Press-News


September 06 2010

Belarus opposition leader calls for support from EU after death of persecuted journalist (Andrew Rettman at EU Observer)


August 31 2010

Chinese police hunt journalists for reporting bad news (Wang Huazhong and Zhao Ruixue in China Daily)


August 28 2010

Germany wants fines for employers snooping on Facebook (Valentina Pop at EU Observer)


August 22 2010

German politicians plan to force Google to get citizens' consent before Street View hits 20 German cities. (The Local)


August 20 2010

US federal judge dismisses piracy charges against six Somalis picked up at sea after gun battle (Katerina Kerr at IFW)


August 19 2010

EU Executive will make sure France breaks no rules in expelling Roma (Leigh Phillips at EU Observer)


August 12 2010

Rescue services in Estonia updated with Swiss funds (Andreas Keiser in Tallinn, swissinfo.ch (adapted from German by Urs Geiser))


August 04 2010

Italy - Libya pact cuts irregular migrants by half (Leigh Phillips at EU Observer)


July 30 2010

Endgame in Afghanistan: the futility of war (The Guardian)


July 29 2010

Technology and society: virtually insecure (The Financial Times)


July 28 2010

US security chiefs tricked in social networking experiment (The Guardian)

'Botnet hacker' arrested in Slovenia (BBC)


July 26 2010

Report reveals top secret America (The Washington Post)


July 15 2010

IT expert at MI6 tries to sell secrets to Dutch (The Independent)


July 08 2010

Britain scraps anti-terror police stop and search powers (The Guardian)

EU Home Affairs commisioner recommends deal to give USA access to European bank data (EU Observer)


July 05 2010

Pakistani special forces train with Chinese "sky wolves" on the North West border of China (Li Xiaokun, China Daily)


July 02 2010

Cyprus Justice Minister admits judge who bailed Chris Metsos took 'wrong decision' (Stefanos Evripidou, Cyprus Mail)

British Attorney General may re-open investigation into death of UN weapons inspector (Miles Goslett, Daily Mail)


June 29 2010

"Deep cover spy" Christopher Metsos bailed in Cyprus (Helena Smith, Athens, for The Guardian)

Russian spy case court papers read like spoof film Burn After Reading (Jeff Stein at The Washington Post)


June 28 2010

Russian fisheries official threw 10 million rubles into the road when police chased his Cadillac in Moscow (Nikolaus von Twickel in The Moscow Times)


June 25 2010

US military supply firm branded "fugitive from justice" by US federal prosecutors (Damian Brett at IFW)


June 18 2010

Iranian air cargo and shipping firms banned in EU (Damian Brett at IFW)


June 15 2010

UK cyber police budget slashed (The Register)


June 13 2010

Berlusconi draft law to stop state prosecutors using wiretaps is approved by Italian Senate (Stacy Meichtry and Margherita Stancati at The Wall Street Journal)


June 12 2010

Mayor of Moscow orders city officials to report every offered bribe (Luke Harding in Moscow for The Guardian)


June 11 2010

Somali pirates free the British freighter they used as a warship (Sofia Echo)


June 08 2010

US doctors accused of complicity in CIA torture     (Robert Fox at The First Post)


June 07 2010

Polish credit cards stolen after Smolensk air crash (thenews.pl)


May 30 2010

Enough is Enough: the new campaign against high seas piracy (Katerina Kerr at IFW)


May 28 2010

Maoist train attack kills dozens in eastern India (BBC)


May 26 2010

US Missiles in Poland (Xinhua)

Smolensk air crash: if the pilots had been well trained, they wouldn’t have run the risk (Rzeczpospolita)


May 12 2010

Goldman Sachs sued for illegal database access (Dark Reading)


May 10 2010

President Medvedev investigates after Vera Trifonova, 53, dies after four months in custody (The Moscow Times)


May 08 2010

Security firms paid 23 million pounds to guard UK police stations (The Daily Mail)


May 06 2010

Hacker develops multi-platform rootkit for ATMs (Computer World)

Russian forces storm tanker seized by Somali pirates (BBC)


May 05 2010

Britain's SAS furious about exposure of top secret missions (The Independent)


April 30 2010

Murder trail from Austria leads back to Chechnya (The Moscow Times)


April 28 2010

Irish politician wants to join Ryanair two months after quitting as EU internal market commissioner (Arthur Beesley, Irish Times, in Brussels)


April 27 2010

EU forensic scientists for Afghanistan (Valentina Pop at EU Observer)


