Iranians are running out of water and choking on some of the world's worst air pollution, environmental crises that critics say exemplify the failures fueling anger at the country's theocratic regime. "If I want to use one word, it's mismanagement," Hamid Pouran, an environmental technology researcher who studied in Iran and is now based in the United Kingdom, told DW. The country's most pressing environmental concern is a worst-in-decades drought, now in its sixth consecutive year.
The workers' union says that a recent high-profile heist at France's most visited museum has highlighted long-simmering reasons for employee discontent. Namely, mismanagement and a refusal to hire enough staff that a museum of the Louvre's size requires. The strike reportedly has broad support among the 2,200-strong staff of security guards, cashiers, and researchers. Alongside the robbery of $102 million (88 million) in jewels from the Apollo Gallery, two other recent incidents made it clear how much the building has fallen into disrepair.
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So far in Day 6 of in the removal hearings of San Mateo County Sheriff Christina Corpus, deputy Carlos Tapia, the head of the deputies' union, is testifying about his working relationship with Corpus and is expected to testify about his arrest that occurred hours before a county-commissioned report by retired Judge LaDoris Cordell came out. Cordell's report focused on Corpus and her former chief of staff, Victor Aenlle. The report said the two were more than friends and were running the sheriff's office through retaliation and intimidation.