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By Al Jazeera Staff in Americas on October 13th, 2010
The first miner was pulled out of the gold and copper mine on Wednesday

Al Jazeera follows the last stage of the rescue of 33 trapped miners in Chile as they get hoisted to the surface one by one through a narrow rescue shaft which took months to drill.

The men have been trapped 600 metres underground after the upper galleries of the San Jose mine in the country's north collapsed on August 5.

01:25 GMT: Pinera says Chile is "not the same" as it was 70 days ago, when the mine collapsed. He praises Chileans across the "length and width" of the country. Behind him, the wheel that has helped raise the "Phoenix" capsule over the past 24 hours, an image that has become symbolic of the rescue, spins as the rescue workers are winched up to the surface.

By Teymoor Nabili in Middle East on February 11th, 2010

The "Intelligence Squared" debate series in the US held a live event at New York University this week, the motion being "THE US SHOULD STEP BACK FROM ITS SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP WITH ISRAEL.

You can follow the arguments in the transcript, but what's most interesting is the huge swing in perceptions that resulted from the debate.

The event format involves taking an opinion poll of the audience response to the motion before and after the debate. Here are the results:

Before the debate:
33% FOR
42% AGAINST
25% UNDECIDED 
  
After the debate:
49% FOR
47% AGAINST
4% UNDECIDED 
 

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