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Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont. AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana Senator Bernie Sanders blocked a Republican resolution to avert a rail strike and override workers. Republicans want Congress to step in and enact contract recommendations, even if workers don't agree. Sanders said that workers deserve paid sick leave, which is the demand holding up agreements. Sen. […]
A third summit between North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and South Korean President Moon Jae-in is planned for September. While the subject of denuclearization remains at the center of the negotiation table, Moon said plans to build a railway across the peninsula will kick off this year. Moon proposed an East Asian railroad community […]
Russian Railways has begun works on the electrification of a railway line in Iran, the company said. Read more The project – worth $ 1.2 billion – will electrify a railroad connecting the Iranian city of Garmsar near Tehran with Ince Burun near the border with Turkmenistan. The length of the Garmsar-Ince Burun railway line […]
The Canadian government worked in secret for months to help gay and bisexual men escape arrest and torture in Chechnya, it was revealed last week. Now, the organizations that made it happen have gone public, since most of the men fleeing have safely arrived. Twenty-two men have arrived in Canada under a program created by […]
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Thomson Reuters MOSCOW/RIGA (Reuters) – Russia’s state-owned railway monopoly is refusing most requests to take cargo from Russia to ports in Latvia, industry executives said, a serious blow to the Baltic state which depends on the transit trade. The monopoly, Russian Railways (RZhD), has in many cases offered no explanation to customers for turning down […]
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UVM In the years before the Civil War, as we were discussing the other day, the United States was transformed by the railroad and the telegraph. But to my knowledge, few senior military leaders sat down during the 1850s to look at how those changes might affect the conduct of a future war. Even George […]
Now that he made the most talked about — and arguably the best, and, after an infamous mixup, Best Picture-awarded — American film of 2016, Moonlight writer/director Barry Jenkins is actually turning to television. (“Turning to television” being, of course, a favorite prestigious directorial activity nowadays.) And said turn sounds quite compelling: he’s developing an adaptation of Colson […]