April 24 2010

Communist Party of China fights corruption by tracking families of party officials (China Daily)


April 23 2010

Barroso warns against undermining anti-corruption agency in Romania (Valentina Pop at EU Observer)


April 22 2010

Somali pirate threat to blow up tanker Samho Dream (Reuters)


April 21 2010

China expects to lift "obsolete and discriminatory" ban on foreigners with HIV (China Daily)

Jailed lawyer's YouTube appeal to Russian president (The St Petersburg Times)


April 20 2010

Downing Street bugged by spies from 1963 to 1977 (Richard Norton Taylor in The Guardian)


April 18 2010

Ex-president and four executives of Blackwater Worldwide indicted on weapons charges (Reuters)


April 17 2010

Judge Baltasar Garzón accused of taking a bribe from Banco Santander (The Times)


April 16 2010

Hewlett Packard executives suspected of bribery in Moscow (Nikolaus von Twickel in The Moscow Times)

Latest evidence in Polish presidential plane crash (RT Moscow)


April 14 2010

Quatari diplomat in airline bomb scare was on prison visit to al-Qaeda sleeper agent (AP - USA TODAY)


April 13 2010

Ukraine to give up stockpile of highly enriched uranium by 2012 (BBC)


April 12 2010

Car bomb outside MI5 base (The Belfast Telegraph)


April 11 2010

Taliban release video of captured French journalists (Le Figaro)


April 10 2010

Polish President killed in plane crash in Russia (Reuters)


April 09 2010

Pirates demand ransom for oil tanker bound from Iraq to USA (BBC News)


April 07 2010

Riot deaths and state of emergency in Kyrgyzstan (Institute for War and Peace Reporting)

Dutch marines storm hijacked German container ship (The Independent)

Computer espionage on Indian Defence Ministry traced to China (John Markoff and David Barboza, New York Times)


April 06 2010

EU relaxes visa rules for passport-free zone (EU Observer)

Video shows US Apache crew shooting unarmed Iraqis and Reuters newsmen in 2007 (The First Post)


April 04 2010

Journalist Anat Kam, 23, charged with treason in Israel after Israeli generals accused of illegal assassinations (The Guardian)


April 03 2010

Putin will help us get nuclear power, says Chavez (The Times)


April 02 2010

Daimler AG fined USD 185 million after admitting international bribery (BBC News)

Bloody Easter for German troops in Afghanistan (Die Welt)

Massacre in the woods that brought war to Moscow metro (The Guardian)


April 01 2010

Iran to hold its own nuclear disarmament conference (The Guardian)

After suicide bombers kill 12 in Dagestan, 2 suspects die in car blast (Reuters Africa)

Internet Explorer 6.0 "is a security risk" (Zen Internet Monthly Newsletter)


March 31 2010

Hostage released after 12 years in jungle (The Guardian)


March 30 2010

Australian PM criticises trial secrecy and "very harsh" sentence in Chinese Rio Tinto bribery trial (Telegraph.co.uk)

Libya ends visa row with Europe (EU Observer)


March 29 2010

Casualty list in terror attacks on Moscow metro published (Kommersant)

Suicide bombers strike in the heart of Moscow (The Moscow Times)


March 28 2010

Britain's defence industry 'could shrink by 70%' (The Sunday Telegraph)

IKEA's man in Russia tells how they opened IKEA Khimki, in the "chaotic reality" of Russia (The St Petersburg Times)

Russian TV interview with retired IKEA chief Lennart Dahlgren (Vedomosti)


March 27 2010

Spain close to charging campaigning judge Garzón (Daniel Woolls, Associated Press)


March 26 2010

One pirate killed but six Somalis freed after Pakistani captain refuses to testify (BBC)

Russian Interior Minister urges police reform (Alexander Bratersky, Moscow Times)


March 25 2010

Anti-terror police checking internet cafes in London (BBC)

Israeli cargo hijacked by pirates outside EU Navfor patrol area. (marinelink.com)


March 24 2010

Alstom board members arrested by UK SFO on Swiss warrants. (Karl West, Daily Mail)

Deutsche Bank and BNP Paribas named after London insider trading raids. (Daily Telegraph)


March 23 2010

Dubai killers' cloned passports: UK expels Israeli diplomat. (BBC News)

Irish journalist attempts to arrest Tony Blair in EU Parliament. (EU Observer)


March 22 2010

Dstl to become science and technology hub within UK MoD (MoD News)


