AI voice cloning is used in a huge heist in the U.A.E., according to Dubai investigators, amidst warnings about cybercriminal use of the new technology. In early 2020, a bank manager in the United Arab Emirates received a call from a man whose voice he recognized—a director at a company with whom he’d spoken before. […]
After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Belarus was the rare former Soviet state that remained strategically aligned with the Russian Federation. In 1999, Russia and Belarus reached an agreement to become a “union state,” which aimed to create a USSR-like federation with a similar government, currency, flag, and army. Over the past two decades, the […]
In late September, the European Court of Auditors issued a damning report criticizing the ineffectiveness of the European Union’s anti-corruption initiatives in Ukraine. In order to make genuine progress, the report concluded that the European Commission must work with EU member states to prevent Ukrainian oligarchs and others suspected of grand corruption from traveling or using their […]
On October 11, relatives and civil activists gathered in Simferopol to support the victims of political repression – prisoners of the so-called “Krasnogvardeyska group”, who received real prison sentences from the fake Russia-controlled “Crimean garrison military court”, up to twenty years in prison for each. On this day in the Military Court of Appeal in […]
The Trans Adriatic Pipeline (TAP) will carry eight billion cubic meters (bcm) of natural gas from Azerbaijan to the European markets by the end of 2021, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said in a quarterly report. The Gas Market Report for the fourth quarter of this year provided a general overview of global gas trade, including a […]
Most also think social media companies, and the people that use them, bear a good deal of blame for the situation. But few are very concerned that they themselves might be responsible, according to a new poll from The Pearson Institute and The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. Ninety-five percent of Americans identified misinformation […]
With gas prices surging, Members of the European Parliament have called for an investigation into market manipulation from state and non-state actors, and into the EU carbon market speculation to measure the impact that both factors are having on prices. During the debate between the European Parliament, Commission and Council in plenary on October 6, […]
Amid disunity over the way forward on European defence, EU leaders discussed on Tuesday night (5 October) whether the bloc should enhance its capacity to act independently and/or strenghten its partnership with NATO, but with no clear result. In the aftermath of the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan, a US submarine pact with Australia that enraged […]
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has described Iran’s allegations about the presence of the Israeli forces in the country’s territories as “groundless”, amid the rise of tensions between the two Caspian littoral states. “We show good intentions. But this does not mean that we will accept groundless accusations against us. I say it here in Jabrayil, on the […]
The rise to power of the Taliban in August 2021 has raised a number of questions about how the world community should deal with the organization, an ardent proponent of Islam that calls for an all-out Sharia system to be established in Afghanistan. As a case in point here, many experts and media outlets refer […]