Tag Archives: relief
Disney Cruises donates $1M to Dorian relief, addresses leaving 'some' crew in the Bahamas
Disney Cruise Line has weighed in on concerns about employees in the Bahamas amid Hurricane Dorian. The company is donating $ 1M to relief efforts.
Putin-Kim summit sends message to U.S. but sanctions relief elusive for North Korea
“When Kim meets Putin, he is going to ask for economic assistance and unilateral sanctions relaxation. Moscow is unlikely to grant his wishes,” said Artyom Lukin, a professor at Far Eastern Federal University in Vladivostok. “Being a veto-holding U.N. Security Council member, Moscow can hardly afford to undermine its authority even for the sake of friendship with Kim,” Lukin said.
Elizabeth Warren’s Student Loan Relief Would Lift Black, Latino Borrowers
Relief, and questions, in Norway after dramatic cruise rescue
Norway breathed a collective sigh of relief on Monday after the dramatic rescue of a stricken cruise ship off its coast, but questions mounted about why the vessel chose to sail into notoriously perilous waters in a storm. It was one of the biggest rescue operations in modern times, with almost 500 passengers, many of them elderly, airlifted off the ship through day and night by a relay of helicopters fighting heavy winds. “The risk to the passengers and the vessel was high,” Dag Sverre Liseth, director of the marine department at the Accident Investigations Board Norway, told AFP.
Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation may have concluded but Trump cannot breathe a sigh of relief just yet
Some sighs of relief in Washington as Trump returns empty handed from Kim summit
Trump said he walked away from a deal because of Kim’s demands to lift all U.S.-led sanctions on North Korea in return for the denuclearization of its Yongbyon atomic complex but not others that the United States knows about. In contrast, North Korea’s foreign minister said Pyongyang offered to dismantle Yongbyon in return for a partial lifting of sanctions as a step toward better relations between the nations, technically still at war because the 1950-53 Korean War ended in an armistice rather than a peace treaty. Before the summit, there were hints Washington was open to declaring an end to the war, some sanctions relief, and opening of liaison offices, a first step toward diplomatic ties, if the North reined in its nuclear program.
Shutdown stories: Federal workers say no relief in sight
“I don’t see an end in sight to this right now, and I don’t think there will be unless something major happens like a strike among the essential employees who are working without pay.”
Venezuela's Guaido Says Opposition Seeks Financing, Debt Relief
Trump 'tried to cut off' disaster relief money for Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria
Trump, California spar over money for wildfire relief funds
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — President Donald Trump threatened Wednesday to withhold money to help California cope with wildfires, a day after new Gov. Gavin Newsom asked him to double the federal investment in forest management.
