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'Twisted Metal' Showrunner Reveals How Calypso's Wishes Will Impact John and Quiet in Season 2
Collider
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August 16, 2025
Summary Showrunner Michael Jonathan Smith spoke with Collider's Michael Zimmermann to discuss Twisted Metal Season 2. Smith says the second season expands the show's "big cinematic universe," and reveals which characters he's most excited for fans...
3 killed in mine shaft collapse
Bulawayo 24 News
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August 16, 2025
Business / Companies by Staff reporter 1 hr ago | Views THREE artisanal miners lost their lives and two others were seriously injured when a mine shaft collapsed in the Mandindi area near Sino Cement on Wednesday, local authorities confirmed....
Illegal crypto mining operators leave Tajikistan to pick up $3.52 million bill
Cryptopolitan
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August 16, 2025
Tajikistan claims damages from illegal Bitcoin mining operations. According to the country’s Attorney General Khabibullo Vokhidzoda, the country lost more than $3.52 million to this menace in the first half of 2025. Speaking at a press conference,...
Gold Miners Are Crushing Gold: UBS Says Grab These 5 Cheap Picks
24/7 Wall St.
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August 15, 2025
Investing RomanR / Shutterstock.com In 2025, gold-mining stocks are generally outperforming the price of gold, driven by high gold prices and improved operational efficiencies. The VanEck Gold Miners ETF (NYSE: GDX), a key benchmark for...
World Associated Press Military airstrike on gem mining town kills at least 21 in Myanmar
Yahoo News
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BANGKOK (AP) — An airstrike by Myanmar’s military on the town of Mogok, the center of the Southeast Asian country’s lucrative gem-mining industry, has killed at least 21 people including a pregnant woman, an armed opposition group, local residents...
Military airstrike on gem mining town kills at least 21 in Myanmar
The Derrick and The News-Herald - Pennsylvania
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BANGKOK (AP) — An airstrike by Myanmar’s military on the town of Mogok, the center of the Southeast Asian country’s lucrative gem-mining industry, has killed at least 21 people including a pregnant woman, an armed opposition group, local residents...
Europe’s biggest mine and Sweden’s iconic red church: The 5km move almost 20 years in the making
Malay Mail
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August 16, 2025
STOCKHOLM, Aug 16 — A historic red wooden church considered one of Sweden’s most beautiful buildings is to be moved from its longtime home in the Arctic town of Kiruna next week as part of a campaign to expand Europe’s biggest underground mine....
KPK Investigates Alleged Corruption Linked to Lombok Mining Activities
Tempo.co
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August 16, 2025
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) is currently investigating a corruption case linked to mining activities in Lombok, West Nusa Tenggara, as confirmed by the Acting Deputy of Enforcement and Execution Asep Guntur...
Flatfoot Dancing, Geocaching And A Coal Mine Rescue Competition, This West Virginia Week
West Virginia Public Broadcasting
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August 16, 2025
Home » WVPB Podcasts » Flatfoot Dancing, Geocaching And A Coal Mine Rescue Competition, This West Virginia Week Chris Schulz Published August 16, 2025 - 8:00 am On this West Virginia Week, some folks can’t help but dance when they hear traditional...
Canada, beware: Alberta is the canary in the coal mine
Calgary Herald
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August 16, 2025
But if we do not defend our values, compassion, fairness and truth, we will lose them. We must remember who we are. We are the country that gave the world Medicare and said no to Iraq. We are the country that once believed in peacekeeping, in...
Protestors rally in Holland, call for Campbell coal plant to close
Ottawa News Network - Michigan
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August 16, 2025
HOLLAND — Ottawa County residents continued to call for the closure of the coal-fired J.H. Campbell coal plant on Friday, decrying a Trump Administration order in May that prevented the facility from closing as planned earlier this year. "The...
Africa oil & gas providers form local content body
Daily Trust
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Oil and gas service providers across Africa have formed a continental forum known as the African Local Content Organisation (ALCO), with the goal of collaborating among themselves to deliver complex projects, creating and retaining value in the...
Afghanistan expands mining sector to boost economy
Xinhua News Agency
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KABUL, Aug. 16 (Xinhua) -- Afghanistan has operated large and small-scale mining projects, providing thousands of jobs to local people, the office of the acting deputy prime minister for economic affairs announced on Saturday. According to the...
Eco-sensitive Western Ghats: Centre’s forest panel declines final nod for Hindalco’s mine in Kolhapur
The Indian Express
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August 16, 2025
The Environment Ministry’s Forest Advisory Committee (FAC) has, for now, declined Stage-II or final approval for Hindalco Industries Ltd’s bauxite mine in Maharashtra’s Kolhapur, as it falls under the eco-sensitive areas (ESA) of the Western...
Mining rates improve as Equinox fine-tunes Greenstone operation
Timmins Today
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Equinox Gold is working through some growing pains at its new Greenstone Gold mine in northwestern Ontario after a slower than anticipated start. Greenstone, one of Canada’s largest open-pit gold mines, began commercial production last November....
Who is Brian O Kelley
The Times of India
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In 2018, Brian O’Kelley achieved what many tech entrepreneurs dream of: the sale of AppNexus, the ad-tech company he co-founded in 2007, to AT&T for $1.6 billion. But unlike the typical billionaire narrative of yachts, private jets, and sprawling...
Gold Edges Up As US Inflation Data Boosts Rate Cut Expectations
MENAFN
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August 15, 2025
(MENAFN- Investor Brand Network) The price of gold increased earlier this week after the latest inflation data reinforced expectations of the Fed reducing rates of interest. Spot gold saw its price hit $3,347.34 per ounce, representing a .1%...
I quit my job to go on a non-stop cruise with food, booze & spa included – I paid £90k but the room’s mine for 15 YEARS
The Scottish Sun
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August 16, 2025
FOR Rina Cavazza, being at sea on a luxury cruise ship with a cocktail in her hand is not just reserved for holidays - it's something she enjoys all year round. Because the 50-year-old former fitness instructor lives on the Villa Vie Odyssey...
EFCC Recovers N100m Unremitted Mining Procceds In Akwa Ibom
Leadership
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August 16, 2025
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) said over N100 million unremitted funds has so far been recovered from mining operators in Akwa Ibom State. LEADERSHIP gathered that the proceeds have been lodged in the federal government...
Are banks becoming coal-curious? Mike Teke thinks so
Skillings Mining Review - Florida
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August 16, 2025
ONE sign coal’s reputation is being gradually rehabiliated is that banks and insurers are becoming interested in the the mineral again. “I think people are reviewing their position. They are looking at the situation and saying, there’s a...