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A TRUCK driver was run over and killed by a van today as he was working on a picket line in southern Spain during a strike by hauliers protesting high fuel prices, police said. The incident occurred at the entrance to a wholesale market in Grenada this evening, a police official said.
Earlier today, a Portuguese driver was killed near Alcanena, north of Lisbon, as he tried to stop a lorry at a road block set up by the strikers, police said. Strikes launched yesterday by truckers in Spain, France and Portugal have caused mounting chaos, with food and fuel shortages and huge tailbacks on the Spanish-French border.
A woman trapped for nine days after last week’s earthquake in China was rescued Wednesday as officials report the official death toll has topped 41,000.
Pic courtesy of Will Palmer Lawmakers Say Contaminated Blood Thinner Illuminates Problems With Drug Supply
Under the cloud of contaminated heparin deaths, Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Andrew von Eschenbach received a rude welcome from Congress Tuesday, accused by Rep. John Dingell, D-Mich., of “carrying the water” for the Bush administration, “toe-dancing around the hard facts,” and making promises that turn out to be nothing more than “hooey.”
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