Electric Shock Injuries
Electric shock injuries are caused by lightning or electric current from a mechanical source passing through the body. Electric shocks cause about 1,000 deaths in the United St...
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Vice President Dick Cheney was back at work Tuesday after doctors administered an electrical shock to his heart and restored it to a normal rhythm after he experienced an irregular heartbeat."He fe...
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Canada will investigate allegations that Taliban prisoners captured by its forces in Afghanistan were abused by Afghan authorities, Canada's prime minister said Monday, after dozens of detainees to...
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Cairo (dpa) - Libyan President Muammar Gaddafi's son has admitted
that the Bulgarian medics accused of infecting hundreds of Libyan
children with the HIV virus were tortured...
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BOJ begins 1-day policy meeting, to issue outlook report
TOKYO - The Bank of Japan opened a one-day policy meeting
Wednesday, with market participants widely expecting no hike in...
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An Egyptian cleric allegedly kidnapped by CIA agents off the streets of an Italian city and taken to Egypt said Thursday he was tortured in an Egyptian prison and that he wants to return to Italy.O...
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A key witness in the trial of an ex-officer charged with torture during Argentina's military dictatorship has gone missing, officials said Thursday.It is the second time in three months that a witn...
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Russia's war-scarred Chechnya region continues to be plagued by torture and unlawful detentions, with human rights violations rarely investigated, a European anti-torture committee said Tuesday.The...
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Minsk (dpa) - Belarus' formidable Ministry of Internal Affairs
(MVD) is planning a training programme for law enforcers from
Vietnam, the Belapan news agency reported Tuesda...
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Tripoli/Sofia (dpa) - Libya's Supreme Court began proceedings
Wednesday in the appeal of a death sentence for five Bulgarian nurses
amid tight security precautions inside an...
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Electric Shock Injuries
Cheney back at work after doctors administered electrical shock to restore normal heart rhythm
