A round-up of today's other stories in brief
33 trapped miners alive after 17 days
SANTIAGO – Thirty-three miners trapped underground in Chile for 17 days after a cave-in have been located.
They tied a message to a drill saying they were alive, a member of the rescue mission told state television yesterday.
“There was a note that said there are 33 workers alive down here,” said the rescue worker, who was not identified. – (Reuters)
Most French prefer leftist for 2012 election
PARIS – More than half of France’s voters would prefer a candidate from the political left to conservative president Nicolas Sarkozy in the 2012 election, a survey showed yesterday.
The survey, to be published by Libération newspaper today, said 55 per cent preferred either Dominique Strauss-Kahn, head of the International Monetary Fund and a favourite of the centre-left, or Socialist Party leader Martine Aubry to any from the right. Forty-four per cent said they preferred Mr Strauss-Kahn as president, while 24 per cent said Mr Sarkozy. – (Reuters)
Vocal critic of Putin detained
MOSCOW – Police detained opposition politician Boris Nemtsov, a vocal critic of prime minister Vladimir Putin, when demonstrators tried to march in Moscow without authority yesterday.
Mr Nemtsov, a deputy prime minister under Boris Yeltsin, has been detained several times as his criticism of the Kremlin has sharpened. – (Reuters)