The Cost of China’s Determination in Hong Kong – The Atlantic

Health officials who have been trying to project the path of the epidemic are armed with incomplete information and facing a moving target.

Global Affairs Canada is reforming its bureaucratic system for funding foreign-aid initiatives in a bid to approve funding requests faster and eliminate multiple layers of red tape. Charities say Canada’s international aid system is notoriously cumbersome. The system provides more than $6.5 billion a year in development aid for everything from education and climate-change adaptation […]

The U.S National Transportation Safety Board, in a preliminary report on the Feb. 3 train derailment in eastern Ohio, said on Thursday its investigation will focus on the response to the accident, including venting and burning of vinyl chloride, as well as other rail car design and company inspection issues. The agency said it will […]