🗣 Hundreds of Google workers signed a petition demanding it stop collecting abortion search data from people

The Alphabet Workers' Union — a union for employees at Google's parent company Alphabet — circulated a petition that garnered over 650 signatures, the union said in a Twitter.

One of the petition's demand is that Google stop collecting data from users searching for abortion information. The AWU cited the case of a 17 year-old and her mother who were accused in June of obtaining an illegal abortion for the teenager, and whose Facebook data was given to law enforcement.

It also said Google must work to get rid of ads for "misleading 'pregnancy crisis centers." Bloomberg reported this week Google Maps frequently directs users searching for abortion clinics to pregnancy crisis centers instead.

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Pink Floyd founder Roger Waters has been added to the Ukrainian online blacklist Myrotvorets, "for an infringement of the territorial integrity of Ukraine."

Waters has gone on record as saying that the change of power in Ukraine in 2014 was effected by the US State Department - and under secretary of state, Victoria Nuland personally - which provoked Russia to retaliate. He also added that Biden is guilty of a serious crime by inciting a war in Ukraine

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⚡️ Erdogan plans to hold phone talks with Putin this week, situation at Zaporozhye NPP and Ukrainian crisis expected to be on agenda, source told Sputnik

Once Russia's special operation in Ukraine began, some western states called for Russia to be expelled from the World Trade Organization (WTO), which Russia joined 10 years ago.

However, Sergio Rossi, professor of macroeconomics and monetary economics at Switzerland's University of Fribourg, feels that Russia's exclusion from the WTO would have a negative effect not only on Russia, but also on other members of the group.

CHECK OUT: Is it possible to boot Russia out of the WTO, and what pitfalls would such a move involve?

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⚡️ Gas prices in Europe have exceeded $2,750 per 1,000 cubic meters for the first time since the beginning of March, growing by 8% - ICE

📹 Russia's MoD has published footage showing the combat operations of Ka-52 helicopters during the special operation in Ukraine

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⚡️ Russia's FSB has detained a Daesh* suicide bomber who had been plotting a terrorist attack against "one of India's ruling circles".

*terrorist organization banned in Russia

📹 Ukrainian forces shell area near Auchan store in Donetsk, Sputnik correspondent says

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🚂 German newspaper Die Welt cited a draft Bill which is planning to give cargo trains carrying coal, oil and gas right of way over passenger trains. The measure is being taken by German authorities because of the energy crisis, spreading throughout Europe.

Also in July, as part of the fight against the energy crisis and plans to abandon Russian gas, the German government passed a law authorizing coal-fired power plants, which had been mothballed for reasons of climate protection, to be brought back into use

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⚡️ Gas futures in Europe top $3,000 per 1,000 cubic meters first time since March - ICE

📹 Children at a Canadian school have been offered protein bars made from ground insects. Some of them have already tried crickets.

😄 Mom, don’t forget to put some flies in my lunchbox!

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⚡️ US wants to accuse China of a unilateral attempt to change the status quo regarding Taiwan and impose blocking sanctions against Beijing, Russian Security Council Secretary Patrushev says

⚡️ Putin, Uzbek president discuss preparation to SCO summit in September, Kremlin says

⚡️ There is reason to believe that US will default on foreign debt in the foreseeable future, Patrushev says

Watch: Russia's Msta-S Howitzers performing fire missions to destroy Ukrainian armored vehicles and fortified positions

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▪️ The US is preparing to deploy strategic forces near the Korean peninsula if the DPRK conducts another test of atomic weapons, Patrushev says;

▪️ The US policy is as damaging to Asia as it is to Europe since members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations are now being forced to buy wheat at prices several times higher than previously

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📹 People have come out onto the streets of Seoul to protest against large-scale exercises being conducted by the US and South Korea. The demonstrators are calling for an end to escalating hostilities with North Korea

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📌Russia's MoD issues its latest statements on the Ukraine crisis:

▪️ The Russian Aerospace Forces eliminated up to 30 nationalists near Poltavka in the Zaporozhye region, using a high-precision strike;

▪️ Up to 100 military personnel were destroyed by Russian strikes on the positions of Ukrainian troops and territorial defenses in the area of Zaytsevo, Artemovsk and Yakovlevka in the DPR;

▪️ Russian aviation destroyed eight control points of Ukrainian troops, and manpower and equipment in 142 districts were hit;

▪️ Russian air defenses destroyed eight HIMARS rockets in the air near Kakhovka in the Kherson region;

▪️ As part of the counter-battery struggle, two platoons of the Ukrainian MLRS "Grad" were taken out of action in the DPR by Russian forces;

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⚡️EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell doesn't support the idea of a complete ban on visas for Russians

⚡️ EU mulls military training for Ukrainian forces, Borrell says

⚡️⚡️ Russia's FSB says Ukrainian special services behind murder of daughter of Russian political philosopher Dugin