Author: Adam Satariano and Jeanna Smialek
\ Published on: 20/06/2025 | 00:00:00

AI Summary:
\ Microsoft recently suspended the email account of an International Criminal Court prosecutor in the Netherlands who was investigating Israel for war crimes. Mr. Trump’s order abruptly threw that relationship into disarray by barring U.S. Companies from providing services to the prosecutor, Karim Khan. Microsoft, which is based in Redmond, Wash., suspended Mr. Khan’s email account, freezing him out of communications with colleagues just a few months after the court had issued an arrest warrant for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel for Microsoft said the decision to suspend Mr. Khan’s email had been made in consultation with the I.C.C. The company said it had since enacted policy changes that had been in the works before the episode. Microsoft’s president said the concerns raised by the episode were a “symptom” of an erosion of trust between the United States and Europe. Trump and Vice President JD Vance have criticized how Europe regulates American tech companies. European regulators have argued they need to be able to police the biggest digital platforms in their own countries without worrying that they will face political pressure and punishment from a foreign government. But institutions across the region have turned to American digital services. Amazon, Google, Microsoft and other U.S. Firms control 70 percent of the cloud computing market in Europe. Microsoft provides the court with services like the Office software suite and software for evidence analysis and file storage. Microsoft has also provided cybersecurity software to help the court withstand digital attacks from adversaries like Russia, which is being investigated for war crimes in Ukraine. In February, Mr. Trump issued penalties against Mr. Khan. He switched his correspondence to another email account. In the European Union, officials have announced plans to spend billions of euros on new A.I. Data centers and cloud computing infrastructure that rely less on U.S. Companies. In the Netherlands, the country is working with European providers on new solutions. The Islamic Republic has rejected his call for “unconditional surrender” in its war with Israel. The Justice Department plans to slash the number of inspectors who monitor gun sales by two-thirds, sharply limiting the government’s capacity to identify businesses that sell to criminals. Trump intends to extend the deadline again for TikTok to diverge from its Chinese owner, ByteDance.

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