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Google fires 28 staff after protests against cloud contract with Israel

Google has accused protesting staff of engaging in 'unacceptable behaviour' [Terry Chea/AP Photo]

Google has fired 28 employees following a sit-down protest over the tech giant’s contract to provide cloud computing and artificial intelligence services to the Israeli government

The terminations come after the group No Tech for Apartheid on Tuesday occupied Google offices in California and New York to protest the $1.2bn contract known as Project Nimbus.

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