The opening of France’s Louvre museum in Paris was delayed until 0900 GMT on Monday as staff was meeting to decide whether to resume a strike started in December over pay and working conditions, museum employees said.
Staff on December 19 had voted to call off the strike until January 5.
During Lebanon’s civil war, the Commodore Hotel in western Beirut’s Hamra district became iconic among the foreign press corps. For many, it served as an unofficial newsroom where they could file dispatches even when communications systems were down elsewhere. Armed guards at the door provided some sense of
Russian drones struck infrastructure in the central Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih on Wednesday, forcing emergency power blackouts for more than 45,000 customers and disrupting heat supplies, military administration head Oleksandr Vilkul said. “Please fill up on water and charge your devices, if you have the chance. It’s
A construction crane fell on a passenger train in northeastern Thailand on Wednesday, killing at least four people, officials said. The crane, which was being used to construct an elevated highspeed railway, fell onto the moving train, which was traveling from Bangkok to Ubon Ratchathani province, causing the train to
The leaders of Denmark and the country’s territory of Greenland on Tuesday offered a united front against President Donald Trump’s calls for the United States to take over the strategic Arctic island on the eve of critical meetings in Washington on the matter. In perhaps their sharpest pushback
