A Gas Discovery in Egypt Threatens to Upend Mideast Energy Diplomacy
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The Zohr field is already brightening Egypt’s economic prospects, but the discovery also has repercussions for relations with Arab neighbors and with Israel.
RT's Lizzie Phelan and her crew report from Palmyra in direct sight of Islamic State militants, who are holding positions among the ruins of the world heritage site. With the terrorists weakened by Russian airstrikes, the Syrian Army is preparing for an offensive to retake Palmyra.
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Russia risks a repeat of doomed Afghan war in Syria, says EU foreign policy chief by Julian Borger in Strasbourg
Federica Mogherini urges Moscow to seek political solution before peace talks aimed at ending four-year conflict
Russia risks being trapped in another quagmire like Afghanistan unless it helps orchestrate a political transition in Syria, the EU foreign policy chief, Federica Mogherini, has warned.
Referencing the Soviet-Afghan war, Mogherini spoke on Wednesday on the eve of a new multilateral push to end the four-year Syrian conflict.
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Russian Government's Rainy-Day Fund on Last Legsby webdesk@voanews.com (Victor Vasiliev)
Back in 2004, Russia began putting extra revenue from oil sales into what was initially called the Stabilization Fund – a rainy day fund designed to serve as a budgetary reserve if energy prices dropped precipitously. Four years later, the Stabilization Fund was split in two. One part is the Reserve Fund, which is invested in low-yield foreign securities and whose mission is to ensure federal budget financing in case oil and gas budget revenues declined. The other part is the National...
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Saudi Arabia to release man facing 350 lashes
Fox News The British grandfather who was facing 350 lashes in Saudi Arabia will be released within a week, the Foreign Secretary has said. Karl Andree was facing the punishment after being caught with homemade wine in his car, breaching the country's ban on ... Briton, 74, facing 360 lashes in Saudi Arabia to be releasedCNN British foreign secretary visits Saudi Arabia, meets King Salman and others on ...Minneapolis Star Tribune British grandfather Karl Andree to be released from Saudi Arabia prisonTelegraph.co.uk all 139 Briton sentenced to flogging in Saudi Arabia to be freedThe Guardian Irish Independent-Telegraph.co.uk all 111 news articles » |
A senior Iranian official is publicly dismissing the latest report by a U.N. investigator about a spike in executions in Iran.
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ROME (Reuters) - Rescuers plucked more than a thousand migrants from overcrowded boats near Libya on Wednesday morning, Italy's coast guard said, the most reported saved in a single day in three weeks.
NATO countries are discussing stationing more troops in members bordering Russia and putting them under formal alliance command, part of a new effort to deter aggression from Moscow, diplomats and military officers say.
A man has been in prison in the US for 23 years for shooting dead a British tourist, even though the judge in his trial and police detectives believe he is innocent of the crime, a BBC investigation finds.
Freak Wave Blamed in Capsizing of Whale-watching Boatby webdesk@voanews.com (Associated Press)
Passengers were crowded on the left side of the top deck of a whale-watching boat when it was struck by a wave from the right side, causing the vessel to roll over and capsize, sending 27 people into the water off Vancouver Island's west coast, an investigator said. Five British nationals were killed, and the search continued for a missing Australian man. Twenty-one people were rescued after the Leviathan II capsized Sunday afternoon. Marc Andre Poisson, Director of Marine...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Member nations of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization are discussing increasing the number of troops stationed along the Russian border and putting them under formal alliance command, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday, citing diplomats and military officers.
Islamic State on recruitment spree in Russiaby Arsen Mollayev and Vladimir Isachenkov | AP
The Russian province of Dagestan, a flashpoint for Islamic violence in the North Caucasus, is feeding hundreds of fighters to the Islamic State in Syria — and now some are coming back home with experience gained from the battlefield.
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Lobby of the CIA Headquarters (SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images)
The Central Intelligence Agency’s second annual public conference on national security, “The Ethos and the Profession of Intelligence” was held in collaboration with The George Washington Universityyesterday on The George Washington University campus in Washington, DC. Speakers and panelists represented a cross-section of the entire US intelligence community and its partners and included, in order of appearance, CIA Director John Brennan, NSA Director Adm. Mike Rogers, NGA Director Robert Cardillo, DIA Deputy Director Doug Wise, NIC Chairman Gregory Treverton, DNI James Clapper, CIA General Counsel Caroline Krass, CIA Associate Director for Talent Glenn Gaffney, CIA Deputy Director of Digital Innovation Andrew Hallway, former Israeli National Security Advisor Yaakov Amirdror, French Directorate General for External Security Director Bernard Bajolet, former MI6 Chief John Sawers, and former CIA Director and FBI Director Judge William Webster.
Many of the themes discussed at the conference revolved around the profound changes that technology is placing on the intelligence business. For example, just as America leverages the “digital dust” that our adversaries leave online to trace their activity, so too can our adversaries use that same information to track our own agents. The impact of all of the digital traces that we leave today on the ability of the intelligence community to conduct covert action around the world has been a topic of significant discussion lately. In the past a cover story might involve just a few strategic pieces of information, while today it must involve a rich tapestry of digital traces to look authentic, which requires understanding the “patterns of life” of the digital age.
