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Death toll rises to 8 in cave-in at Polish copper mine

M. SCISLOWSKA the copper mining compa- southwestern Polish town atek said work continued jor injuries.
Associated Press ny KGHM in 55 years. of Polkowice. The German Wednesday in other areas Prime Minister Beata Szydlo,
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Five other miners have Research Center for Geo- of the mine, which is op- a miner’s daughter, visited
The director of a Polish cop- been hospitalized but their sciences reported a mag- erated by the KGHM Pol- the mine Wednesday, of-
per mine said Wednesday lives are not in danger and nitude-4.5 shallow earth- ska Miedz, or Polish Copper fering support for the vic-
rescue teams have recov- a few others escaped un- quake in the region at the Company. tims’ families. Health Minis-
ered the bodies of the last scathed. Markowski said time of the cave-in. Piatek said Tuesday’s acci- ter Konstanty Radziwill visit-
three workers missing inside the victims ranged in age Mining authorities and pros- dent brings to 15 the num- ed the hospitalized miners.
the mine after it caved in. from 23 to 50. Rescuers ecutors have opened in- ber of fatalities at KGHM fa- Poland’s lawmakers ob-
The discovery brought the used bare hands and light vestigations into the cave- cilities this year, 13 of them served a minute of silence
death toll from the cave- equipment in difficult con- in. in copper mines and two in and prayed for the victims.
in triggered by an earth- ditions to reach the victims, Rudna is Europe’s largest copper mills. President Andrzej Duda,
quake on Tuesday night to he said The tremor oc- copper ore mine, and one In 2013, 19 miners were on a state visit to Sweden,
eight. curred shortly after 9 p.m. of the biggest in the world, trapped in the Rudna mine extended his condolences
Director Pawel Markowski Tuesday some 1,100 meters with output capacity of 12 following a local tremor to the miners’ families and
called the miners’ deaths (3,610 feet) underground million tons of ore a year. and a cave-in but they pledged state support for
the greatest tragedy for in the Rudna mine in the Spokeswoman Jolanta Pi- were rescued with no ma- them. q

Lithuania ministers say Trump right on EU defense costs

week, Lithuania’s foreign pendence of our country
and defense ministers said is very important and we
that they believed that should put attention on
some of Trump’s language that and not only waiting
during the campaign and relying for everything
shouldn’t be taken too seri- on the United States.”
ously. Lithuania and the other
They also said that they are Baltic states, Estonia and
confident that he would Latvia, are nervous about
continue a decades-long Russia’s new assertiveness
American tradition of in the region, something
standing by allies in Europe that prompted Lithuania
and the world. to ramp up its spending
“I hope and believe — and on its army already before
I can’t imagine otherwise Trump made his comments
— that the U.S. will remain a on NATO to The New York
key player in the world and Times in July.
also a leader of NATO,” For- Lithuania, an Eastern Eu-
eign Minister Linas Linkevi- ropean nation of 3 million

Lithuania’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevicius speaks to The Associated Press in the Min- cius said Tuesday. people, vowed in 2014 to
istry of Foreign Affairs in Vilnius, Lithuania, Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2016. Lithuanian foreign and de- Defense Minister Juozas reach the NATO target of
fense ministers said they believed that some of Donald Trump’s language during the campaign Olekas shared similar op- spending 2 percent of GDP
shouldn’t be taken too seriously and that they are confident that he will continue a decades-long timism, and said Trump is by 2020. But Olekas said it
American tradition of standing by allies in Europe and the world. right that the U.S. shouldn’t would reach that target
(AP Photo/Mindaugas Kulbis) have to bear most of the two years earlier, in 2018.
cost of defending the This year the country is on
VANESSA GERA dent-elect Donald Trump is gesting that American mili- Western alliance. target to spend 1.8 percent
DAVID KEYTON actually right that Europe- tary guarantees to NATO “President Donald Trump on defense.
Associated Press ans must increase military members could depend said that Europe in general Trump’s praise of Russian
VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) spending. on whether they are pay- should put more attention President Vladimir Putin has
— Two senior Lithuanian Trump stunned Washing- ing enough on defense. on defense and we fully also raised concerns across
officials have told The As- ton’s allies during the U.S. In separate interviews with agree,” Olekas said Mon- a region where Putin is
sociated Press that Presi- election campaign by sug- The Associated Press this day. “The peace and inde- feared. q

Greece: 70 migrants found in a snowy northern forest

COSTAS KANTOURIS told Greek police they had the past two days across ney out of Turkey. Aziz was significant increase in peo-
Associated Press crossed the Evros River on many parts of the country, trying to get to Sweden, ple crossing illegally in re-
THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) the Greek-Turkish border with nighttime snowfall in where other members of his cent months. Police figures
— Greek authorities picked in dinghies and were then the mountains and north- family are living. show 11 smugglers and 291
up about 70 migrants, in- brought to Thessaloniki hid- ern areas. Under a European Union- migrants were detained
cluding children, in a snowy den in a truck. “We stayed all night in the Turkey deal reached in in the area in September,
forest near the northern city The truck driver left them forest. It was very cold and March, migrants and refu- while 22 smugglers and 655
of Thessaloniki on Wednes- in the forest late Tuesday, it was snowing,” 22-year- gees arriving on Greek is- migrants were caught in
day, as smugglers turned to and they spent the night old Syrian Omar Abdi Aziz lands from Turkey face de- October.
previously popular routes there in the snow, authori- told The Associated Press portation back to Turkey. More than 62,000 migrants
into the European Union ties said. by telephone. However, the deal doesn’t and refugees are strand-
rather than the sea crossing Police are searching for the “We are very tired,” he said, extend to those crossing ed in Greece, many living
from Turkey. driver. adding they had been the two countries’ land bor- in overcrowded refugee
Members of the group, who Temperatures have walking for more than three der. camps set up across the
said they were from Syria, plunged below freezing in days as part of their jour- The Evros region has seen a country.q