Railroad BNSF stresses safety but is still held back by longstanding industry issues, report finds
Freight railroad BNSF is generally striving to improve safety on a consistent basis, but that message doesn’t always reach ...
Ukraine first lady wants country’s kids to see themselves as ‘generation of winners’ not war victims
Ukraine’s first lady wants her country’s children to view themselves not as a generation enduring a grinding war, but rather as “a generation of winners.” On the sidelines ...
Maduro taps a hardline loyalist to oversee Venezuela’s police, raising fears of a further crackdown
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro on Tuesday appointed a ruling socialist party boss to oversee the country’s police forces ...
Japan prepares for powerful Typhoon Shanshan, affecting transportation and delivery services
Japan was preparing for powerful typhoon as it slowly approached the country’s southwest at a bicycle speed, threatening to ...
Palestinian officials say Israeli raids across occupied West Bank have killed 9
Israel launched raids across the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, where its forces killed at least nine Palestinians and sealed off the volatile city of Jenin, according to ...
Israel-Hamas war latest: Israeli forces kill 9 Palestinians in occupied West Bank, officials say
Palestinian health officials say Israeli forces killed nine Palestinians in two raids in the occupied West Bank, as the ...
Drying lakes and thirsty trees: In drought-hit Greece, water trucks are keeping crops alive
Six weeks before harvest, there’s no water left in the ground for farmer Dimitris Papadakis’ olive grove in northern Greece, ...
As the far right rises in eastern Germany, companies struggle to attract skilled foreign workers
When electrical engineer Preetam Gaikwad first moved to Jena in 2013, she was smitten by what the eastern German city had to ...
Having Orbán in charge of EU’s presidency raises key question: Is Hungary for or against the EU?
The European Union traditionally ends its summer slumber in the dying days of August with an informal meeting of its foreign ...
Pope Francis is visiting East Timor after a clergy abuse scandal, but will he address it?
When the Vatican acknowledged in 2022 that the Nobel Peace Prize-winning, East Timorese independence hero Bishop Carlos Ximenes Belo had sexually abused young boys, it ...
Dalai Lama returns to Indian headquarters after knee replacement surgery in the US
The Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, returned to the headquarters of the Tibetan government-in-exile in northern India on Wednesday after undergoing a knee ...
Having a family is expensive. Here’s what Harris and Trump have said about easing costs
The high cost of caring for children and the elderly has forced women out of the workforce, devastated family finances and left professional caretakers in low-wage jobs — all ...