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A prominent journalist in Belarus has been found
hang
ed at his weekend home outside the city of Minsk. The body of Oleg Bebenin was discovered on Friday, and local investigators say it appears he took his own life. Mr Bebenin was the founder of an opposition website critical of President Lukashenko's government. An opposition figure questioned whether his death was suicide.
The miners who have been trapped underground in Chile for a month are being contacted by four Uruguayan survivors of a plane crash in the Andes who
endure
d extreme conditions for 72 days before being rescued.
Gideon Long now reports.
The four men came to the mine as a gesture of solidarity with the miners. They were rescued here in Chile after surviving an almost unimaginable ordeal. They were lost in the snow, at an altitude of over 3,000 metres and were forced to eat the flesh of their fellow passengers who had been killed in the crash. Their ordeal was turned into the 1993 Hollywood film Alive. While the Uruguayans talked to the miners' families, engineers continued to
burrow
into the mountain side to try to reach the trapped men. They have now drilled through 42 metres of rock but have 660 to go.
Armed robbers in Barbados have
set fire to
a clothing shop in the capital Bridgetown, killing six people who were inside. Police said two men with machetes