March 21 2010

Personal health data compromised in Canada (Jamie Komarnicki in the Calgary Herald 18Mar10)

UN Chief: "No other alternatives" to negotiations (UN News Service)

Ambulance software downgraded life or death calls (Sunday Telegraph)

Iranians train Taliban to use roadside bombs (The Sunday Times)


March 20 2010

Swiss Bank staff will face German investigators (Reuters)

Thousands of Russians demonstrate against Putin (Die Welt)

Old Allies to March in Red Square (The Times)


March 19 2010

Dutch Defence Ministry Defends Homosexual Soldiers (The First Post )

Estonian defence minister warns of more cyberattacks (IDG News Service )


March 18 2010

Shipwrecked ex-London drug squad detective jailed 22 years for smuggling (BBC)

Immigrant walks 16 km into the Channel Tunnel (The Sun )

Transport workers launch anti-piracy campaign in Berlin (International Freighting Weekly )


March 17 2010

Italian police use Facebook to trap mafia suspect (BBC)

German container ship under fire outruns pirate boats (EU Navfor Somalia)


March 16 2010

Police in 6 West European States Swoop on Russians and Georgians (The Guardian )

Pentagon official linked to Jason Bourne-style assassination network (New York Times )

British 'e-Borders' traveller surveillance scheme may still be Illegal under EU law (UK Parliament )

Two charged in cartoonist inquiry (The Irish Times)

Blinded soldier trains to 'see' through his tongue (UK MoD)


March 15 2010

The training camp for teenage Taliban (The Times)

Al Qaeda suspect worked at US nuclear plants (The Philadelphia Inquirer)

Army training exercises cut by a third to save money (The Daily Telegraph)


March 14 2010

Panic in the streets after Georgia TV fake invasion report (BBC)

New Courses in Nuclear Safety Training (World Nuclear News)

Troyak bounces back (Computer World and TechEye.net)


March 13 2010

30 dead after suicide bombers attack Kandahar (BBC)


March 12 2010

Thousands in protests against Thai Government (The Times)

Air cargo security confusion (International Freighting Weekly )

Suicide bombers kill 'at least 39' in Pakistan (BBC)


March 11 2010

US sushi restaurant raid (Los Angeles Times)

Appeal Against European Arrest Warrant (Belfast Telegraph)


March 10 2010

UN: Half food aid to Somalia goes to "corrupt cartel" (New York Times)

The all American way (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung)

Iran's President Ahmedinejad in Afghanistan for talks (BBC)

Zimbabwe: political and security threats to transition (International Crisis Group)

Biden condemns Israel over homes plan (The Guardian)


March 09 2010

US Coast Guard: 3 per cent cuts scare (DoD Buzz)

Boeing 747 would have survived the Flight 253 bomb (BBC)

Iran's ex-President Banisadr: "People want regime change" (world security network)

North Korea creates medium-range rocket division (Kommersant)

Passenger data deal vital for catching terrorists, says US (euobserver)

EU passports unsafe, says expert (euobserver)

In the Nigerian killing fields (The Times)


March 08 2010

Can America count on Europe anymore? (National Security Journal)

Cybersecurity experts: the FBI wants you (Technewsworld)

Yanukovych in Moscow talks (Kommersant)

At least 500 dead in ethnic violence in Nigeria (Le Monde)

Cyberwar declared as China hunts for the West's intelligence secrets (The Times)

My fears for Nigeria by former Head of State Buhari (Nigerian News)


March 07 2010

JuD Chief: India waged war on Pakistan by constructing illegal dams (The Times of India)

Dmitry Medvedev's Russia still feels the cold hand of Putin (The Sunday Telegraph)

Past imperfect, present tense (The Economist)


March 06 2010

Gordon Brown makes surprise Afghanistan visit (The Daily Telegraph)

After Marja, "Kandahar will be next," Mullen says (Soldiers)

Plenty of false notes (Cumhuriyet)

A diplomatic mistake over Armenia (The Guardian)


March 05 2010

Ukraine’s Yanukovych visits Russia to mend ties (BBC )

Gorbachev: NATO may become different organisation (Kommersant )

Armenian genocide: freeze in US-Turkish relations (Le Figaro )

Brown defends basis for Iraq war (The Independent )

Polish Mi-17 helicopters for Afghanistan (Ministry of National Defence - Polish Army)

Tank scandal in Polish army (Rzeczpospolita)