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News
Trump’s Cellphone
Diplomacy Raises Security
Concerns
WASHINGTON (AP) — President
Donald Trump has been handing out
his cellphone number to world leaders
and urging them to call him directly, an
unusual invitation that breaks diplo-
matic protocol and is raising concerns
about the security and secrecy of the
U.S. commander in chief ’s communica-
tions.
Trump has urged leaders of Canada
and Mexico to reach him on his cell-
phone, according to former and cur-
rent U.S. offi cials with direct knowledge
of the practice. Of the two, only Canadi-
an Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has
taken advantage of the off er so far, the
offi cials said.
Trump also exchanged numbers with
French President Emmanuel Macron
when the two spoke immediately fol-
lowing Macron’s victory earlier this
month, according to a French offi cial,
who would not comment on whether
Macron intended to use the line.
All the offi cials demanded anonym-
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World News
Briefs
pline of diplomacy have been a rough
fi t for Trump — who, before taking
offi ce, was long easily accessible by
cellphone and viewed himself as free-
wheeling, impulsive dealmaker.
Arrested, Missing China
Activists Spark Criticism
of Trump
In this March 24, 2017, fi le photo President Donald
Trump speaksin the Oval Offi ce of the White House
in Washington. Trump has been handing out his
cellphone number to world leaders and urging
them to call him directly, an unusual invitation
that breaks diplomatic protocol and is raising
concerns about the security and secrecy of the U.S.
commander in chief’s communications.
ity. Neither the White House nor
Trudeau’s offi ce responded to requests
for comment.
The notion of world leaders calling
each other up via cellphone may seem
unremarkable in the modern, mobile
world. But in the diplomatic arena,
where leader-to-leader calls are highly
orchestrated aff airs, it is another nota-
ble breach of protocol for a president
who has expressed distrust of offi cial
channels. The formalities and disci-
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SHANGHAI (AP) — The arrest and
disappearance of three labor activ-
ists investigating a Chinese company
that produces Ivanka Trump-branded
shoes in China prompted a call for her
brand to cease working with the suppli-
er and raised questions about whether
the fi rst family’s commercial interests
would muddy U.S. leadership on hu-
man rights.
The men were working with a U.S.
nonprofi t to publish a report next
month alleging low pay, excessive over-
time and possible misuse of student
labor, according to China Labor Watch
executive director Li Qiang, who lost
contact with the investigators over the
weekend. China Labor Watch has been
exposing poor working conditions at
suppliers to some of the world’s best-
known companies for nearly two de-
cades, but Li said his work has never
before attracted this level of scrutiny
from China’s state security apparatus.
Faced with rising labor unrest and a
slowing economy, Beijing has taken a
stern approach to activism in southern
China’s manufacturing belt and to hu-
man rights advocates generally, spark-
ing a wave of critical reports about
disappearances, public confessions,
forced repatriation and torture.
China Labor Watch’s investigation
also had an unusual target: a brand
owned by the daughter of the president
of the United States.
“Ivanka’s brand should immediately
cease its work with this supplier, and
the Trump administration should re-
verse its current course and confront
China on its human rights abuses,”
Adrienne Watson, spokeswoman for
the Democratic National Committee,
said in a Wednesday email. Ivanka
Trump must decide, “whether she can
ignore the Chinese government’s ap-
parent attempt to silence an investiga-
tion into those worker abuses.”
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Nest Labs is
adding Google’s facial recognition tech-
nology to a high-resolution home-secu-
rity camera, off ering a glimpse of a fu-
ture in which increasingly intelligent,
internet-connected computers can see
and understand what’s going on in peo-
ple’s homes.
The Nest Cam IQ will be Nest’s fi rst de-
vice to draw upon the same human-like
skills that Google has been program-
ming into its computers — for instance,
to identify people in images. Facebook
deploys similar technology to recog-
nize and recommend tags of people.
The new camera will set you back al-
most $300, and you’ll also have to pay
$10 a month for a plan that includes fa-
cial recognition technology. The same
plan will also include other features,
such as alerts generated by particular
sounds — barking dogs, say — that oc-
cur out of the camera’s visual range.
The camera will only identify peo-
ple you select. You could program the
device to recognize a child, friend or
neighbor, aft er which it will send you
a notifi cations about that person being
in the home. It won’t try to recognize
anyone that an owner hasn’t tagged.
NBC’s Megyn Kelly
Newsmagazine Features
Putin in Debut
NEW YORK (AP) — Megyn Kelly’s
debut on NBC News this weekend is a
real-life cliff hanger involving Russian
President Vladimir Putin.
Kelly is in Russia to question Putin
onstage Friday at the St. Petersburg
International Economic Forum. She’d
love a one-on-one exclusive interview
that would be featured on the fi rst
episode of NBC’s “Sunday Night with
Megyn Kelly,” but it’s not clear if that
will happen.
The centerpiece of the multi-topic
newsmagazine each week will be news-
maker interviews with Kelly.
The show will compete with CBS’ “60
Minutes” and air until the NFL season
starts.
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