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South Korea’s intelligence agency accused North Korea of attempting to hack into Seoul government websites and smartphones at the start of major military drills involving U.S. troops in the South.
At least 12 people were killed in a suicide bombing in northwestern Pakistan, the first terrorist response to the execution of a man who assassinated a politician he accused of blasphemy.
Some of the most compelling photographs from RFE/RL's broadcast region and beyond.
European leaders will meet with Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu as they seek to put pressure on Turkey to stem the continuing flow of displaced people into Northern Europe.
In photos selected Sunday by Wall Street Journal editors, mourners mark the second anniversary of the missing flight MH370, a refugee breakdances in Lebanon and more.
Political rivalries are delaying an offensive to recapture Mosul, Iraq’s second-largest city, from Islamic State, slowing the effort to take advantage of recent battlefield victories over the extremist group.
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The influx of Syrian refugees into Kilis, Turkey, is creating fissures in a country whose demographics have been fundamentally changed by the war.
The far-right Alternative for Germany’s surge in municipal elections in the German state of Hesse looks likely to be repeated in three upcoming state elections.
The CIA and the Turkish intelligence service have also opened a secret coordination center near Syria.
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Texas senator claims string of primary wins at weekend have brought in a flood of supporters from other campaigns
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Russia to Open Its Syria Bases to International Aid Cargos
New York Times MOSCOW — Russia says it is aiming to step up humanitarian aid to Syria's war-battered people by opening up its military facilities in Syria for international aid cargos. Defense Ministry spokesman Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov said Monday that Russia "is ... Russia offers access to its Syria bases to help deliver aidReuters With truce holding, Russian military offer assistance in aid deliveriesRT all 218 news articles » |
Carter: No Longer Needs Cancer Treatmentsby webdesk@voanews.com (VOA News)
Former U.S. president Jimmy Carter says he will no longer need to take medication for the skin cancer that had spread to his liver and brain. The 91-year-old statesman made the announcement at the Sunday school class he teaches in his hometown of Plains, Georgia. Carter Center spokeswoman Deanna Congileo said Carter will "continue scans and resume treatment if necessary." The former president first announced last August that a deadly form of skin cancer, melanoma, which...
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Modern Email Inventor Ray Tomlinson Diesby webdesk@voanews.com (VOA News)
American Ray Tomlinson, widely credited as the inventor of modern email, has died. He was 74. The cause of death was not immediately available. "A true technology pioneer, Ray was the man who brought us email in the early days of networked computers," his employer, Raytheon, said in a statement. "His work changed the way the world communicates." Tomlinson invented the direct electronic messaging system in 1971 that worked between different computer systems...
EU Looks to Turkey to Ease Migrant Crisisby webdesk@voanews.com (VOA News)
European Union leaders meet with their Turkish counterparts Monday to discuss efforts to slow the flow of migrants traveling to Europe as thousands of people remained stranded at the Greece-Macedonia border. EU diplomats said ahead of Monday's emergency meeting in Brussels that a draft EU agreement was set to declare the closure of the Balkan migration route. Countries from Macedonia on north have shut their borders, preventing people mainly from Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq from...
Biden Visits UAE Ahead of Stops in Israel, Jordanby webdesk@voanews.com (VOA News)
U.S. Vice President Joe Biden is meeting Monday with the crown prince of Abu Dhabi on the first leg of a trip that will include visits to Israel and Jordan. The White House said Biden and his wife Jill will also meet with U.S. forces stationed in the United Arab Emirates. Jill Biden will also attend an event on UAE efforts to promote gender empowerment. On Tuesday, they go to Dubai before flying to Israel. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will host talks with Biden on...
Taliban Suicide Bomber Kills 13 in Pakistanby webdesk@voanews.com (Ayaz Gul)
A Taliban suicide bomber has blown himself up outside a local court compound in northwestern Pakistan, killing at least 13 people and wounding at least 36 more. Authorities say police personnel, women and children were among those killed and wounded in the attack Monday in the town of Shabqadar. A local security official, Additional Assistant Commissioner Tariq Hassan, told reporters that police guards identified and intercepted the bomber but when they tried to grab him he detonated...
