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Apple and Google Named in Lawsuit Over Congolese Child Cobalt Mining Deaths

POWER STRUGGLE

Families say their kids were killed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo while mining for cobalt used to power smartphones, laptops, and electric cars.

Jamie Ross
Jamie Ross 

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