Japanese police have been using a system to find whether facial images from surveillance cameras and social media can be matched with database images of people who have been arrested in the past, police officials said, a move that could raise concerns about privacy violations.
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The new Eastern Mediterranean crisis
Earlier this month, six boats carrying Syrian and Lebanese migrants set sail from northern Lebanon and attempted to dock in Cyprus. That might not sound like much, yet it is six times more than the total number of migrant vessels that have embarked for Cyprus from Lebanon over the last …
Read More »Evacuating Incirlik airbase could mark end to US-Turkey alliance
While Turkish-Western relations have been overshadowed by clouds of differences over the past few years, Greek media recently reported that the US eyes relocating its forces from Turkey’s Incirlik airbase to another base in one of the Greek islands. Washington Examiner news website, quoting Senator of Wisconsin who chairs Senate …
Read More »Military build-up | Turkish forces withdraw their heavy weapons from frontlines to Tal Abyad, as regime reinforcement arrive in northern Raqqa
Reliable sources have informed SOHR that Turkish forces and their proxy factions withdrew part of their heavy weapons from the frontlines with SDF in rural Tel Abyad and Ain Issa, north of Raqqa.
Read More »Extractive imperialism and resistance in Burkina Faso
Canadian company Tajiri Resources announced on August 20 that it had entered into an agreement with Sahara Natural Resources to begin drilling in Burkina Faso at the company’s exploration program on the Reo Gold project, located 130 kilometres west of the capital, Ouagadougou.
Read More »Assessing China and Russia’s Moves in the Middle East
Recent news that China and Iran are close to finalizing an economic and security partnership, initially proposed by Beijing in January 2016, has renewed anxieties among some U.S. observers that Washington is gradually ceding the Middle East to its principal strategic competitor. Commenters raised similar concerns after the January 2020 …
Read More »Iran's Missile Violations: Where is the International Community?
“The important point about these missiles is that they are fully equipped with homing. It means they are of the fire-and-forget type. We fire the missile and the data is on the missile itself, it has various navigation systems built in.” — Iran’s Navy chief, Adm. Hossein Khanzadi, Associated Press, …
Read More »FBI Director Warns of 'Drumbeat' of Russian Disinformation, Stoking Trump's Ire
FBI Director Christopher Wray on Thursday warned lawmakers that Russia is not letting up in its efforts to sway the outcome of the November presidential election by trying to hurt the campaign of Democratic candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden – testimony that appears not to be sitting well …
Read More »China Sends Warplanes Over Taiwan as US Envoy Visits
China sent almost 20 warplanes into Taiwan’s airspace in an unusually large show of force as a response to a senior U.S. official’s visit to the self-governing island.
Read More »Assad loses part of his ground forces in Syria, Hezbollah withdraws
Lebanese politicians predict the imminent departure of the Shiite military-political organization Hezbollah from Syria, where it has been fighting since 2012 on the side of President Bashar al-Assad, learned BulgarianMilitary.com citing local sources.
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