MOSCOW (AP)— Russian President Vladimir Putin met Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday for talks that focused on the situation in Syria, amid concerns that Moscow could soon provide Damascus with advanced missiles. Read the rest of this entry »
Here is a economic risk table for countries across the world. Read the rest of this entry »
FROM THE ECONOMIST INTELLIGENCE UNIT
In early May, the UK inked a landmark agreement with its overseas territories in the Caribbean, which will make it more difficult for UK citizens to evade tax by holding accounts in offshore Caribbean financial centres. The agreement applies to British Overseas Territories (BOTs) and Crown dependencies and was voluntary in nature, although the UK government had been strongly promoting it. Read the rest of this entry »
The Syrian president still has a chance to achieve military gains before Russia and the West intervene with a political solution. In any case, his staying power hasn’t run its course. Read the rest of this entry »
RTL: Promises of millions, a new face and detailed instructions on a double-agent conspiracy in Moscow. Bearing the hallmarks of a Cold War spy thriller, Russia’s counterintelligence agency says it nabbed a CIA officer trying to flip a Russian operative. Read the rest of this entry »
China has denied claims from the US that it is using espionage to acquire technologies to fuel its fast-paced military modernisation programme. Read the rest of this entry »
Head of domestic intelligence urges watchfulness
Hans-Georg Maassen, head of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution, comments on Jihad fighters from Germany, the limits of intelligence work and racism within the agency. Read the rest of this entry »
MOSCOW (AP)— Secretary of State John Kerry is making his case to Russian President Vladimir Putin for Russia to take a tougher stance on Syria at a time when Israel’s weekend air strikes against the beleaguered Mideast nation have added an unpredictable factor to the talks.
Kerry arrived Tuesday in Moscow for talks with the most powerful ally of Syrian President Bashar Assad’s regime. Read the rest of this entry »
Genetic material from a female has been discovered on one or possibly both of the rudimentary explosive devices used in the Boston Marathon attacks, prompting the FBI to widen its search for possible co-conspirators in the attack that killed three and injured hundreds on April 15, theLos Angeles Times reported on Monday. Read the rest of this entry »
WASHINGTON LA TIMES– President Obama softened his threat to Syria over its possible use of chemical weapons, telling reporters that if conclusive proof of such activity emerges, he “would rethink a range” of retaliatory options that might not include military action. Read the rest of this entry »
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