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Bizarre incident of Mobile phone use

Lovejeet Alexander a year ago

Region: India

This real incident that happened in a local hospital in Bangalore. A four year old girl was admitted due to leg fracture. As it was an open fracture, she had to undergo an operation to stitch the protruding bone back in place. Though it was quite a minor operation, she was hooked on to a life support system, as a part of the process. The doctors had to input some data prior to the operation to suit different conditions. Thereafter, the operation proceeded. Half way through the proc... more

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Las Mayas: A Neighborhood in Hell

Alejandro López De Haro Jr. a year ago

Region: Venezuela

The Venezuelan newspaper El Universal has reported that more than 200 police officers have been deployed  to the Las Mayas slum in southern Caracas. This group of police officers has been sent to put an end to the hostilities that have been carried out by irregular armed groups in the area for the past week. The actions of these various gangs led to the complete halt of both food and public transportation to Las Mayas. Causing the residents of Las Mayas to mount a protest yesterday ... more

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Iran's Green Movement Spre...

  Government violence reduced number of street protests, but movement has become more difficult to control. By Behzad Yaghmaian (MR No 16, 13-Nov-09) The presidential election of June 12, which Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was declared to have won, gave birth to a grassroots movement that has been evolving politically, embracing broader segments of the population, discovering new methods... more

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