Morning news brief: Macron says Putin made 'historic error' by invading Ukraine and more
Morning news brief
French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday said his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin had committed a "historic and fundamental error" by invading Ukraine and was now "isolated".
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The French president repeated that Russia should not be "humiliated... so that the day the fighting stops we can pave a way out through diplomatic means." Macron also said he did not "rule out" a visit to Kyiv.
Elon Musk’s Tesla company reportedly hired a PR consultancy firm to monitor their employees’ activities on social media, especially Facebook, when some workers sought to form a union at the company’s factory in Fermont, California, between 2017 and 2018.
A former top adviser to ex-US president has been charged with contempt of Congress. Peter Navarro, faces a charge of refusing to cooperate with the House of Representatives committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. An announcement about the contempt charges was made by the Justice Department on Friday.
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