The mining minister in Chile says all is going well in the efforts to bring to the surface 33 miners who have been trapped deep underground for more than two months. James Menendez reports from the scene.
The mining minister told a packed news conference the work to install a metal casing in the rescue shaft began early on Sunday and should be finished by around nine o'clock on Monday morning local time. He said that so far, three sections had been lowered into the tunnel. The top 15% of the shaft needs to be lined in order to make sure that a rescue capsule that will be used to raise the miners to the surface can run smoothly. After the casing is complete, testing will then begin on the capsule itself. That could take up to two days, meaning that the rescue may not start until Wednesday.
A United Nations official in Zimbabwe has called for urgent action to support the country's healthcare system, saying 100 children are dying there every day, mostly from preventable causes. Peter Salama of the UN children's agency Unicef said Zimbabwe urgently needed hundreds of millions of dollars invested in its health system.
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The wife of the Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo has met her jailed husband for the first time since he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday. They met on Sunday afternoon in a prison in northeastern China. He is reported to have dedicated the award to those, he said, were martyred during the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.