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Year: 2022

How company off-sites are changing business travel

By SAM KEMMIS of NerdWallet With fewer employees working in offices, several companies have begun turning toward off-site retreats and meetups to foster connection and improve employee morale. These off-site experiences are flipping traditional business travel on its head: Rather than emphasizing coworking, meetings and other work-centric itineraries, off-site retreats are often designed to encourage

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Pro-Russia media slam war setbacks as Putin predicts annexed Ukrainian regions will stabilize

By Lauren Said-Moorhouse, Mick Krever and Uliana Pavlova, CNN Russian President Vladimir Putin has said he expects the situation to stabilize in four war-torn regions of Ukraine after signing legislation to annex them on Wednesday, despite the fact that Russia’s military does not fully control those areas. While Russian state television hailed Putin’s inking of

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Crimean beauty queen fined by Russian authorities for singing patriotic Ukrainian song

By Olga Voitovych, CNN A Crimean beauty queen has been fined 40,000 Russian rubles (around $680) by occupying Russian authorities for singing the patriotic Ukrainian song “Chervona Kalyna,” according to Russian state media and pro-Russian regional authorities. Olga Valeeva, who was named Mrs Queen Beauty — Crimea 2022, was spared a jail sentence because she

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Long waiting lists, long drives and costly care hinder many kids’ access to mental health care

By Brenda Goodman, CNN The pandemic has been tough, but the return to in-person schooling has also been emotionally difficult for Mary Norris’ 12-year-old daughter. Norris says her daughter was bullied relentlessly at the school she attended last year in Fresno, California, near where her father lives. So she transferred to a school in Madera,

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