French train workers began striking against labor reforms on April 2, with strikes scheduled to occur two days out of every five for three months. It was expected that only trains operating between stations in France would have service interrupted, with international train service being mostly unaffected.

The strikes were announced after France’s president, Emmanuel Macron, proposed to sign new hires in many public sectors to different contracts with fewer benefits. Many other...

The US Department of State posts up-to-date travel advisories on every country and many territories, ranking each 1 (Exercise normal precautions), 2 (Exercise increased caution), 3 (Reconsider travel) or 4 (Do not travel). Note: A country’s regions are also ranked and may have different rankings than the country as a whole. Visit travel.state.gov and click on “Travel Advisories” at the top of the page.

A Saratov Airlines plane carrying 65 passengers and six crew crashed soon after takeoff from Moscow’s Domodedovo Airport on Feb. 11, killing everyone on board. It was en route to the city of Orsk, just north of the Kazakhstan border. 

The plane was a Russian-made twin-engine Antonov An-180. Frozen-over speed sensors are suspected to have given incorrect readings, leading to the accident, with investigations ongoing as of press time. 

Worldwide, the crash was the...