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Is Belgium’s Interior Minister Copying Trump?

( May 2nd, 2016) Interior Minister Jan Jambon arrived for a meeting between the prime minister, a delegation of the victims of the Brussels attacks and the organizers of a march against terrorism and hate in the Brussels city center Sunday. “A significant part of the...

Google says its site is ‘partially dangerous’

( April 25th, 2016) This news is not confidence-building, especially because Google is so huge and pervasive. Using paper, old-fashioned typewriters, land-line telephones and libraries with books looks increasingly attractive…. The company says that Google.com is a...

U.S. officials’ requests for Apple user data rises

(April 25th, 2016) Apple has released figures indicating that U.S. authorities asked for user data from Apple accounts 1,015 times during the second half of 2015. The requests pertain to information on such services as iMessages, e-mails, photos and device backups....

Congressman asks U.S. probe of cellphone security gap

(April 25th, 2016) U.S. Congressman Ted Lieu called for a federal investigation of a gap in security that lets people get into others’ phones to record calls, texts and locations. The Guardian reports that security flaws within the system that brokers connections,...

NATO, Russian envoys meet for first time in 2 years

(April 25th, 2016) Ambassadors from Russia and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization met last Wednesday for the first time in nearly two years, as continued Russian attacks on eastern Ukraine and saber-rattling in the Baltic maintained high military tensions between...

Japanese spokesman discusses BGF-G7 Summit Initiative issues

( April 25th, 2016) In a wide-ranging conversation on April 18 with Harvard Prof. Thomas Patterson of The Boston Global Forum,  Yasuhisa Kawamura, Director-General for Press and Public Policy of the Japanese government, discussed Japan’s hopes and concerns as the G7...