00:00A gas explosion at a coal mine in China's northern Shanxi province has killed at least
00:0690 people, state media reported on Saturday, the country's biggest mining disaster in 17 years.
00:14247 workers were underground at the time of the blast, according to China's state news agency.
00:20A total of 755 emergency and medical personnel were dispatched to the site,
00:26with rescue efforts still ongoing on Saturday afternoon, state broadcaster CCTV reported.
00:33123 people were sent to hospital for treatment, four of whom were in critical or severe condition, CCTV added.
00:40Of those sent for treatment, 33 had returned home as of 2 p.m. on Saturday.
00:46President Xi Jinping urged all-out efforts to treat the injured and called for thorough investigations into the incident.
00:53Friday's explosion was the worst mining disaster in China since 2009,
00:57when 108 people were killed in a mine blast in the northeast Heilongjiang province.
01:06The European Union has signed a revamped trade deal with Mexico as part of efforts to expand its influence in
01:13Latin America,
01:14shortly after the Mercosur Pact entered into force.
01:17Mexican President Claudia Sheenbaum was joined by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen
01:23and European Council President Antonio Costa for a summit in Mexico City to sign the deal.
01:29The goal here is simple.
01:31We want to create even more jobs and value on both sides.
01:37With swift ratification, tariffs on virtually all Mexican agri-food exports to Europe will disappear.
01:47Imagine the opportunities.
01:50European companies, drawn by Mexico's talent and dynamism,
01:56already support more than 5 million jobs here, and there is much more to come.
02:01The economic partnership reflects efforts on both sides to reduce their dependence on the U.S. and on China.
02:08The deal strengthens the EU's diversification strategy by updating a 20-year-old agreement
02:13that had already eliminated tariff barriers on bilateral trade.
02:21Two young French boys aged 4 and 5 were rescued in Portugal this week
02:26after they had been abandoned on the side of the road by their mother,
02:29with nothing but backpacks containing some food and water.
02:32They were found by a local passerby who took them to a bakery run by his family.
02:53The family took the children in, providing shelter, food and toys for them to play with.
02:58They had reportedly explained how their mother had left them in a wooded area.
03:14Police later took the children to a nearby hospital in the city of Stubal.
03:18They are currently in a foster family and in good health.
03:22Following a manhunt, their mother was found and arrested on Thursday
03:25on suspicion of abuse, endangerment and abandonment.
03:28Their stepfather, known to French authorities and with a prior conviction for domestic violence,
03:33was also arrested.
03:35An investigation has also been opened in France,
03:37where the mother's disappearance was already under investigation.
03:46People set fire to an Ebola hospital in the Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo
03:52after relatives of a young man thought to have died from the virus
03:57were not allowed to take his body away for burial.
04:00Medical staff at Ramparo Hospital refused on the grounds that the body was highly contagious
04:06and would have to be buried under a special protocol.
04:09A health care worker was injured by a stone thrown by protesters before law enforcement intervened.
04:16The parents of the victim believed that he had died from typhoid rather than Ebola
04:21and that burying him would not have posed a risk.
04:24The attack reflects challenges authorities face while trying to curb the virus
04:28by using measures that might clash with local customs, such as burial rights.
04:33Ramparo Hospital Laisnebunia, the epicentre of the Ebola outbreak,
04:38which has reportedly killed more than 130 people so far.
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