On Wednesday, Google terminated 28 employees, as revealed in an internal memo seen by CNBC. The terminations followed a string of protests concerning labor conditions and Google's contract to supply cloud computing and artificial intelligence services to the Israeli government and military.
In July, following a directive from the Taliban administration in Afghanistan, which stated that all women's beauty salons must shut down within a month, videos surfaced on social media depicting women's protests both in the streets of Kabul and within their homes. These demonstrations, often accompanied by signs proclaiming "Bread, justice, work," were responses to the Taliban's actions since their takeover of Kabul on August 15, 2021.