Good morning, everyone. I would like to start with a huge thank you to the Boston Global Forum for putting on this conference together. I would like to start with the fact that the horrors of the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine mark a turning point in German...
Former Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk’s Speech at the BGF Conference “Rebuilding Ukraine”
April 29, 2022 Hello everyone. So pleasured, and I am really honored to address your forum. You know frankly I didn't expect that we are to discuss the one of the biggest; actually, this is the biggest war after the Second World War in Ukraine, but it happened....
France launches app for terror-attack alerts
(June 13th, 2016) The French government has launched an app to alert users to terror attacks. The new service comes as the Euro 2016 soccer championship was about to get underway. The Interior Ministry app, called SAIP, flashes a warning on users’ mobile phones...
Turkish leader’s dictatorship trend kills chances for E.U. membership by ’20
Turkey’s increasingly dictatorial president, Recep Erdogan, has destroyed his nation’s chances of joining the European Union by 2020, as some had hoped, for pushing through a new law aimed a destroying parliamentary opposition to Mr. Erdoğan’s ruling...
Poll suggests Australians see U.S. Asia-Pacific power waning
(June 13th, 2016) A poll of Australians suggest that most believe that China has become the most influential nation in the Asia-Pacific region and that more want stronger ties with the rising superpower than with the U.S., The Guardian reported. Enthusiasm for a...
Japan, India, U.S. set naval exercises off Okinawa
(June 13th, 2016) In the context of China’s repeated incursions into Japanese territorial waters in the East China Sea and attempts to dominate the South China Sea by military force, Japan, India and the United States will hold major trilateral naval exercises off the...
Russia continuing buildup on its western border
(June 13th, 2016) An increasingly militaristic and aggressive Russia is building new military sites along what the Kremlin sees as its western frontline in a growing confrontation with NATO. At the same time the NATO alliance is staging major military exercises and...
Hackers get into Mitsubishi car
(June 13th, 2016) The Guardian reports that team of security researchers are calling on Mitsubishi to recall at least 100,000 Outlander hybrid cars after exposing a security breach that let “the hackers to remotely turn off the car’s alarm system, control the lights...