Google launches fund that could donate $4M to ACLU, others

A man walks past a lit sign and balloons that were used for the unveiling of Google's new Canadian engineering headquarters in Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario on January 14, 2016. (REUTERS/Peter Power/File Photo)
Updated 30 January 2017
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Google launches fund that could donate $4M to ACLU, others

MOUNTAIN VIEW, California: Google has created a crisis fund that could raise up to $4 million for four immigrant rights organizations.
Google has confirmed a USA Today report that it is funding an initial $2 million for the fund that can be matched with up to $2 million in donations from employees. The money will go toward the American Civil Liberties Union, the Immigrant Legal Resource Center, the International Rescue Committee and the UN Human Rights Commission. 
Company executives are also donating separately to the effort.
Google says in a statement that it’s concerned about the impact President Donald Trump’s order to temporarily suspend immigration from seven Muslim majority nations will have on the company’s employees and their families.


China calls for ceasefire, diplomacy to end Middle East conflict

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China calls for ceasefire, diplomacy to end Middle East conflict

BEIJING: China called on Monday for a ceasefire and diplomatic talks to end the conflict in the Middle East as it stretched into a third day.
“The most urgent task is a cessation of military operations and preventing a spillover of conflict,” foreign ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning told a news conference, urging “a resolution through dialogue and negotiation.”
One Chinese citizen was killed in Tehran, she said, where Israel and the United States have been carrying out strikes in an operation that killed the Islamic republic’s supreme leader.