LONDON (AP) — The Russian captain of a cargo ship that

No Azure for Apartheid, a group of current and former Microsoft employees, called on Friday for the company to publicly release a full copy of the investigative report.“It’s very clear that their intention with this statement is not to actually address their worker concerns, but rather to make a PR stunt to whitewash their image that has been tarnished by their relationship with the Israeli military,” said Hossam Nasr, a former Microsoft worker

after he helped organize an unauthorized vigil at the company’s headquarters for Palestinians killed in Gaza.Cindy Cohn, executive director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, applauded Microsoft Friday for taking a step toward transparency. But she said the statement raised many unanswered questions, including details about how Microsoft’s services and AI models were being used by the Israeli military on its own government servers.“I’m glad there’s a little bit of transparency here,” said Cohn, who has long called on U.S. tech giants to be more open about their military contracts. “But it is hard to square that with what’s actually happening on the ground.”

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for working with philanthropies, a list of supporters and funded coverage areas at“I don’t believe that President Xi (Jinping) with the strength of his leadership respects a weak and incompetent Australian prime minister,” Dutton said.

Dutton has accused Albanese of “self-censorship” in dealing with China. He described Albanese’s reaction to three Chinese warships virtually circumnavigating Australia in February in a show of China’s military reach as the “weakest, most limp-wristed response you could see from a leader.”Australia complained the Chinese gave insufficient notice of

off the Australian coast that forced commercial airline flights between Sydney and New Zealand to divert.Beijing responded that Australia had made