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☆ Nike urged to backpay garment workers ahead of annual meeting
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-11 | by ( Katherine Masters | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

The investors want Nike to provide $2.2 million in allegedly unpaid wages to more than 4,000 workers at two suppliers in Cambodia and Thailand. The investor request could add more pressure to sportswear giant Nike (NKE.N), which is set to hold its annual shareholder meeting on Tuesday. Before the factory's closure in July 2020, Violet Apparel was owned by global textile manufacturer and Nike supplier Ramatex, according to WRC. WRC alleges that Violet Apparel made clothing for Nike as a subcontractor until 2020, citing what it said was testimony from factory workers and photographs taken inside the factory. Nike said it found "no evidence to support the claims" that Violet Apparel made Nike items after 2006.

Persons: John Donahoe, Kees Gootjes, Violet Apparel, Violet, Katherine Masters, Josie Kao Organizations: Nike, Reuters, Canadian, ABN AMRO, Washington, D.C, Workers Rights Consortium, Violet, Violet Apparel, Ramatex, WRC, Apparel, Hong Seng, Thomson Locations: Cambodia, Thailand

☆ Alfa Romeo will stay in motorsport, yet to decide on F1
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-01 | by ( Alan Baldwin | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

"I feel that I must stay in motorsport and I will stay in motorsport. We don’t want to be full (in) for Alfa Romeo. I will not go to Rally Raid and I will not go on WRC (world rally) for obvious reasons for the story of Alfa Romeo. Alfa are effectively title sponsors of Sauber, who run the team, under a deal driven by the late FIAT Chrysler boss Sergio Marchionne. "It was reasonable, it was sized at the height of Alfa Romeo and Sauber, it was not the dreaming contract.

Persons: Max Verstappen, Jennifer Lorenzini, Romeo, Jean, Philippe Imparato, Imparato, Alfa Romeo, Haas, Ferrari, Sergio Marchionne, Alan Baldwin, Toby Davis Organizations: Prix, Autodromo Nazionale Monza, Prix REUTERS, One, Sauber, Frenchman, Reuters, Audi, Volkswagen, Alfa, WRC, Maserati, FIAT Chrysler, FIA, Formula One Management, Netflix, Vegas, Motorsport, Thomson Locations: Monza, Italy, United States

☆ Images from the Solar Orbiter spacecraft reveal tiny flares shooting from a 'hole' in the sun. They could explain how the sun blasts Earth with charged particles.
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-26 | by ( Morgan Mcfall-Johnsen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

AdvertisementAdvertisementPicoflares could be the source of the solar wind that's blasting EarthAn animation of the solar wind shows particles streaming from the sun towards Earth. That stream, called the "solar wind," gets supercharged when coronal holes or big solar flares are pointed at our planet. Seeing the sun up close, at smaller scales, could reveal its secretsImages from the Solar Orbiter are the closest ever taken of the sun. "Jets, in general, have previously been observed in the solar corona," Chitta, who led the Solar Orbiter study and a team at Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, told Space.com. NASA/SDONASA and the ESA launched Solar Orbiter in 2020, with a goal of studying these winds at their source.

Persons: Lakshmi Pradeep Chitta, NASA's Parker, Chitta, Space.com, it's, Andrei Zhukov Organizations: Service, Orbiter, Solar Orbiter, NASA Solar Dynamics, NASA, Lights, EUI Team, ESA, CSL, MPS, UCL, Probe, Jets, Solar, Max Planck Institute, Solar System Research, European Space Agency, Royal Observatory of Locations: Wall, Silicon, Royal Observatory of Belgium, Brussels

☆ Jim Cramer's top 10 things to watch in the stock market Tuesday: First Republic, Nvidia, Meta
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-21 | by ( Jim Cramer | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Big day for Club holding Nvidia (NVDA). Citi sees Club holding Amazon (AMZN) becoming more profitable as the scope of job cuts comes into focus. Morgan Stanley looks at the Financial Times report that Club holding Microsoft (MSFT) plans to launch an app store for mobile games. Club holding Emerson Electric (EMR) upgraded to overweight from equal weight (buy from hold) at Morgan Stanley. As a subscriber to the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer, you will receive a trade alert before Jim makes a trade.

