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Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung called for restraint and an end to the violence.
At press time, some 363 workers had been rescued, but at least 200 remained unaccounted for and are feared trapped inside the mine.
The seasoned diplomat has criticized world powers for their disagreements on how to end the bloody Syrian civil war.
Vietnam has dispatched dozens of vessels to the disputed region after a Chinese oil rig moved into the area.
Last week, government officials in Rome said that 20,000 sea-faring migrants had arrived in Italy since January.
There are weekly reports of people infected with the potentially deadly virus in Saudi Arabia.
Defence Minister Muhammad Nasir Ahmed survived an attack by Al-Qaeda fighters on his convoy of vehicles in Shabwa.
Although the European Commission has insisted that the risk of deflation is low, the ECB has been more concerned.
She said that the US economy will end the year better than last year with GDP growth moving at a "somewhat faster pace" than 2013.
Protests began in November against a bid by the government to officially pardon former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, Yingluck’s brother, a former business magnate currently in exile in Dubai.