The United States was represented at the march by Ambassador to France Jane Hartley. There are no known reports of members of Congress having attended the march.

Speaking to NBC from Paris, where he was attending a counter-terrorism summit and the march, Holder said: “That is the thing that I think keeps me up most at night, this concern about the lone wolf who goes undetected.”

The Obama administration was criticized on social media Sunday for the lack of high-ranking U.S. officials at the unity rally in Paris, where more than 40 world leaders marched in commemoration of the lives lost to terrorism last week.

Attorney General Eric Holder was in Paris for talks on combatting terrorism and was scheduled to attend the rally. He was replaced by U.S. Ambassador to France Jane Hartley, according to reports.

The unseemly scramble of ministers and politicians to fly to Paris on Sunday perfectly encapsulates the current situation of Israeli politics. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wasn’t even planning to go, citing security issues, but when it transpired that his main rivals for right-wing votes, ministers Avigdor Lieberman and Naftali Bennett as well as Eli Yishai, the leader of a new right-wing Haredi party, were all flying, security was swept aside and a special El Al plane chartered.

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Ergebnis der Umfrage des internationalen Schriftstellerverbandes PEN: Befürchtungen zu Überwachung durch den Spionageapparat und damit einhergehender Selbstzensur in demokratischen und nichtdemokratischen Staaten sind gleich hoch.

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In der Kurdenmetropole Erbil weisen deutsche Truppen seit September kurdische Peschmerga-Kämpfer in die Nutzung von Deutschland gelieferter Waffen und anderer Militärgüter ein.

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Von der Leyen traf am Sonntag in der irakischen Hauptstadt Bagdad zunächst Staatspräsident Fuad Massum. Anschließend reiste sie ins nordirakische Erbil weiter, wo in wenigen Wochen 100 deutsche Militärausbilder stationiert werden sollen.

Die NSA übt diesen Druck ganz direkt aus, etwa indem ihr Chef Konteradmiral Michael Rogers sagt, dass die Attacke in Frankreich „das Leben für die NSA sehr viel schwerer macht“ und mehr Überwachung von potenziellen „einsamen Wölfen“ benötigen wird.

Was einen Haufen mehr Geld und Macht erfordern wird, was der Kongress ihnen mit größter Wahrscheinlichkeit geben wird, was nahelegt, dass das Leben für die NSA um vieles leichter werden wird, was sie nur nicht zugeben wollen.

Facebook users have called for the murder of Haaretz journalists, responding to a call by a right-leaning politician who wants an investigation into Haaretz’s editors on suspicion of “defeatist propaganda” under Statute 103 of Israel’s penal code.

Die 17 Ermordeten sollen für die Verschärfung der inneren Sicherheit herhalten. O-Ton Thomas de Maizière, deutscher Bundesinnenminister (CDU):

„Wer jetzt ein europäisches Fluggastdatenabkommen ablehnt, weiß nicht, was die Stunde geschlagen hat.“

Der Mann hat den Schuss nicht gehört:

„We need to work more closely with Internet companies to guarantee the reporting and if possible removal of all content that amounts to an apology of terrorism or calls for violence and hatred,“ he said.

Verstärkte Kontrollen an den Schengen-Außengrenzen, ein Fluggastdatenabkommen und stärkere Zusammenarbeit mit US-Geheimdiensten: Nach den Anschlägen von Paris setzen die Innenminister dabei vor allem auf Tempo.

Charlie Hebdo supporters are gathering to march through Paris to pay tribute to the victims of the terror attacks that shook France and killed 17 people, including journalists and police. Numerous world leaders have joined the rally, which is expected to draw hundreds of thousands.

US President Barack Obama will not be attending an anti-terrorism unity rally in Paris to commemorate victims of the recent terrorist attacks in the French capital, but did not specify why the American leader would miss the event, TASS reported referring to Agence France-Presse.

Downing Street said the Prime Minister and president will also be discussing counter-terrorism, a week after the Charlie Hebdo massacre in Paris, as well as a range of other international issues including the threat from ISIL (Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant) in Syria and Iraq, Russia‘s destabilisation of Ukraine and the global economic outlook.

President Obama will announce new initiatives next week designed to bolster online security and improve access to cyberspace, White House officials said Saturday.

Cohen, by no means a war-crazed neocon, is ready for a blood purge, and a good chunk of the political class in this country and Western Europe is right behind him. The actual perpetrators of the horrific act of murder are soon to be forgotten as the hunt for the „enablers“ and „fellow travelers“ is taken up with glee. And the hunters will range far beyond their home terrain as „links“ are discovered in the far corners of the globe: indeed, with this act, the mysterious „al-Qaeda“ makes its reappearance in our collective nightmares. That amorphous ghost, which seems to be everywhere and nowhere, will be chased down from Toulouse to Timbuktu – and then on to Tehran, as the West gears up for a fresh rampage across the war-scarred Middle East.

After his visit to Germany, Kerry is due fly to India for a trade fair and then to Geneva, where he will see Iran‘s foreign minister on Wednesday to discuss the Iranian nuclear program.

Following Sirisena’s surprising victory in the presidential election, and his official swearing-in ceremony on Friday night, January 9, the 63-year-old veteran politician undertook not to intimidate the media or block websites anymore.