Some Syrians, Iraqis Relocated; Others Now Want False Passports by webdesk@voanews.com (Jamie Dettmer)
On Sunday more than 50 Syrians and Iraqis opted to enter a European Union relocation scheme that in theory should guarantee them placement in an EU country, although they don’t get to pick which one. The hardship they have been enduring on the Greece-Macedonian border, on top of the anxiety of traversing front-lines and crossing the Aegean Sea, which has claimed 430 refugee lives this year already, led them to make the decision. But with only 325 actually relocated under the scheme that...
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Turkey Wages Uphill Battle to Stop Migrant Smugglers on Aegean Sea
Wall Street Journal CESME, Turkey—On a mild winter day last week, Capt. Murat Yilmazarslan and his crew bore down on a dinghy packed with people making a dash across the Aegean Sea—a cheerless victory in the Turkish coast guard's uphill battle to stop smugglers ... 25 migrants drown off Turkey, few allowed into MacedoniaSalt Lake Tribune Migrant crisis: Leaders gather for Turkey-EU summitBBC News The Latest: Death Toll in Migrant Boat Sinking Rises to 25New York Times Reuters- Fox News all 1,320 news articles » |
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EU talks tough on migrants from Turkey, uneasy over rights
Reuters BRUSSELS The European Union hopes a summit with Turkey on Monday can start putting an end to the chaotic arrivals of migrants in Greece and halt their treks through the Balkans toward Germany, diplomats said on Sunday. The meeting in Brussels will ... NATO to Expand Patrols in Aegean Sea to Stop Human TraffickersNew York Times AP Interview: NATO expands migrant mission in Aegean SeaWashington Post NATO, Turkey, Greece Reach Agreement on Migrant MonitoringWall Street Journal Yahoo News -BBC News all 682 news articles » |
Washington Post |
Bad strategy, poorly run campaign are killing Marco Rubio's chances
Washington Post Sensing an opportunity for an upset victory, Marco Rubio spent most of Friday in Kansas, where he picked up a series of high- profile endorsements that he hoped could help thrust him into contention. Instead, he finished a disappointing third ... Trump, Cruz angling for one-on-one Republican raceReuters The GOP Race Isn't OverWall Street Journal Donald Trump defiant as GOP leaders fight to stop himLos Angeles Times Fox News -USA TODAY -Chicago Tribune all 5,242 news articles » |
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Insight - Afghans feel forgotten in Europe's migrant crisis
Reuters CESME, Turkey As the European Union and Turkey focus on stemming the flow of Syrian refugees attempting perilous journeys across the Aegean sea to Greece, another migrant community whose numbers are also swelling says it is being overlooked. NATO to Expand Patrols in Aegean Sea to Stop Human TraffickersNew York Times AP Interview: NATO expands migrant mission in Aegean SeaWashington Post Turkey Wages Uphill Battle to Stop Migrant Smugglers on Aegean SeaWall Street Journal BBC News -Yahoo News all 635 news articles » |
New York Times |
Queens Man in Custody After Stabbing 2 People and Burning One, Police Say
New York Times A 23-year-old man slashed a woman in the face on Sunday morning in Queens before fatally stabbing a man and burning another man several hours later at a nearby liquor store, setting off a wild manhunt that ended with police officers shooting at the man ... Police Shoot Suspect After Deadly Rampage in QueensWall Street Journal Suspect nabbed in fatal stabbing, 2 attacks in New York CityWashington Post Suspect Killed Man, Set Another on Fire and Slashed Woman in Queens RampageDNAinfo amNY-New York Post- New York's PIX11 / WPIX-TV all 37 amNY-New York Daily News-New York Post all 31 news articles » |
ZDNet |
New OS X ransomware discovered in the wild
ZDNet A new strain of ransomware which strikes OS X devices has been discovered by researchers. The ransomware, dubbed KeRanger, was discovered on the legitimate website of open-source BitTorrent client project Transmission, Palo Alto Networks said in a ... Apple users reportedly targeted in first known Mac ransomware campaignVentureBeat Apple shuts down first-ever ransomware attack against Mac usersPCWorld Apple Mac users targeted by 'ransom' hacking attackCNBC Huffington Post-Gizmodo all 145 news articles » |
