A devastating gas explosion tore through a Siberian coal mine Monday, killing at least 78 miners, Russian officials said, as emergency workers raced to rescue dozens still trapped underground.
“The latest figures we have is 78 killed,” the Kemerovo regional administration’s spokesman Sergei Cheremnov said as quoted by the Interfax news agency.
Earlier, emergency ministry officials said [...]

The Iranian Foreign Ministry has strongly denied the possible suspension of the uranium enrichment research, the Itar-Tass News Agency reported.
“The [uranium enrichment] moratorium is totally unacceptable, from our point of view,” Foreign Ministry Spokesman Mohammad Ali Hosseini said on Sunday, according to the Tass report.
“A moratorium, even the one for three months, does not meet [...]