☆ Water’s big moment risks getting lost in the weeds
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-20 | by ( Antony Currie | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +6 min

The latest is research published last Thursday by the Global Commission on the Economics of Water. The sum, though, is just $140 million, and the U.S. government’s International Development Finance Corporation is pouring in three-quarter of the proceeds. But there is a decent investment case for water without state or supranational support. Without them, water’s big moment risks getting lost in the weeds. Follow @AntonyMCurrie on TwitterCONTEXT NEWSThe United Nations 2023 Water Conference starts on March 22, World Water Day, in New York.

☆ Outrage mounts in D.C. after man fatally shoots boy, 13, he suspected was breaking into cars
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-10 | by ( Marlene Lenthang | Marlene Lenthang Is A Breaking News Reporter For Nbc News Digital. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +5 min

Outrage is simmering over the fatal shooting of a 13-year-old Black middle school student in Washington, D.C., by a man who suspected the teen was breaking into cars in his neighborhood. Members of the District of Columbia Department of Forensic Sciences investigate the crime scene of a shooting in Washington, D.C. via WRCDetectives are working with the U.S. Attorney's Office to determine any potential criminal charges. "Although he loved his neighborhood, he loved Brookland MS (the faculty & his peers) and the structure it presented to him even more,” Richardson wrote. Community groups DC Safety Squad, Ward 5 Mutual Aid and Harriet’s Wildest Dreams are demanding the release of the shooter's name and any visual evidence. In a statement, DC Safety squad said: “Karon Blake was senselessly murdered.

☆ Kayakers hailed as heroes for rescuing pilot from icy creek after plane crash
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-26 | by ( Antonio Planas | Antonio Planas Is A Breaking News Reporter For Nbc News Digital. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

Quick-thinking kayakers are being hailed as heroes after helping rescue a pilot whose single-engine plane crashed Monday morning into an icy creek in Maryland, authorities said. The aircraft plummeted into Beards Creek in Edgewater near the Lee Airport shortly before 10:30 a.m., according to Maryland State Police. While the plane was sinking, the pilot exited his plane and stood on the wing. A small plane crashed into an icy creek in Maryland on Monday. WRC/WBALShortly after, personnel with the Maryland Department of Natural Resources arrived by boat, police said.

Three suspects are at large after a triple shooting Thursday morning at a Washington, D.C., train station — the second shooting on the busy rail system in less than 24 hours, officials said. The latest incident unfolded about 9 a.m. at the Benning Road station, which is on the Silver and Blue Lines of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority system, police said. The teen, who was hit in the thigh, had life-threatening injuries, according to NBC Washington. The 23-year-old office manager works a block away the Metro Center station, the scene of Wednesday night's fatal shooting. "There are a few of my co-workers that just missed the incident yesterday and the office is pretty empty today.

A Maryland homeowner found five adults dead inside the residence Friday, sheriff's officials said. Deputies from the Charles County Sheriff's office were called to the La Plata home after a shooting report, the agency tweeted shortly before 2 p.m. An aerial view of the home where police report the discovery of five bodies, in La Plata, Md., on Friday. Representatives of the sheriff's and county medical examiner's offices did not immediately respond to requests for comment. NBC Washington reported on-air that the home is in the Agricopia neighborhood in La Plata, which is about 35 miles south of Washington, D.C.

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Persons: Garrett, Crăciun ., Weber, Crăciun, colecţie Organizations: Lancia, Audi, internaţional, Garrett T3, Ferrari, Ford Sierra RS Locations: Torino, internaţional WRC, Montpellier, Marsilia

