U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg visits the site of the derailment of the Norfolk Southern train in East Palestine, Ohio, and holds a media availability at 11: 45 a.m. ET on Feb. 23, one day after former President Donald Trump’s visit. The Epoch Times will livestream his visit. …

KYIV, Ukraine—The chief editor of a popular Internet news site in one of Belarus’ largest cities was detained and his residence searched amid a crackdown on independent journalists and opponents of authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko. Police said Sunday they were investigating Hrodna.life editor Aliaksei Shota on suspicion of extremism. The publication focuses on Belarus’ fifth-largest…

ANKARA, Turkey—A metal monolith that mysteriously appeared and disappeared on a field in southeast Turkey turned out to be a publicity gimmick before a government event Tuesday during which Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced a space program for the country. The three-meter-high (about 10-foot-high) metal slab bearing an ancient Turkic script, was found Friday…

Flooding overnight threatened a key production site of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine in the UK as storm Christoph swelled rivers across the country. Local authorities in Wrexham, Wales, say they worked through the night, successfully holding off floods at an industrial site where the nationwide supply of the vaccine is put in vials. About 30 miles…