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An alleged al Qaeda-backed plot to derail a U.S. passenger train in Canada sought to exploit the vulnerabilities of railroads that have not gotten much attention from the American public.

Two men were arrested and charged with plotting a terrorist attack against a Canadian passenger train, police said Monday....

Investigators were searching for bodies in a mangled wreck Saturday, a day after two trains crashed and killed at least 98 people in eastern India, officials said.

Russians on Tuesday nervously returned to subway stations where two suicide bombers killed 39 people, lighting candles and leaving ...

Twenty-two people were killed and several dozen injured in a Russian train crash on Friday, Russian news agencies said, and one source suggested it could have been caused by a bomb.