Surprisingly, the Internet of Things and cybersecurity was more heavily discussed in some of the panels than traditional terrorism. The panelists noted the extreme leveling force of cyberattacks in that even small nations and non-state actors are able to field substantial offensive capability that can cause heavy damage to large nation states. A nearly identical theme was expressed several weeks ago by Chief of Staff of the Army General Mark Milley several weeks ago in a Foreign Affairs event, showing the growing concern across both intelligence and military communities in the leveling effect of cyberwar.
Given that NSA Director Adm. Mike Rogers was one of the panelists, several questions revolved around the future of secrecy in the Snowden era. It was noted that there have always been Snowdens, but the danger is that in the digital era vastly more material can be stolen than was ever possible in the paper era. It was argued that this has led to the emerging concept of secrets having “halflives” in which the level of effort spend to protect them might decrease over the course of a secret’s life based on its value.
Of particular interest, a question was posed to one of the panels whether secrecy itself was dying in an era where people share their most intimate secrets with the entire world via social media. Twenty years ago people would have regarded many of the things being shared online today as their most closely guarded secrets, yet for the social media generation, almost nothing appears to be off limits for sharing with the entire planet. The intrinsic tension between cybersecurity and intelligence was also a topic of discussion. As one panelist put it, on the one hand, we ideally want every website to adopt the absolute best cybersecurity posture to make it impossible for others to hack it, but on the other hand, we want it to be as easy as possible for America to access the information it needs.
The conference also touched on some of the challenges facing the open source intelligence community (the use of public information sources like news and social media) in today’s social media world. Several of the panelists alluded to the belief among some that far less training is required to understand and utilize open material compared with traditional covert sources, using the example that anyone can turn on their television or look on social media to see what’s happening around the world. Yet, such views ignore the highly uneven landscape of open information and the linguistic andcultural knowledge required to make sense of it.
Finally, turning to the intelligence workforce of the future, the US Government simply cannot afford the salaries that top talent are able to obtain in the private sector, which is making it hard for the intelligence community to hire the people they need. However, in place of salary, the notions of “mission” and the unique opportunity to impact world events are strengths the community is able to leverage. One of the panelists noted that entrepreneurs who have already founded and sold their companies and have enough money, but are still looking for challenges to solve, may find the community especially interesting.
Yet, perhaps the greatest obstacle is the work environment. The very workers the community is interested in are those who likely have extensive international travel or global business networks that can lead to clearance processes taking up to two years in the worst case. Workers sit in cubicles and tend to have very little job fluidity, while wireless internet and mobile connectivity are largely unheard of. In contrast, the startup world tends to emphasize open workspaces, constant mobile connectivity, open and free dialog, and rapid and fluid movement of personnel to wherever they are needed most at any given moment. One of the approaches the intelligence community is experimenting with is to place new recruits in the commercial sector to begin work on unclassified projects during the months or year or more that the clearance process takes, allowing them to begin gaining experience they will be able to take with them to their ultimate roles.
In all, the increasing role of technology in our modern world and its impact on the intelligence process was a central theme of the conference, with the ability to understand and make sense of data and leverage digital tools critical skills alongside linguistic and cultural understanding. The entire nine hour conference was recorded and is available via YouTube.
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Key talks were held last Friday in Vienna on the Syrian crisis. The top diplomats for the United States, Russia, Saudi Arabia and Turkey met. One key absentee: Iran. It seems now an invitation could be made to Tehran to join the next round of discussions. Iran has been a firm support to the Assad regime throughout the Syrian civil war.
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Iran's role in Syria once again in focus by AlJazeeraEnglish
The Iranian role in the conflict is once again in focus:
There are reports that eleven Iranian soldiers have been killed in Syria in the last 48 hours, and Tehran has also been asked to attend a global summit on the Syrian crisis, starting in Vienna on Thursday.
There are reports that eleven Iranian soldiers have been killed in Syria in the last 48 hours, and Tehran has also been asked to attend a global summit on the Syrian crisis, starting in Vienna on Thursday.
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Transit officials say a commuter was robbed, zapped with a stun gun and thrown onto train tracks during a robbery in Philadelphia and barely avoided electrocution. (Oct. 28)
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Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert pleaded guilty to lying to federal investigators about plans to pay someone he had wronged $3.5 million in hush money. As part of a plea deal, prosecutors recommend a prison sentence of up to six months.
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The Iranians have announced they would attend the Vienna talks on Syria. What is the US Deputy secretary of State Antony J. Blinken reaction to this announcement? The US top diplomat says US is willing to discuss with Tehran to find a solution to the Syrian crisis, as long as Iranians are ready to use the influence they have on the region and on Assad. Watch the full interview:https://youtu.be/SrFnAd0DW6w
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Russian society's inability to respond in a timely manner to serious injustices, just like a pupil that does not respond to light, cannot mean anything good, writes columnist Ivan Sukhov.
Russia, the Internet and a new way to wage war?
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Islamic State on recruitment spree in Russia
Military Times In this Jan. 20, 2014, file photo, Russian special force soldiers wear masks during an anti-terrorist operation in Makhachkala, regional capital of Dagestan, Russia. The Russian province of Dagestan, a flashpoint for Islamic violence in the North ... The Russian village that sent 20 men to wage jihad in SyriaWashington Post all 5 news articles » |
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