Tag: reaches
Musk Email Reaches Italian Workers. It Did Not Go Well.
Trump Administration Employees at the Aviano Air Base who serve American forces got a familiar demand to list their achievements. Unions say Italy “is not the Wild West like the U.S.” By Emma Bubola Reporting from Rome Italian employees at the Aviano Air Base in northern Italy paused from flipping burgers, unloading trucks and restocking…
National Women’s Soccer League reaches $5 million settlement over 2021 abuse scandal
Becky Sullivan Three years after revelations about sexual coercion, racism and other abuse roiled the National Women’s Soccer League, prosecutors on Wednesday announced a settlement with the league to establish a $5 million victims’ fund and implement other reforms. In 2021, allegations began to burst into the public about years of abuse suffered by players…
As Putin reaches 25 years in power, has he ‘taken care of Russia’?
I will never forget New Year’s Eve 1999. I was working as a producer in the BBC’s Moscow bureau. Suddenly there was breaking news: Russia’s President Boris Yeltsin had stepped down. His decision to resign took everyone by surprise, including the British press corps in Moscow. When the news broke there was no correspondent in…
Sudan: first aid convoy reaches besieged Khartoum area since start of civil war
Deliveries of vital food and medical supplies will help 200,000 families, say aid groups and local volunteers An aid convoy has reached a besieged area of Khartoum for the first time since Sudan’s civil war broke out in April 2023, bringing food and medicines in a country where half of the people are at risk…