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A rail union has announced that Eurostar staff have voted overwhelmingly in favour of strike action following a ballot. Staff backed walkouts by 51 votes to three after the ballot closed yesterday, following a dispute over lone working, and what the Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT) describes as ‘victimisation’ of one individual member of […]

A 21-year-old woman living in Havana has become the first Cuban to contract the Zika virus having never been overseas. Cuba’s four previous cases all involved people who had caught the virus while in Venezuela. Zika, which is carried by mosquitoes, has been linked to thousands of birth defects in Brazil that is spreading through Latin […]

Easter Holiday plans for hundreds of thousands of air passengers could be affected as Australian Border Force and other Immigration Department officials threaten to walk off the job at airports and freight terminals around the country on Easter Thursday. The 24-hour strike, part of a continuing dispute over wages and conditions, will be preceded by […]

Via Rail confirmed Wednesday it is beefing up security in response to what it called an “unsubstantiated” threat. CBC News has learned the rail passenger service is bringing in the RCMP and sniffer dogs for an elevated police presence at some stations starting Wednesday, including at Toronto’s Union Station. “For some time now, passenger transportation companies globally […]

The hundreds of thousands of people who normally take Metro to school and work turned to cars, bicycles and buses Wednesday morning as the rail system shut down for an emergency inspection of 600 electrical cables, two days after one of them caused a fire that crippled the system. Thousands of drivers set out before […]