Ogier ocupa locul doi în clasamentul dinaintea raliului italian, devansat cu 14 puncte de Elfyn Evans, dar galezul a ieşit din cărţi după ieşirea în decor de sâmbătă. După ultimele trei probe speciale de duminică, în clasamentul final al Raliului Monza, Ogier a ocupat primul loc, fiind urmat de estonianul Ott Tanak (Toyota), campionul mondial en titre, la 13sec9/10 şi de spaniolul Dani Sordo (Hyundai) la 15sec3/10, citează Agerpres. În ierarhia finală a piloţilor, Ogier ocupă primul loc cu 122 puncte, urmat de Elfyn Evans 114, Ott Tanak 105, etc. În clasamentul constructorilor, Hyundai a câştigat titlul mondial cu 241 puncte, urmată de Toyota 236, M-Sport Ford 129 şi Hyundai 2C cu 8 puncte. Ogier s-a apropiat la două titluri de recordmanul absolut din WRC, francezul Sebastien Loeb, cu 9 succese mondiale.

Persons: Evans, Ogier, Sordo, Elfyn Evans, Toyota ., Sebastien Loeb Organizations: Toyota, Hyundai, Ford 129, Volkswagen, Ford, Toyota . Ogier Locations: Monza, titre, piloţilor, Elfyn

☆ Marca germană Volkswagen a decis să se retragă din competiţiile automobilistice
▼ + stars: | 2020-12-02 | by ( Publika.Md - Aici Sunt Știrile | ) www.publika.md time to read: +1 min

Marca germană Volkswagen, care a triumfat de-a lungul timpului în Raliul Dakar şi Campionatul Mondial de raliuri (WRC), a decis să se retragă din competiţiile automobilistice, informează cotidianul L'Equipe, citat de agerpres.ro. Responsabili Volkswagen au decis să îşi îndrepte toate eforturile către mobilitatea electrică, pentru ca grupul german să îşi poată reface blazonul după scandalul Dieselgate, generat de manipularea datelor privind emisiile. Astfel, cei 169 de angajaţi ai Volkswagen Motosport, cu sediul la Hanovra, vor fi integraţi în activităţile industriale ale constructorului cu sediul la Wolfsburg, pentru a contribui la dezvoltarea gamei electrice a companiei. Această echipă, condusă în acest moment de belgianul Sven Smeets şi de francezul François-Xavier Demaison în plan tehnic, a câştigat totul pe unde a trecut, cu trei victorii în Raliul Dakar, între 2009 şi 2011, patru titluri mondiale în WRC, obţinute de Sebastien Ogier între 2013 şi 2016, precum şi trei coroane mondiale în Rallycross (2017, 2018, 2020). Audi, o altă marcă a grupului Volkswagen, a anunţat la rândul ei că va părăsi Formula E la finele anului 2021, pentru a se orienta către un proiect legat de vehiculele electrice în Raliul Dakar şi un prototip LMDH în anduranţă.

Persons: Sven Smeets, François, Xavier Organizations: Volkswagen, Audi Locations: Dakar, Hanovra, Wolfsburg, WRC, anduranţă

Responsabili Volkswagen au decis să îşi îndrepte toate eforturile către mobilitatea electrică, pentru ca grupul german să îşi poată reface blazonul după scandalul Dieselgate, generat de manipularea datelor privind emisiile. Astfel, cei 169 de angajaţi ai Volkswagen Motosport, cu sediul la Hanovra, vor fi integraţi în activităţile industriale ale constructorului cu sediul la Wolfsburg, pentru a contribui la dezvoltarea gamei electrice a companiei. Această echipă, condusă în acest moment de belgianul Sven Smeets şi de francezul François-Xavier Demaison în plan tehnic, a câştigat totul pe unde a trecut, cu trei victorii în Raliul Dakar, între 2009 şi 2011, patru titluri mondiale în WRC, obţinute de Sebastien Ogier între 2013 şi 2016, precum şi trei coroane mondiale în Rallycross (2017, 2018, 2020). Audi, o altă marcă a grupului Volkswagen, a anunţat la rândul ei că va părăsi Formula E la finele anului 2021, pentru a se orienta către un proiect legat de vehiculele electrice în Raliul Dakar şi un prototip LMDH în anduranţă.

Persons: Sven Smeets, François, Xavier Organizations: Volkswagen, Audi Locations: Hanovra, Wolfsburg, Dakar, WRC, anduranţă

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