Train strikes school bus in Belgium; four dead, two injured

At a railway crossing in Belgium on a Tuesday morning, a train met a school minibus in a collision that claimed four lives, among them children — a moment that transforms an ordinary commute into a question about how well modern societies guard the most vulnerable at the intersections of their infrastructure. The minibus appears to have passed through a safety barrier meant to hold it back, leaving investigators to untangle whether the failure belonged to machine, to human judgment, or to both. In the aftermath, a nation pauses to ask whether the systems designed to separate the speed of rail