Nederländerna och Ryssland i diplomatbråk
Wopke Hoekstra. Stephanie Reynolds/AP
Netherlands and Russia in diplomatic row
The Netherlands expels several Russian diplomats and closes both the consulate in St. Petersburg and the Russian Chamber of Commerce in Amsterdam, reports AFP.
- Russia continues to try to get intelligence agents into the Netherlands under diplomatic cover. We cannot and will not allow that, says Foreign Minister Wopke Hoekstra.
He also accuses Russia of not issuing visas to staff at the Dutch consulate and embassy in Moscow.
According to state media, the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs states that it will respond to the move, but does not specify how.
Macron. Sven Hoppe / AP
The Russian invasion. The outside world's response
Macron: Don't want Russia to be crushed
The French president wants Russia to be defeated - but not for the country to be "crushed", he says in a recent interview according to AFP.
- In the end, I don't think this will end with military means, says the president about the war.
He adds that while he wants Russia defeated in Ukraine, he does not want to see the war spill over onto Russian soil.
France is prepared for a prolonged conflict, says Macron.
Image from the derailment. Gene J. Puskar / AP
The train clock tracking in Ohio
The railroad lobbied against safety regulations before Ohio
Three months before the train clock derailment and the chemical leak in the US Ohio, Alan Shaw, CEO of the train company Norfolk Southern, met with Transport Minister Pete Buttigieg.
According to a memo from a Transportation Department attorney, Shaw had a secret purpose for the meeting — to lobby against a bill requiring freight trains to have two crew members, the Washington Post reports.
The proposal is motivated by the fact that it would lead to a better response capacity in the event of derailments and other accidents, but the train industry has resisted.
Norfolk Southern presents itself as a safe and green transportation company - but according to union leaders and federal government officials, they are engaged behind the scenes in aggressively opposing new safety laws and looking for loopholes in existing ones, the newspaper writes.
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