Landslide causes train derailment in Italy; nine dead

Tuesday, April 13, 2010 At least nine people have died in northern Italy after a landslide caused the derailment of a passenger train. A further 25 people were injured, according to emergency services. The incident occurred earlier this morning near the border with Austria, in a mountainous region near Merano, a city around 300 kilometres

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International manhunt for alleged kidney harvester

Friday, February 1, 2008 While the involuntary harvesting of human kidneys may have been relegated to urban legend in the Western world, a raid in India has shown the practice is real and has triggered an international manhunt. On January 24, police raided a clinic in Gurgaon, a satellite city of Delhi with two million

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ACLU, EFF challenging US ‘secret’ court orders seeking Twitter data

Thursday, April 7, 2011 Late last month, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed objections to the United States Government’s ‘secret’ attempts to obtain Twitter account information relating to WikiLeaks. The ACLU and EFF cite First and Fourth amendment issues as overriding reasons to overturn government attempts to keep their

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