DETROIT — Canada’s two largest railroads are starting to shut down their shipping networks as a labor dispute with the Teamsters union threatens to cause lockouts or strikes that would disrupt cross-border trade with the U.S. Both the Canadian Pacific Kansas City and Canadian National railroads, which haul millions of tons of freight across the border, have stopped taking certain ...
Seven members of the same family were killed in an Israeli airstrike in central Gaza on Sunday, medical officials said, as Secretary of State Antony Blinken travels to Israel to push for a ceasefire and hostage deal. At least seven people were killed, including six children and their mother, in an Israeli airstrike on a home in Deir al-Balah on Sunday, according to the ...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said that Ukraine is “getting stronger” in Kursk, with his troops blowing up a second bridge in the Russian territory on Sunday. Fighting continues in the Kursk region, where Ukraine has been inching forward since launching its surprise cross-border incursion last week. But Ukraine remains under pressure its occupied east. The Kursk offensive has left ...
Israeli police are investigating an explosion that killed a person in Tel Aviv on Sunday evening. The person who died is believed to have been carrying the explosive material, District Commander Peretz Amar said. Police have not yet identified the person. A second person was moderately injured after being hit in the lower body by shrapnel and was taken to ...
“What are your parents’ names?” Fang, then a third grader, hemmed and hawed at the simple question as her teacher waited impatiently, unaware the 9-year-old was caught in a dilemma. Since preschool, Fang had been officially registered as the daughter of her eldest uncle – an attempt by her birth parents to circumvent harsh penalties for having a second baby ...
A former Soviet aircraft carrier burned in a waterway near Shanghai over the weekend, the latest setback for the decommissioned warship since its conversion into a Chinese tourist attraction. The carrier Minsk, which has been anchored for the past eight years in a lagoon near the Yangtze River in Nantong, Jiangsu province, caught fire during renovations for it to become part ...
At the mouth of the Motagua, Guatemala’s longest river, 40 million pounds (18 million kilograms) of trash pours into the ocean each year. It is one of the most polluted rivers in Central America, winding 302 miles (486 kilometers) through Guatemala before flowing into the Gulf of Honduras and, ultimately, the Caribbean Sea. By some estimates, the trash carried downstream ...
One body has been recovered and six people are missing, according to Italian authorities, after a luxury yacht sank off the coast of Sicily. A tornado hit the vessel around 5 a.m. Monday, according to a spokesperson for Italy’s Coast Guard. The yacht was anchored about a half a mile from the port of Porticello on the Mediterranean island. Fifteen ...
The European Space Agency’s Juice craft will return to Earth tonight, taking part in a “world first” fly-by. Flight controllers will guide the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice), with UK-made scientific instruments on board, past the moon and then Earth. The risky manoeuvre will take Juice on a shortcut to Jupiter via Venus, using the moon’s gravity and then Earth’s, ...
A blue supermoon will appear on the horizon tonight, kicking off a series of astronomical events. Supermoons occur when a full moon rises during its closest point in its orbit to Earth. A blue moon happens when there are two full moons within a single calendar month or four full moons within a season. They’re fairly rare – hence the ...