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Published: Tuesday 30 April 2013

>> Mexico’s Raramuri Indians used the Holy Week (last week of March) to pray for the expulsion of drug traffickers from their land in northern Mexico’s Chihuahua state. “These feast days are to tell them (drug traffickers operating in the Sierra Tarahumara region) that we will defend our land,” said Javier Avila, a defender of Indian rights.

>> Apple Inc now runs its largest US data centre in Maiden, North Carolina on renewable energy, with majority power from solar panels and fuel cells, said its chief financial officer.

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