Green card and visa holders were reported to be blocked from boarding US-bound flights within hours of Donald Trump issuing an executive order limiting immigration from several Muslim countries, according to different sources. People w/ valid US visas but are citizens of one 7 countries under travel ban, incl Iran & Syria, will be denied entry, official tells…
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Europol on webcam hacking
Today, 28 January 2017, is Data Protection Day. To mark the occasion, Europol’s Data Protection Office (DPO) would like to raise awareness on webcam hacking, which can seriously threaten users of phones and laptops. Webcam hacking: someone might be spying on you. Web cameras on laptops have become very popular nowadays: they are involved in everyday…
Europol: Cybercriminals arrests
EUROPOL, DEPECHE: Members of an international cybercrime syndicate active in Europe and Asia apprehended five members of an international organised criminal group (OCG) have been arrested and three of them convicted so far as a result of a complex operation led by law enforcement agencies from Europe and Asia, with the active support of Europol’s…
EU-Vanuatu: towards a new agreement
The European Union and the Republic of Vanuatu held their fourth Political Dialogue in Brussels this week. The meeting was chaired on Vanuatu’s side by the Prime Minister, Charlot Salwai Tabismasmas and on the EU side by the European External Action Service’s Asia Pacific Managing Director, Gunnar Wiegand. During his visit, the Prime Minister also…
US-Russia: demining
US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin are scheduled to speak on the phone Saturday in their first conversation since Trump took office, an administration official told CNN. Trump has vowed to have better relations with Russia than his predecessor. This month, he suggested he would lift sanctions imposed by the Obama…
Philadelphia: PM May on EU
Amazing speech by Theresa May in US. Makes you proud to be British — Boris Johnson (@BorisJohnson) January 26, 2017 “…Nations, accountable to their populations – “deriving” as the Declaration of Independence puts it “their just powers from the consent of the governed” – can choose to join international organisations, or not. They can choose…
USA diplomacy recast
The entire senior level of management officials at the US State department, has resigned,makring an impressive exodus of civil servants – Clinton’s loyalists of ‘ante-Trump era’ in foreign policy. Mr Trump’s selection for secretary of state, Rex Tillerson, was present in the department’s offices in the Foggy Bottom neighborhood of Washington DC, when the…
Migrant flows pressure on Europe to raise
This week European Commission put forward a package of ‘new’ proposals footed with 200 million euro to address problems of migration from North Africa. “It is essential that we all do more, all, meaning all together… and to suggest concrete actions that can be done and that can bring some positive results with an envelope…
Trump to control US-Mexico border
Today President Trump is expected to sign an executive order to start a construction of a wall between the USA and Mexico as part of realisation of his campaign programme. Big day planned on NATIONAL SECURITY tomorrow. Among many other things, we will build the wall! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 25, 2017 Apparently…
EU-Libya: still no solution for migrants
On 24 January 2017, the High Representative Federica Mogherini met in Brussels with the United Nations Head of the UN Support Mission in Libya, Martin Kobler. Two top ranking international civil servants Federica Mogherini and Martin Kobler exchanged views on the political and security situation in Libya, and on the regional initiatives to support a…
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