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Apr 16 2023
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Texas freight train collision injures 2, no hazmat onboard
A train collision and subsequent derailment injured two rail employees in Texas Sunday night, according to a company official. A Union Pacific freight train collided with an unoccupied train that was parked on a siding around 7 p.m. in Chico, Texas, Union Pacific spokesperson Kristen South, said in an email to The Associated Press. A locomotive engineer and conductor were being treated for
Midland Reporter TelegramApr 16 2023
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Texas freight train collision injures 2, no hazmat onboard
A train collision and subsequent derailment injured two rail employees in Texas Sunday night, according to a company official. A Union Pacific freight train collided with an unoccupied train that was parked on a siding around 7 p.m. in Chico, Texas, Union Pacific spokesperson Kristen South, said in an email to The Associated Press. A locomotive engineer and conductor were being treated for
Washington PostJun 21 2021
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Biden administration slaps sanctions on Belarus after it forcibly diverted passenger jet to arrest opposition journalist
The Biden administration slapped a slew of sanctions against Belarus on Monday amid Western fury over the forced diversion of a Ryanair flight to arrest an opposition journalist.
Last month, a passenger plane flying from Greece to Lithuania was suddenly diverted to Minsk, the capital of Belarus. The Ryanair flight was escorted to Minsk by a Soviet-era MiG-29 fighter jet. Upon landing,
CNBCApr 19 2023
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One-Third Of Canadian Government Employees Are On Strike, Causing Nationwide Headaches
More than one-third of Canadian federal employees went on strike as the nation’s public sector union failed to reach an agreement with government officials on wage increases. Some 155,000 members of the Public Service Alliance of Canada started to strike across the country on Wednesday, inducing fears of disrupted government services such as passports and tax services. The labor union
The Daily WireMar 22 2023
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Starbucks Workers Strike Ahead Of Shareholder Meeting
ARLINGTON, Va. ― Sam Dukore had some unfortunate news for the regulars at his Starbucks store in Arlington, Virginia, on Wednesday. The company’s union-busting had prompted workers to go on strike and shut down the store for the day, Dukore told them. The cafe in Arlington’s Court House neighborhood was one of more than 100 Starbucks stores around the country where workers took part in a one-
HuffPostApr 24 2023
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China tries to defuse EU diplomatic crisis after ambassador to France questions ex-Soviet republics’ sovereignty
China has walked back comments made by a senior diplomat that questioned the sovereignty of post-Soviet states, amid a spiralling diplomatic crisis.
Lu Shaye, Beijing’s ambassador in Paris, said in a TV interview last Friday that ex-Soviet republics had “no effective status” in international law, sparking angry responses from across Europe – led by the three Baltic countries that
South China Morning PostNov 11 2021
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‘We became like a chicken in a cage,’ a migrant says, trapped between Belarus and Poland.
Exhausted, freezing and exposed to the elements, Bayar Awat, his wife and infant daughter have been stuck on the Belarusian side of the Polish border for more than a week after leaving their homes in a desperate gambit to reach the European Union.
One of several thousand migrants from Iraq’s Kurdistan region at the Belarus border, Mr. Awat said that he knew Belarus was using migrants
New York Times (News)May 31 2023
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ACLU suing to block Nebraska measure that combines bans on abortion, gender surgery for minors
As promised, the American Civil Liberties Union is suing to block the Nebraska Legislature’s most controversial measure combining an abortion ban with restrictions on gender care for minors, just days after it was signed into law. The lawsuit, filed in state court Tuesday by the ACLU on behalf of Planned Parenthood and one of its doctors who performs abortions in Nebraska, argues that the law
Fox News (Online News)Jun 05 2023
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Surfliner, Metrolink service again halted through San Clemente, Calif.
SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. — The latest resumption of Pacific Surfliner and Metrolink service through south Orange County lasted barely a week. Passenger traffic through San Clemente was halted Monday morning after new debris was found along the rail right-of-way below the site of an earlier landside adjacent to the Casa Romantica Cultural Center, the San Diego Union-Tribune reports. A spokesman for
Trains.comMar 21 2023
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Los Angeles Schools Shut As Workers Stage Mass Walkout
More than 500,000 children were shut out of lessons Tuesday as school workers in Los Angeles began a three-day walkout over pay. Bus drivers, cafeteria workers and special education assistants employed by Los Angeles Unified School District -- the second biggest in the United States -- are striking over what they say are "poverty wages." The roughly 30,000 members of the powerful United
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