A European Union satellite mapping agency says 104 square kilometers (40 square miles) of land was burned northeast of Athens this week during a deadly wildfire that gutted scores of homes and prompted multiple countries to send assistance. The Copernicus …
When Turkish lender Denizbank paid more than $350 million for the building that houses its headquarters in April, the purchase cemented the bank’s place in Istanbul’s most expensive commercial district. Yet, almost as soon as the ink had dried on …
This post is part of a series sponsored by PCF Insurance Services. PCF Transportation Practice Leader, Tim Good, leads a discussion with Erika Wilson, Producer from Good’s Insurance, a PCF company, about the importance of the FMCSA Drug and Alcohol …
Shipping containers bound for Thailand allegedly filled with tons of hazardous industrial waste from Albania are now slated to return to Europe, after environmental groups sounded the alarm they were being illegally exported to Southeast Asia. An A.P. Moller-Maersk A/S …
Ernesto strengthened into a Category 2 hurricane as it plowed northward toward Bermuda, threatening to drench the British territory with heavy rain and unleash flash floods. The storm was 410 miles (660 kilometers) south-southwest of Bermuda according to an advisory …
The World Health Organization has declared that an outbreak of mpox, a viral infection that spreads through close contact, represents a global health emergency for the second time in two years. Here’s what that means. WHAT IS A GLOBAL HEALTH …
Changes in the mpox virus are just the latest challenge facing disease trackers trying to contain an outbreak of the virus that’s become a global health emergency. The surge of cases is centered in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a …
What’s in a name? Thousands of dollars, a lost job, denied insurance coverage and the possibility of a suspended law license for a Mississippi workers’ compensation attorney, apparently. It all has to do with injured workers – both named Dorothy …
A federal judge in Florida has temporarily blocked a U.S. Federal Trade Commission rule that would ban agreements commonly signed by workers not to join their employers’ rivals or launch competing businesses, becoming the second judge to rule that the …
Chevron Corp. is to pay Richmond City Council $550 million over 10 years, the city said in a statement, in a settlement that saw it drop a proposed ballot on a new tax on the oil major’s Richmond refinery. Richmond …
