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More than 300 people were evacuated from a mine in the Kemerovo region of Russia after a fire broke out underground. Emergency crews responded to the blaze, and authorities reported no casualties in the initial reports. Mine incidents in Kuzbass, Russia's main coal-mining region, draw wide attention because of the sector's history of deadly accidents.
- 2Philippines minerals boom raises old human rights concerns●A new minerals push confronts an old human rights problem in the Philippines
A renewed push to extract minerals in the Philippines is colliding with long-standing human rights problems, according to Oxfam America's Politics of Poverty blog. The piece argues that expanded mining, driven by global demand for critical minerals, risks repeating abuses against local and indigenous communities that have marked the sector in the past.