BBC News |
Migrant crisis: EU seeks to close Balkan route at summit
BBC News Turkish and EU leaders have gathered in Brussels for an emergency summit on tackling Europe's worst refugee crisis since World War Two. The EU aims to stem the flow of migrants and plans to declare the route north through the Balkans closed. It will ... EU leaders gather for migrant crisis summit with Turkish PMCNN Refugee Crisis: UK Joins NATO In The AegeanNewsweek EU leaders to press Turkey, back Greece at migrant summitSan Francisco Chronicle Voice of America -SFGate all 1,045 news articles » |
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EU, Turkish Leaders Gather In Brussels For Migrant Crisis Talks by support@pangea-cms.com (RFE/RL)
European Union leaders will be sitting down with Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu in Brussels on March 7 for an emergency summit on tackling Europe's worst refugee crisis since World War II.
The Daily Vertical: Putin's Liberal Enablers (Transcript)by support@pangea-cms.com (Brian Whitmore)
We soon may be able to add yet another name to the list of Vladimir Putin's liberal enablers.
Russia's Defense Ministry has said it was ready to give access to its military bases in Syria for humanitarian aid deliveries.
Residents gathered at the site of a suicide bombing on Sunday at a checkpoint in Hilla, Iraq, south of Baghdad.
The day before a European conference on the migrant crisis, NATO announced it would strengthenits presence in the territorial waters of Turkey and Greece.
Overheard at Oberlin: The Holocaust was mere "white on white crime."
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LONDON (Reuters) - A long-running dispute over the leadership of Libya's $67 billion sovereign wealth fund reaches London's High Court on Monday, potentially paving the way for litigation against two global investment banks to move forward.
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - A suicide attack at a court compound killed at least eight people in northwestern Pakistan on Monday, officials said, the latest in a series of attacks in areas around the volatile Mohmand tribal area.
PARIS (Reuters) - France's foreign minister said on Monday the decision by Turkish authorities to seize control of the country's largest newspaper was "unacceptable" and went against European values.
BEIRUT (Reuters) - The main Syrian opposition council will go to talks that the United Nations aims to convene in Geneva "God willing" and wants an immediate start to negotiations on a transitional governing body, a spokesman for the council told Reuters on Monday.
BRATISLAVA (Reuters) - Slovak President Andrej Kiska said on Monday he would ask Prime Minister Robert Fico to try to form a government after Saturday's election in which Fico's leftist Smer party won the most votes but lost its parliamentary majority.
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's Defence Ministry said on Monday it was ready to give access to its military bases in Syria for humanitarian aid deliveries.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu discussed freedom of the press on Sunday, following the seizure of Turkey's largest newspaper by authorities, a German government spokeswoman said.
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi highlighted in a phone conversation on Monday that the fight against terrorists should continue not only in Syria but also in Libya and Yemen, the Kremlin said in a statement.
BERLIN (Reuters) - Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives are losing support ahead of elections in three German states on Sunday that are shaping up as a litmus test of her migrant policies.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republican leaders on Sunday grappled with the prospect that the best hope for stopping Donald Trump's march to the nomination may be Ted Cruz - the only candidate who causes as much heartburn among party elites as the billionaire businessman, if not sometimes more....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Unlike other presidential wives, Nancy Reagan didn't testify before Congress about health care, celebrate controversial Supreme Court decisions or sit in on Cabinet meetings....
