Former and current employees of Silicon Valley Community Foundation say top executives ignored complaints of a toxic environment.

Mari Ellen Loijens, the foundation's top fund-raiser, was accused of making racist and sexually charged remarks and bullying her colleagues.

Employees said the company's CEO Emmett Carson ignored complaints because of how much money Loijens brought in.

Loijens has since resigned and Carson was placed on administrative leave.

Mark Zuckerberg has donated more than one billion to the foundation since 2011.

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he Most Reverend Michael Curry is set to march in Washington D.C. and denounce the US president's leadership as 'dangerous'.

Bishop Curry has denounced a 'crisis of moral and political leadership' in the US under president Trump.

He is due to give a speech at the ceremony in St George's Chapel in Windsor next Saturday - and comes after it was revealed the US president would not be invited to the event.

Bishop Curry publicly criticised Trump as recently as last week, in a letter which was signed by a further 22 other Christian leaders.

The letter read: 'We reject the resurgence of white nationalism and racism in our nation on many fronts, including the highest levels of ­political leadership.'

Rev Curry, from Chicago, has previously backed gay marriage and transgender rights and is the 27th presiding bishop and primate of the Episcopal Church.

The Episcopal Church is an offshoot of the Church of England in the US and forms part of the broader Anglican Communion worldwide.

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Associated Press reporter Mike Lee went with Pompeo to Pyongyang last week.

He and Washington Post reporter Carol Morello were the only journalists there.

When they arrived, they did not know if Pompeo would meet with Kim Jong-un.

They also did not know if three US men being held as prisoners would be freed.

Jong-un and Pompeo met for 90 minutes on Wednesday behind closed doors.

Ten minutes later, they learned that the three men would be release.

They all left together on one plane then split into two while refueling in Japan.

Pompeo stayed on his plane with the journalists and the men went on another.

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The Trump administration is reportedly looking into a new plan that would help citizens of Iran topple the country's hardline regime.

Less than a week President Trump announced the US would be withdrawing from the landmark Iran nuclear accord despite widespread opposition from allies who warned that pulling out of the agreement could cause a global crisis.

Trump also vowed to reimpose the harsh economic sanctions in place prior to the deal implemented in 2015 in exchange for heavy restrictions on Iran's nuclear program.

With the new plan the administration would assist the Iranian public in unseating the staunch regime in Iran that's already in a very vulnerable position after months of violent protests and an imploding economy.

The three-page white paper being circulated among National Security Council officials in the White House offers a democratization strategy that would drive an even deeper wedge between the Iranian public and the regime headed by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

The plan, obtained by the Washington Free Beacon, was authored by the Securities Studies Group, a think tank with close ties to the White House, namely National Security Adviser John Bolton.

It would work to reshape foreign policy toward Iran by explicitly seeking a regime change, something the Obama administration opposed back in 2009 when similar popular protests were occurring in the Arab country.

The current administration has been moving in the direction of this kind of policy shift ever since Bolton entered the White House in April.

Bolton has been a vocal supporter of a regime change in Iran for several years, even penning an op-ed on the topic in 2015.

Under Bolton's leadership, the Trump administration is heading in that direction as well.

'The Trump administration has no desire to roll tanks in an effort to directly topple the Iranian regime,' SSG president Jim Hanson told the Washington Free Beacon.

'But they would be much happier dealing with a post-Mullah government. That is the most likely path to a nuclear weapons-free and less dangerous Iran.'

The proposed plan focuses on pushing the Iranian public to make political change rather than using direct military intervention by the US.

'The ordinary people of Iran are suffering under economic stagnation, while the regime ships its wealth abroad to fight its expansionist wars and to pad the bank accounts of the Mullahs and the IRGC command,' SSG writes in the paper.

'This has provoked noteworthy protests across the country in recent months.'

The Free Beacon reported that an NSC official declined to comment directly on the paper but confirmed that the White House is working to 'change the Iranian regime's behavior'.

'Our stated policy is to change the Iranian regime's behavior of continuous destabilizing regional acts and support of terrorism,' the official said.

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Global, Iran April 26 2018

The Kingdom of Bahrain recently filed its statement of defence in an ongoing UNCITRAL arbitration in the Permanent Court of Arbitration (“PCA”) in The Hague against Iranian financial institutions Bank Melli and Bank Saderat. The statement of defence cites a Bahraini government audit evidencing a multibillion-dollar corruption scheme perpetrated by Bank Melli and Bank Saderat on Bahraini soil.

Trojan Horse” inside Bahrain, facilitating more than USD 7 billion of Iranian business

According to Bahrain’s defence, a lookback into the bank’s historic business shows that it was used by Iran as a “Trojan horse” inside Bahrain, affording Iran “secret access” to the international monetary system in defiance of U.S. and other international sanctions intended to isolate Tehran.

Specifically, the bank is alleged to have avoided sanctions against Iran, to the tune of at least USD 7 billion, by deliberately removing or changing certain identifying information when transferring money between banks—a practice known as “wire-stripping.” Bahrain asserts that the auditors detected more than 4,500 instances of wire-stripping by Future Bank officials designed to conceal Iran’s role as the sender or recipient of funds.

As a result, Future Bank may have facilitated business for purposes of organized crime, arms proliferation and terrorism. The audit apparently identified “hundreds of bank accounts tied to individuals convicted of crimes including money laundering and terrorism financing, as well as phantom loans provided to companies that operate as fronts for Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.”

The Washington Post obtained and reported the confidential PCA filing as well as a statement from Bahraini Foreign Minister Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa, who summarized the audit as “reveal[ing] crimes and violations of Bahraini and international law of massive proportions.”

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