhar province bordering Tajikistan when he was killed by "unknown armed men". 

Chinese national killed in attack in Afghanistan, ISIS claims responsibility

Turkish authorities are racing against time to rescue mine workers stuck underground. What caused the incident? And did authorities overlook safety hazards in the gold mine? Ghadi Francis gets you this report.

Landslide traps Turkish mine workers

More than 100 miners escaped from a gold mine in South Africa on Wednesday after being held underground for three days by fellow employees in a union dispute, a company official said. Around 450 workers remain in the mine, the official said, with an unknown number of them preventing the others from leaving as they demand formal recognition of their labour union.

South Africa: 543 mine workers end protest, 15 people injured due to scuffle in mine

A few minutes from Bolivian city of Potosi, one of the poorest cities in the country lies one of the richest silver mines known as Cerro Rico which is slowly collapsing into itself

Silver mine in Bolivia poses a fatal threat to group of workers

The Islamic State group on Wednesday claimed responsibility for a deadly attack on a compound housing workers from the HALO Trust de-mining group, after the Britain-based charity contradicted a government report and said the Taliban weren't to blame.

Afghanistan: Islamic State claims responsibility for attack on mine-clearing workers

Mine workers demanded more protection before deadly Burkina Faso attack

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