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Tech giant Google was hit with a gender discrimination lawsuit.  It alleges the company "has discriminated and continues to discriminate against its female employees by systematically paying them lower compensation than Google pays to male employees" doing essentially the same jobs.  In other words, segregating women into lower-paying gigs.  The three female plaintiffs seek class-action status for all women employed by Google over the past four years.  Google denies the "central allegations", which are based on voluminous testimony from US Department of Labor hearings, which showed "statistically significant (compensation) disparities adverse to women across the board".

Bitcoin is way down, tumbling below US$3,500 at one point after Chinese bitcoin exchange BTCChina said it would stop all trading from 30 September.  The volatile crypto-currency is now more than 30 percent lighter than the record highs it hit earlier in the month, and the pressure forced Ethereum down as well.  China had been a booming location for Bitcoin, but the government has been cracking down on the unregulated on the cryptocurrency sector to stamp out financial risks to consumers who rushed into a highly risky and speculative market.

Speaking of volatile and highly risky, Donald Trump rolled back expectations and denied he had reached a deal with Democrats on preserving Obama-era protections to children of undocumented workers, a group known as the "Dreamers".  And then a few minutes later he advanced expectations again by tweeting the Dreamers are "good, educated, and accomplished" in their jobs and the US military.  So, no one knows what the hell he's talking about.  Last night, Trump had Democratic Party congressional leaders Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi to the White House for dinner, and afterwards they hinted that a deal to protect the dreamers was near.  Later, Trump's ultra-conservative base was apoplectic over not being able to deport the Dreamers. 

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson says Myanmar's de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi must use her "moral capital" to pressure her country's military to stop a gruesome campaign of persecution against the Rohingya.  "We need to support Aung San Suu Kyi and her leadership but also be very clear and unequivocal to the military power sharing in that government that this is unacceptable," Tillerson said.  "This violence must stop.  This persecution must stop.  It has been characterized by many as ethnic cleansing.  That must stop."  Suu Kyi has been widely condemned for not doing more to protect the Rohingya from nationalist mob violence and the military.

Amnesty International says at least 80 large fires have been set in Rohingya villages in western Myanmar, accusing government forces of "systematic" clearances of Rohingya Muslim villages over the last three weeks.  "Rakhine state is on fire," said Amnesty's Olof Blomqvist, who said the evidence showed a "clear campaign of ethnic cleansing by the Myanmar security forces".  The UN said the number of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh climbed to 389,000, hinting at a "worst-case scenario" in which all members of the Muslim minority flee the violence in their ancestral homes.

Iron security bars trapped students inside their dormitory at at an Islamic boy's school in Kuala Lumpur while fire blocked their only exit from the building - at least 21 students and two teachers died in the blaze.  Officials believe it started with an electrical short circuit.

The so-called Islamic State claims responsibility for attacks in southern Iraq that targeted Shiite Iranian religious pilgrims.  Two targeted restaurants on a highway near the city of Nassiriya, another struck a police checkpoint. 

Russia and Belarussia launched massive military exercises called 'Zapad-2017'.  It's got the NATO alliance on edge because these are Russia's first military games since the ones that were used as cover for its 2014 annexation of Ukraine's Crimea peninsula.  These exercises are taking place menacingly close to Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia - three former SSRs that Russia has has been poking at over the last couple of years.

Uruguay appointed its first female vice president - 72-year old Lucia Topolansky is a former Left-wing guerrilla who fought the military junta in the 1960s and '70s, was jailed, and survived torture.  She replaces Jose Sendic who resigned amid corruption allegations.  Ordinarily, the senate's most-senior member would have been appointed veep, but that would been Topolansky's husband, former President Jose Mujica - the guy who legalized marijuana - and Uruguayan law prohibits him from being in line for the presidency again.  I love that family.

Grant Hart, the former drummer and co-lead singer of the influential 1980s punk rock band Husker Du, is dead at age 56 after a battle with kidney cancer.  Husker Du didn't become a household name, but did shape the next wave of alternative/punk bands like Nirvana, Green Day, and The Foo Fighters.  Their 1985 album Zen Arcade is generally considered to be one of the best of the genre.