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Google Employees Protest Potential Complicity in Chinese Censorship

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08/17/2018

08/17/2018

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Google Employees Protest Potential Complicity in Chinese Censorship

Top News: Some 1,400 Google employees signed a document demanding transparency regarding the company’s reported decision to work in secret on a censored search engine to run in China, according to the New York Times.

“Currently we do not have the information required to make ethically-informed decisions about our work, our projects, and our employment,” they wrote.

The Vatican: Two days after the release of a report by a Pennsylvania grand jury unveiling the alleged sexual abuse over the course of 70 years of more than 1,000 children by more than 300 Catholic priests—many of whom were protected by bishops—the Vatican responded. “Those acts were betrayals of trust that robbed survivors of their dignity and their faith. The church must learn hard lessons from its past, and there should be accountability for both abusers and those who permitted abuse to occur,” Vatican spokesman Greg Burke said in a statement.

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AFRICA

•  Tanzania began arresting the residents of an entire village over destroyed water pipes.

•  The World Health Organization said it expected more Ebola cases in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where violence has kept aid workers from making their way to some affected areas.

•  Egypt sent aid to South Sudan in the wake of deadly rain and floods.

AMERICAS

•  U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is forming a new group that will coordinate the Trump administration’s rising political and economic pressure on Iran, in what he described as an effort to compel Tehran to halt decades of “violent and destabilizing behavior,” FP’s Robbie Gramer and Colum Lynch report.

•  U.S. President Donald Trump postponed by at least one year plans to hold a military parade, which could cost some $90 million, intended to “top” France’s Bastille Day festivities.

•  Colombian authorities are investigating the possibility that former Sen. Alberto Santofimio Botero and former Congressman Jairo Ortega might have helped drug kingpin Pablo Escobar assassinate late Justice Minister Rodrigo Lara.

ASIA

•  Imran Khan is set to be confirmed on Saturday by Pakistan's National Assembly as the country’s next prime minister.

•  The Chinese military is likely training to increase its ability to hit targets in the United States, according to a Pentagon report.

•  Three-time Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee passed away at 93.

EUROPE

•  Italy launched an investigation into the Morandi Bridge collapse, which killed 39 people earlier this week.

•  The British Parliament’s science and technology committee endorsed vaping as an alternative to smoking.

•  Polish President Andrzej Duda vetoed proposed changes to the way Poland elects politicians to the European Parliament.

MIDDLE EAST

•  A Turkish airstrike killed a Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) leader known as Zaki Shingali in Iraq’s Sinjar district.

•  A U.N. panel called for the release from detention of Bahraini human rights activist Nabeel Rajab.

•  Saudi Arabia said on Thursday that more than 1.6 million pilgrims have arrived in the country for this year’s hajj.

- By Benjamin Soloway

(Li Xin/AFP/Getty Images)

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