Exclusionary practices that are harmful to competition. So the Justice Department has determined an antitrust response is necessary to benefit consumers. 11 u. S. States are also joining the lawsuit, which was filed on tuesday in the District Court in washington, d. C. The lawsuit accuses google of signing agreements with popular device makers like apple and samsung to secure default status for its Search Engine. As s a result of its anticompetitive conduct, justice Officials Say google has accounted for nearly 90 of all general Search Engine inquiries in the u. S. In recent years. The lawsuit also alleges google gives the dataa obbtainned froms Search Service for its advvertising business. Google denies the allegations, describing the lawsuit as deeply flawed, saying people use google because they choose to not because theyre forced to or because they cant find alteernatives. Analysts think there will be a prolonged court batttle over t companys business model. Google was fined about
Hundreds of people attended thursdays ceremony. Floyd died after a Police Officer pinned him to the ground and kneeled on his neck, despite floyds calls that he couldnt breathe. Everybody wants justice. We want justice for george. Hes going to get it. Hes going to get it. Elsewhere in the country, people continued to protest. Floyds brother joined more than a thousand demonstrators at a rally in new york city where they held up banners and repeatedly called flois name. Amid the protest, the state of virginia is removed the statue of confederate general robert e. Lee. The government says the statue was wrong then and is wrong now. And i believe that we learn more when we take that honest look at our past. We must do more than just talk about the future. We must take action. Northam says the statue of general robert e. Lee will be put in storage and that his government will work with the community to determine its future. The removal of confederate statues is a contentious issue. Some se
Violence towards women. And a question for many museums should former colonial powers return artefacts they took from the countries they once occupied . Hello and welcome to bbc news. Lets start in hong kong, where polls have just opened in local elections. The authorities have threatened to suspend voting if theres serious trouble, but pro democracy campaigners have told their supporters not to cause any disruption. This vote is the first to take place since protests and often violent clashes with police started back in june. So it will be a test of support for pro democracy and pro beijing candidates. The poll is for the lowest rung of government in the city. More than a thousand candidates are running, competing for more than a50 seats throughout the citys 18 districts. A number of seats currently held by pro beijing incumbents, are being contested by pro democracy candidates, butjoshua wong, one of the prominent protest leaders is banned from running, because he called for Self Det
Cars. Negotiations are also being held with the minister of communications. One month left until Arbaeen Hosseini , about 400,000 pilgrims confirmed their registration in the sama system. 64 are men. 35 36 the percentage of women and 16 under 18 years of this number, about 66 of the mehran border was selected for the exit disease of tehran province, with 21 of razavi khorasan, 10 of it, almost 80 of it, and fars, 6 of khuzestan, 4 of the provinces that had the most registrations in the 115th meeting of the central headquarters of arbain. People were asked to use private cars to reach the borders of the country, 44 percent said that they travel with their own private cars. This is a good number. Iraq also promised to reduce the cost of internet and calls in this country at the same time as arbaeen. Considerably the cost of the internet inside the thin he also stated that the cost of communication within iraq with iran will be reduced even in some cities in iraq and free, according to th
Japan. In addition to economic pledges, they agreed to push forward free island access. Japan maintains the islands are an inherent part of his territory. Moscow says the islands became part of russian territory result of the war. The issue is one of the main reasons a formal peace deal was never signed between the two countries. Translator we had frank and in depth discussions on the former japanese residents free visits to the islands, possible joint Economic Activities there, under a special system and issues related to a potential peace treaty. During their meeting, abe handed letters from former residents of the island. The residents were forced to flee from that communities after the war. Translator i understand that its difficult to clear up all difficulties once and for all. Were only able to give feedback on the talks at the moment, but it is a slight relief to hear that president putin got the letters we wrote and actually read them. Abe is expected to reaffirm government and