TAIPEI, Taiwan — Taiwan was struck Wednesday by its most powerful earthquake in a quarter of a century. At least nine people were killed and hundreds injured, buildings and highways damaged and train service interrupted. Taiwan is no stranger to powerful earthquakes yet their toll on the high-tech island’s 23 million residents has been relatively … Read more
MEXICO CITY — The Mexican government blamed a contractor Tuesday for a loose railway fitting that caused a train car to derail on the president’s pet project, a tourist rail route known as the Maya Train. The derailment on March 25 proved embarrassing for President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who views the $20 billion railway … Read more
ATHENS, Greece — A Greek opposition party Tuesday submitted a motion of no-confidence against the government, saying that it tried to cover up its responsibility over a deadly rail disaster last year that shocked Greece. The Socialist Pasok party challenged the government following a newspaper report suggesting that audio leaked to the news media of … Read more
ATHENS, Greece — Widespread strikes in Greece halted trains and ferries on Wednesday in protests timed to coincide with the anniversary of a deadly rail crash a year ago. Greece’s deadliest rail disaster killed 57 people when a passenger train slammed into an oncoming cargo train in the north. The tragedy shocked the country, with … Read more
PARIS — A man injured three people Saturday in a stabbing attack at the major Gare de Lyon train station in Paris, another nerve-rattling security incident in the Olympic host city before the Summer Games open in six months. Paris police said officers quickly detained the attacker who used a sharp weapon in the assault … Read more
PRAGUE — A fast train collided with a truck in eastern Czech Republic on Wednesday, killing one person and injuring at least 19 people, officials said. The Czech Railways said the driver of the train was killed and that the injured have been transported to nearby hospitals with no life threatening injuries. Police said there … Read more
TOKYO — Police arrested a woman who wielded a knife and injured four passengers inside a train that stopped at Tokyo’s electronic town of Akihabara late Wednesday, Japanese media reported. Police rushed to the scene after a report that a woman was brandishing a knife while the train stopped at the Akihabara station, where four … Read more
BEIJING — Two subway trains collided in heavy snow in Beijing, sending 515 people to the hospital, including 102 with broken bones, authorities said Friday. The accident occurred Thursday evening in Beijing’s mountainous west on an above-ground portion of the sprawling subway system’s Changping line. Slippery tracks prompted automatic braking on the leading train. A … Read more
Police say a high-speed train and a regional train were involved in an accident in southern Germany that left several people slightly injured ByThe Associated Press November 17, 2023, 10:12 AM BERLIN — A high-speed train and a regional train were involved in an accident in southern Germany on Friday that left several people slightly … Read more
KYIV, Ukraine — Russian forces targeted Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, as part of an overnight bombardment felt across the country, local officials said Saturday, while drones that Russian officials blamed on the Ukrainian military targeted areas around Moscow and the region of Smolensk. A ballistic missile was shot down as it approached the Ukrainian capital, said … Read more