Welcome to the weekend. This week Ireland voted to legalize gay marriage, becoming the first nation to approve same-sex marriage by popular vote, the CEO of Axact (the company running a diploma mill I featured last week) was arrested on charged with fraud, forgery and illegal electronic money transfers, The Chinese army is shifting its focus to “open seas protection,” citing a growing number of neighboring countries with an “illegal presence” on China’s reefs and islands, Swiss authorities arrested several FIFA officials at a five-star hotel in Zurich as part of an investigation into alleged widespread corruption, and Google’s annual I/O conference kicks off in San Francisco.
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Weekend Briefing No. 68
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Welcome to the weekend. This week Ireland voted to legalize gay marriage, becoming the first nation to approve same-sex marriage by popular vote, the CEO of Axact (the company running a diploma mill I featured last week) was arrested on charged with fraud, forgery and illegal electronic money transfers, The Chinese army is shifting its focus to “open seas protection,” citing a growing number of neighboring countries with an “illegal presence” on China’s reefs and islands, Swiss authorities arrested several FIFA officials at a five-star hotel in Zurich as part of an investigation into alleged widespread corruption, and Google’s annual I/O conference kicks off in San Francisco.