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Dozens of suspects went on trial April 13 over modern Turkey's worst mining disaster that left 301 miners dead last year in the western town of Soma and tarnished the image of the government.

A resolution which gives the Labor Ministry the authority to make it necessary for mine companies to build safe rooms has been put into a workplace security package with the efforts of Turkey's opposition parties.

The definitive cause of death of a woman whose burned body was found in an olive grove in the western town of Manisa on Feb. 22 could not be defined during the initial autopsy as 90 percent of the body was burned, state-run Anadolu Agency has reported.

The burnt body of a woman was found in an olive grove in the western town of Manisa on Feb. 22.

The owner of the grove reportedly found the woman in an unused shanty house on his land at around 11 a.m. and called the police.

An investigation has been launched into the incident, as police officers collected evidence in the area.

The Turkish High Election Board (YSK) has fine-tuned the number of lawmakers to be elected from each province at the June 7 polls in accordance with updated population data, increasing the number of Istanbul deputies to be elected by Istanbul residents.

The mining company responsible for the operation of the disaster-struck mine in the Aegean coal capital of Soma, where 301 workers lost their lives in Turkey's worst mining accident last May, has obtained authorization to build a new plant in the northern province of Amasya, daily Cumhuriyet has reported.

A municipal inspector, who had himself carried by farmers in the Aegean province of Manisa as he was visiting a neighborhood to determine damage caused by snow, has been suspended, according to a statement released by the municipality.

Kolin İnşaat, the energy firm that felled around 6,000 olive trees in the Aegean village of Yırca last week for the construction of a planned coal power plant, laid off some 100 personnel after a Council of State decision halted the project.

Although its size might not have befit its name, the ancient city of Metropolis had all the architectural trappings of a key city.

One engineer and two technicians died in a labor accident in the western province of Manisa on June 26.

The accident occurred during maintenance work at a waste water pumping facility in a leather factory complex inside an industrial zone.