MEXICO CITY—A fiery highway crash involving a passenger van and a freight truck killed 26 people in northern Mexico on Sunday, authorities said. Prosecutors and police in the northern border state of Tamaulipas said the death toll was a preliminary count, apparently because of the sheer volume of the wreckage and the fire that consumed…

JOHANNESBURG—A crash between a passenger bus and a van armored to carry cash in the northern province of Limpopo, South Africa, has killed at least 20 people and injured 68, officials have reported. The two vehicles collided head-on along the N1 freeway in the Makhado area on Monday evening, according to paramedics who responded to…

KARACHI, Pakistan—A van fell into a water-filled ditch in Pakistan’s flood-hit south, killing 20 passengers—mostly women and children—and injuring 13 others overnight, police said Friday. The incident on a flood-weakened highway took place in Sindh Province on Indus Highway. The road had been dredged in several places to drain out floodwater, but has not been…

LONDON—Amazon.com Inc. said on Monday it will invest more than 1 billion euros ($974.8 million) over the next five years in electric vans, trucks, and low-emission package hubs across Europe, accelerating its drive to achieve net-zero carbon. The retailer said the investment was also aimed at spurring innovation across the transportation industry and encouraging more…

DERMOTT, Ark.—Five people were killed and five others injured after a large truck collided with a van belonging to school serving disabled adults in southeast Arkansas, authorities said. The crash happened Monday afternoon on U.S. 65 when the 15-passenger van failed to yield when crossing U.S. 65 in rural Chicot County and collided with a…

After a short trip in their self-converted van turned into three years on the road, and a once-in-a-lifetime journey to the southernmost tip of Argentina, a Utah couple decided to put down roots. They bought a piece of land in Utah and built their very own tiny cabin in the woods, just in time to…

SKOPJE, NORTH MACEDONIA—Police in North Macedonia have discovered 41 migrants, including five children, in a routine police check on the country’s main highway and arrested the van’s driver. Police said in a statement Saturday that their patrol stopped the van in front of a toll station late Friday near the central town of Negotino. In…

LAHORE, Pakistan—A passenger train crashed into a college van carrying female students at an unmanned railway crossing in eastern Pakistan on Tuesday amid smog, killing three people and injuring seven others, police said. The accident happened in the district of Sheikhupura in the Punjab province, according to Rana Shakeel, a senior district administration official. He…

AUBURN, Ala.—A remembrance is set for eight young people killed when a van returning to an Alabama girls home after a week at the beach wrecked in a fiery crash during a tropical storm last month. The victims of the 17-vehicle accident, which also killed two other people in a separate car, will be remembered…

Police charged the driver of a van with six counts of vehicular homicide after the vehicle crashed and burst into flames on Interstate 85 in Georgia, killing six passengers. In a statement, Gwinnett County police said that Monica Elizabeth Manire, 32, made a “reckless change of lanes” on Interstate 85 to Interstate 985, which caused the van…