Iraqi refugees return after Europe disappointsby By BALINT SZLANKO
SULAIMANIYAH, Iraq (AP) -- Surkaw Omar and Rebien Abdullah quit their jobs and spent their life savings to migrate to Europe, only to find crowded asylum camps, hunger and freezing weather. Now back home in northern Iraq, they describe their quest for a better life as a disaster....
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- When North Korea makes threats to nuke its enemies, as it has twice over the last several days, outsiders often have one of two reactions: to dismiss it as yet another example of empty propaganda or to panic....
AP Investigation: American company bungled Ebola responseby By RAPHAEL SATTER and MARIA CHENG
WASHINGTON (AP) -- An American company that bills itself as a pioneer in tracking emerging epidemics made a series of costly mistakes during the 2014 Ebola outbreak that swept across West Africa - with employees feuding with fellow responders, contributing to misdiagnosed Ebola cases and repeatedly misreading the trajectory of the virus, an Associated Press investigation has found....
Legislators in France are watching closely the fight between Apple and the FBI, but, in the meantime, the French National Assembly has amended a pending counterterrorism bill to impose heavy penalties on technology companies that fail to cooperate in decrypting communications relating to terrorism investigations.
The National Assembly is currently considering a bill on Combatting Organized Crime, Terrorism, and Related Financing and Improving the Efficiency and Guarantees of Criminal Procedure. The bill as submitted by the government is available here. A vote is expected this Tuesday before it heads to the Senate.
During its consideration of the bill, the National Assembly last week adopted an amendment that would impose a 350,000 euro fine and five years imprisonment on private companies and their executives who, in terrorism investigations, refuse to provide to the authorities data protected by encryption standards they created.
The amendment also increases penalties for those who do not design their own encryption. Article 60-1 of the Code of Criminal Procedure provides that the prosecutor or the judicial police may, “by any means,” require any person “likely to have information relevant to an investigation,” including digital and personal data, to turn over such information. Failure to comply promptly is subject to a 3,750 euro fine. The amendment would increase that penalty to 15,000 euros and two years imprisonment for terrorism investigations.
The amendment would similarly enhance penalties for a more general provision—article 60-2 of the Code of Criminal Procedure—that requires public and private parties, with limited exceptions, to make available “information useful for ascertaining the truth.” The current provision also allows the police with prior judicial authorization to require telecommunications service providers to take without delay “all measures necessary” to preserve for up to one year the content of information consulted by persons using their services. Under the amended bill, a 3,750 euro fine would become a 15,000 euro fine plus two years imprisonment for terrorism investigations.
These penalties have apparently never been enforced, so some observers question whether increasing them is necessary.
During floor debates, however, Deputy Philippe Goujon characterized the current penalties as “paltry” and proposed the amendment as a “compromise” to shuttle the bill through Parliament.
The National Assembly had rejected other amendments with higher financial penalties.
An amendment proposed by socialist Deputy Éric Ciotti (text here) would have required that the manufacturers of telecommunications tools, telecom operators, and Internet service providers provide all relevant communications in a terrorism investigation to the authorities. Violations would result in a two million euro fine and a one-year ban on marketing products and services in France.
In support of the amendment, Deputy Ciotti noted that, according to a special computer science unit of the French judicial police, at least 8 cell phones of the 133 analyzed in 2015 could not be "treated.” Those phones included an iPhone 4S, seized in connection with the investigation of the November 13 attacks in Paris, and a mobile phone of Sid Ahmed Ghlam who had planned to attack a church in Villejuif last year.
Two other amendments by Deputy Yann Galut (text here and here) would have increased fines to one million euros for designers of electronic equipment who refuse to cooperate in providing access to data relevant to an ongoing investigation. In support of these measures, Deputy Galut and others cited a New York Times op-ed from August 2015 by the Manhattan district attorney, Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., and the Paris chief prosecutor, François Molins, that warned about going dark.
