Category - Europe

Services on Greece’s national railway network are set to be disrupted Tuesday through Thursday due to a series of rolling three-hour stoppages called by unions. Delays and cancellations are expected to affect passengers using the Athens suburban railway (Proastiakos) and intercity trains, with stoppages taking place 5 a.m. to 8 a.m., 1 to 4 p.m. […]

A fire has broken out at the glitzy Ritz Carlton hotel in Paris that is undergoing renovation. Police have advised Parisians to avoid the area near the hotel, describing the fire as large in a tweet. “Firefighters are at the scene and working to contain the fire,” a police official told ABC News today. “It […]

MOSCOW, January 18. /TASS/. Russia’s flagship airline Aeroflot will cancel 31 international and domestic flights from Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport on January 18-19 as a heavy snowfall is expected in the region, the company’s press service said on Monday. The flights to Tel Aviv, Frankfurt, Berlin, Munich, Rome, Minsk, Almaty, Tallinn, Paris, Tivat (Montengero), Riga, Vienna, […]

Greek railway workers on Tuesday launched a series of walkouts that will affect the national rail network and the Proastiakos suburban railway that runs to Athens International Airport from the Doukissis Plakentias metro station. Workers, who are protesting plans to privatize rail company OSE, are holding rolling, three-hour strikes on Tuesday and Thursday, with the […]

UGICT-CGT, the largest of the two unions, has called for a strike on January 28 to protest the job cuts as well as the legal action taken against five employees involved in an October 5 attack on Air Franceofficials after the airline presented its restructuring plan. The union is also protesting the airline’s plans to spin […]

The Scottish Environmental Protection Agency (SEPA) have added two severe “danger to life” flood warnings for the Aberdeenshire towns of Inverurie and Kintore. Some evacuations have been advised. A SEPA spokeswoman said: “In particular in Inverurie we are forecasting the embankment will have overspill and it could really catch people by surprise. If it comes […]