Amazon workers in India join Black Friday strike action for better wages and working conditions
Amazon staff in India have joined strike action calling for better wages and working conditions as the company prepares for ...
Donald Trump’s call for ‘energy dominance’ is likely to run into real-world limits
President-elect Donald Trump is set to create a National Energy Council that he says will establish American “energy ...
Santa’s annual train visit delivers hope and magic to one corner of coal country
Since 1943, the people of Appalachian Kentucky, Virginia, and Tennessee have looked forward to Santa's arrival. Not in a ...
Senior figure with Scholz’s ex-allies quits over ‘D-Day’ paper on German government collapse
A senior figure in the party whose departure from Chancellor Olaf Scholz's coalition three weeks ago put Germany on the road ...
Historic debate on legalizing assisted dying in England and Wales begins
British lawmakers started a historic debate Friday on a proposal to help terminally ill adults end their lives in England and ...
Syria insurgents push their advance toward 2nd largest city Aleppo
Thousands of Syrian insurgents pushed on with their advances on government-held areas in the country’s northwest, reaching ...
Notre Dame Cathedral is going to unveil its new interior, a watershed in its rebirth from fire
After more than five years of frenetic reconstruction work, Notre Dame Cathedral is going to unveil its new self to the world ...
Negotiators get closer to agreeing on a plastic pollution treaty
Negotiators working on a treaty to address the global crisis of plastic pollution inched closer to an agreement Friday, with ...
Halep dismayed at how Swiatek’s doping case was handled compared to her own
Simona Halep, the former Wimbledon and French Open champion tennis player, has expressed dismay at the way Iga Swiatek's doping case was handled compared to her own. Halep, a 33-year-old Romanian ...
Leicester interim coach unaware of Van Nistelrooy status as club deals with Christmas party fallout
Leicester’s interim coach says he is in the dark about reports of the imminent appointment of Ruud van Nistelrooy as the Premier League team’s next manager. British media are widely reporting that ...
Okonjo-Iweala given 2nd term as WTO chief as Trump’s return looms over trade body’s future
Member countries of the World Trade Organization agreed Friday to give Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala a second four-year term. The move by the Geneva-based trade body comes as ...
For some in Northeast DC, a water main break created chaos on Thanksgiving Day
DC Water reported that about 75 homes and 40 apartments in four buildings in the 1900 block of 2nd Street Northeast were without water Thanksgiving morning due to a water main break. And the repairs ...