After years of relentless pressure by activists and writers — both inside and outside of prison — solitary confinement is solidly on the national political radar. Thanks in no small measure to the hunger strikes organized by prisoners in California, most notably in 2011 and 2013, momentum around the issue has been building steadily, and even making its way into mainstream politics. In January, President Obama issued an executive order banning solitary for juveniles, and urging limits on the use of solitary for adults.

Turkish police have attacked people during Nowruz festivities held by Kurds in the town of Silopi in defiance of a ban on mass gatherings amid Ankara’s crackdown on Kurdish militants.

Betriebssystem („content management system“) WordPress: Rat und Gegenmaßnahmen gegen „Black SEO“ (negative Beeinflussung anderer Webseiten gegenüber Google), flächendeckenden „Daten-Abbau“, Manipulation und Spionage.

Obtaining a company‘s source code makes it radically easier to find security flaws and vulnerabilities for surveillance and intelligence-gathering operations.

Mehrere für Mobilgeräte und Sicherheit verantwortliche Mitarbeiter des Konzerns überlegen einem Bericht zufolge, wie sie sich einer möglichen Zwangsanordnung zur iPhone-Entsperrbeihilfe entziehen können.

Never mind the threat of nuclear war, asteroid and comet impacts, a super volcanic eruption, robot overlords, or a global pandemic…no these aren’t all that threatening according to Professor Raymond Pierrehumbert of Oxford, one of the founders of “Real Climate”. No, it’s “climate change”.

– For the asylum process: 200 Greek asylum service case workers, 400 asylum experts from other Member States deployed by EASO and 400 interpreters
– For the appeals process: 10 Appeals Committees made up of 30 members from Greece as well as 30 judges with expertise in asylum law from other Member States and 30 interpreters
– For the return process: 25 Greek readmission officers, 250 Greek police officers as well as 50 return experts deployed by Frontex. 1,500 police officers seconded on the basis of bilateral police cooperation arrangements (costs covered by FRONTEX)
– Security: 1,000 security staff/army

According to data from the UN High Commissioner for Refugees the number of registered Syrian refugees are 2,715,789 as of 6. March 2016.

But the numbers refer to registration accumulating since 2012.

But not all of these registered Syrian refugees have stayed in Turkey. More than a million of them have left Turkey for Europe?

According to UNHCR:

1,000,573 refugees arrived in Europe via Greece and Italy alone in 2015, a total of 856,723 reached Greece from Turkey.

(22.2.2012) The Pentagon’s Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) is the lead agency in the covert ‘war on terror’ in Somalia, although the CIA also has a strong regional presence.

The US has been carrying out extensive covert military operations inside Somalia since 2001, as a major six-part investigation by the US Army Times recently revealed.

„21 Shebaab militants were killed,“ Obonyo said, during what he described as a „fierce engagement“.

Last week, the Kenyan army said it thwarted an attack on a military camp also at Afmadhow, killing 19 militants.

A group of Marines from the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit, or MEU, will add to the U.S. forces already in Iraq battling Islamic State, it said.

The exercise, to be held in the Minch strait between the Inner and Outer Hebrides in October, will focus mainly on the use of unmanned and autonomous maritime craft – both on the surface and under the waves – and air surveillance. The focus will be on areas such as anti-submarine warfare and mine countermeasures as well as intelligence gathering.

It is the same President of the United States – the New York Times reported in 2012 in an investigative article, which it confirmed in a subsequent April 25, 2015 article, who approved the continuously updated “kill list.”

Today, drone strikes are a settled policy, but that does not mean Americans should accept everything a former CIA director tells us about them.

A new Defence plan proposes that billions be spent on bringing drones to Australia. But as the War on Terror has demonstrated, the pilotless killing machines are anything but precise. Buying into the technology will cost Australia more than the hefty purchase price, writes Alex Edney-Browne.