Prince William has been asked to intervene in the case of a Manchester man detained in Saudi Arabia during his upcoming official visit to the country, according to Sky News. Simultaneously, Norwegian Olympian Sturla Holm Laegreid admitted to cheating on his girlfriend after winning a bronze medal, as reported by Sky News. In other news, employees at Salesforce are urging CEO Marc Benioff to denounce actions by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), while Palantir CEO Alex Karp addressed employee concerns regarding the company's work with ICE in a prerecorded video, according to Wired. Finally, former NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen discussed Europe-U.S. relations with NPR.
Amnesty International has written to Prince William, sharing the plight of Ahmed al-Doush, a father of four and senior banking analyst for Bank of America, who is currently detained in Saudi Arabia, Sky News reported. The organization hopes the Prince will raise al-Doush's case during his first official trip to the country.
In a separate development, Norwegian Olympian Sturla Holm Laegreid confessed to cheating on his girlfriend in a live television interview, moments after winning a bronze medal at the Winter Olympics, according to Sky News. Laegreid, who finished third in the biathlon, told fans he "already had a gold medal" until last week, but squandered it by being unfaithful.
Meanwhile, employees at Salesforce are circulating an internal letter to CEO Marc Benioff, urging him to denounce recent actions by ICE, Wired reported. The letter specifically cites the recent killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis as catalysts, calling them a "devastating indictment of a system that has discarded human decency." The letter also calls for prohibiting the use of Salesforce software by immigration agents and backing federal legislation to reform the agency. The letter is being organized amid Salesforce's annual leadership kickoff event in Las Vegas.
Palantir CEO Alex Karp addressed employee concerns regarding the company's work with ICE in a prerecorded video conversation, according to Wired. Courtney Bowman, Palantir's global director of privacy and civil liberties engineering, shared the nearly hour-long video with employees. Bowman wrote in an email, "I sat down with Dr. Karp earlier for a longform discussion" to address questions about Palantir's place in the world.
Finally, former NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen discussed Europe-U.S. relations with NPR ahead of the Munich Security Conference. The interview touched on the current state of relations between the two entities.
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