The amendments produced a heated debate with Apple, Google, and other tech multinationals front and center.
In the morning session on Thursday, Deputy Ciotti argued that heavy penalties were required “when faced with companies whose market capitalization reaches several hundred billion dollars, who consider state governments dwarfs, and who show contempt for the law.” He therefore proposed a temporary ban on marketing as “the only way to signal to these companies that their financial incentives will never surpass the laws of a democratic state.”
Deputy Galut emphasized that multinationals have effectively “decided to enact their own legislation” and that frustrating investigations is “unacceptable.”
The rapporteur for the Committee of Laws, Pascal Popelin, condemned refusals to cooperate by tech giants acting “in the name of a pseudo-defense of liberties” and trying to “justify the unjustifiable.” However, he noted that other provisions of the French Code provide that the government can already require decryption, though those provisions do not set specific penalties for failure to comply.
Another deputy observed that the debate is not a simple one pitting multinationals completely insensitive to terrorism against judges singularly pursuing the truth in investigations. He also cautioned, “Think about what could happen to decryption keys in the hands of authoritarian regimes, like China, North Korea, or Syria.”
Minister of Justice Jean-Jacques Urvoas asked the deputies to withdraw their amendments. “A national law is ineffective,” he said. Only “international cooperation” can provide an effective solution. He assured the deputies that the French government is already working with Brussels for a solution at the EU and that Robert Gelli, the Director of the Department of Criminal Affairs of the Ministry of Justice, is meeting with American officials. The next meeting is on March 18.
The Galut amendments were withdrawn, and the Ciotti amendment failed by a vote of 12 to 11. Meanwhile, the Goujon amendment passed.
The amendment will likely change before becoming law.
Speaking for the Committee of Laws, rapporteur Pascal Popelin noted Deputy Goujon’s compromise amendment would prove useful: “strengthening penalties for refusing to cooperate with the authorities is one of the best vehicles for improving the authorities’ access to information necessary to ascertain the truth” in investigations. However, he noted that the text creates some problems of consistency in the Code of Criminal Procedure. Although the Minister of Justice Urvoas opposed the amendment for these reasons, it passed.
If the bill emerges from the National Assembly, the Senate will need to work with the government to iron out any discrepancies in the amendment. Deputy Goujon concluded, “It costs nothing to adopt this amendment. . . . It is raw material that the government can modify through the legislative process. I am confident that we can ultimately reach a mutually agreeable provision.”
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Turkey's largest newspaper has published its first edition since being taken over by the state, with a string of pro-government articles.
A gruesome murder goes unreported in Russia because TV executives forget that their job is to report what happens, not propaganda.
Five years after the civil war began with protests against the regime of Bashar al-Assad began in southern Syria, a fragile truce is still holding in many areas of the country.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union hopes a summit with Turkey on Monday can start putting an end to the chaotic arrivals of migrants in Greece and halt their treks through the Balkans toward Germany, diplomats said on Sunday.
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - A little-known alliance of hundreds of lawyers in Pakistan is behind the rise in prosecutions for blasphemy, a crime punishable by death that goes to the heart of an ideological clash between reformers and religious conservatives.
NATO military commanders reached an agreement with Turkey and Greece over the area of operations for the alliance mission to monitor migrants trying to cross the Aegean Sea.
Former US First Lady Nancy Reagan has died at her home in Los Angeles, aged 94.
The former US first lady Nancy Reagan has died, at the age of 94. Reagan was married to President Ronald Reagan, who served in the White House from 1980 to 1988. She was born Anne Frances Robbins in New York City, 6 July 1921, but was known as Nancy from an early age. In 1951 she met Ronald Reagan, and a year later they married and went on to have a son and a daughter, Ron and Patti
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World leaders pay tribute as the former actress and widow of Ronald Reagan dies of heart failure aged 94
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