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...Denmark’s intelligence service late on Thursday said there was no direct connection between the arrests in that country and those in Germany....
...The three-way negotiations between CIA director Bill Burns, David Barnea, head of Mossad, Israel’s intelligence agency, and Qatari officials are focusing on a three-day humanitarian pause in Israel’s offensive...
...Today’s top stories The US Federal Reserve announces its decision on interest rates at 2pm ET/7pm London time today. Check back here for details and reaction....
...West Coast Editor Richard Waters does his best to explain....
...Aleksander Bortnikov, the head of the FSB, which is the biggest security agency....
...Among those facing sanctions is Saud al-Qahtani, the Saudi official closest to Prince Mohammed to be implicated in the Khashoggi murder....
...Peter Hennessy, the historian and modern-day chronicler of Whitehall, oversaw Case’s doctorate on British intelligence agencies of the cold war period....
...Many French cinema owners, who are putting pressure on Cannes to resist Netflix et al, see the streamers’ disruptive attitude as an incursion into their territory....
...To give the intelligence agencies the best shot at intercepting the information therefore requires a wide range of collection methods....
...Which country’s credit agency ratings were not among those penalised by Brussels this week? Canada, Turkey or Argentina?...
...A 2009 report by Lithuania’s parliament stated that the Baltic state’s intelligence agency had helped the CIA set up a prison but found no evidence that suspects were interrogated in the country....
...At the hearing, Republican committee chair Richard Burr threw his support behind Ms Haspel, calling her the “most prepared nominee in the [agency’s] 70 year history”....
...Ten years on from the New Atheism campaign of ultra-reductionists Richard Dawkins et al, Rees, while stating he is an atheist, declares that he shares a sense of “mystery” with those who believe in God....
...Democratic Congressman Al Green of Texas added that the president had “committed an impeachable act”....
...It contained added protections, such as an ombudsman in the US that Europeans could appeal to if they thought their data were being hoovered up unfairly by the intelligence agencies....
...A potential shift of the world's energy system away from oil is one of the central issues for Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia....
...I’d set up and capitalise a European debt management agency to create ESBies (the European safe bonds of Brunnermeier et al). I’d set up a eurozone growth capital fund for fast-growing companies....
...The chief argument is a moral one: giving robots the agency to kill humans would trample over a red line that should never be crossed. There are other concerns....
...“Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was a very skilful plotter: a manipulator with huge ambition, ability and determination,” said Richard Barrett, former head of counter-terrorism operations at the British intelligence...
...Serious Sweet, by AL Kennedy, Cape, RRP£17.99 Set over the course of a single day, and travelling from Piccadilly to Chiswick via Knightsbridge, AL Kennedy’s latest novel is an ambitious, perambulatory...
...John McCain, himself a torture victim, may have spoken in favour of the report but Richard Burr, who will replace her next year as chair of the Senate intelligence committee, said that “the only motive here...
...At about 1am on Sunday morning a man was walking towards a central Copenhagen synagogue when he opened fire at the police....
...He later told news agency AFP: “They fired on us from the outside. It was the same intention as Charlie Hebdo except they didn't manage to get in.”...
...The latest case, Google v Joffe et al, involves a class action suit stemming from the company’s illicit collection of snippets of information from WiFi networks in homes that its StreetView cars were passing...
...These include the question of whether Al Gore really deserves the ridicule he often gets for claiming a central role in the development of the internet (no, according to Isaacson); whether the internet was...
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