Even Singapore's ruling party struggles to plan for everything.

Singapore

2019-08-01 / www.economist.com

Singapore's next elections need not be held until early 2021, but it is likely to take place sooner. It is also probable that the People's Action Party (PAP), in power since 1959 (when Singapore was still a British colony), will ...

Rand Corp : comment abattre la Russie

Russia

2019-05-21 / www.voltairenet.org

Contraindre l'adversaire à s'étendre excessivement pour le déséquilibrer et l'abattre : un plan contre la Russie élaboré par la Rand Corporation, le plus influent think tank étasunien qui, avec un staff de milliers d'experts, se présente comme la plus fiable ...

Why Iran Objects to a Muslim Brotherhood Terrorist Designation

Muslim Brotherhood

2019-05-16 / www.investigativeproject.org

News that the Trump administration is considering designating the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization drew objections from Iran despite the religious differences between the Sunni and Shia strongholds. Nevertheless, they both share financial alliances, radical ideologies, global domination dreams ...

France and Japan's Growing Convergence

Strategy

2019-04-25 / www.thediplomat.com

There is a paradox in France-Japan relations.Both countries share many positions and have repeatedly expressed the same concerns about the global challenges facing the world, Japan is a major strategic partner of France in Asia.The size and power asymmetry explain ...

The "Deal of the Century" for Israel Palestine

Palestine

2019-04-20 / www.swp-berlin.org

Since Trump took office, Israelis and Palestinians have moved further away from a two-state settlement. Instead the one-state reality has become even more deeply entrenched: Israel enjoys overriding control of the entire region between the River Jordan and the Mediterranean, ...

Theresa May's big golden goodbyes bill

UK

2019-08-05 / www.politico.eu

LONDON - British taxpayers paid out hundreds of thousands of pounds in golden goodbyes during the chaotic Theresa May premiership - including to Boris Johnson and many of his new top team.
Almost £850,000 was paid out to ministers who ...

Congo, child labour and your electric car

Industry

2019-07-07 / www.ft.com

Kongolo Mashimango Reagen used to spend his days carrying 25kg sacks of cobalt from small mines in a southern corner of the Democratic Republic of Congo, which is so rich in minerals that large deposits can be found just metres ...

The Globalization of Crime: A Transnational Organized Crime Threat Assessment

Organized crime

2018-07-24 /

Today, the criminal market spans the planet: illicit goods are sourced from one continent, trafficked across another and marketed in a third.Transnational crime has become a threat to peace and development, even to the sovereignty of nations," warned the head ...

The Decade's Biggest Financial Crimes

Financial crime

2018-07-10 / www.businessinsider.com

White collar crime, this is your decade....Some are in jail, some are awaiting their day in court, some are dead.
There are chief executives, lawyers, and money managers. Some were only modestly talented in concealing their fraud; others ran elaborate ...

Turkey used German spy software on opposition politicians and activists

surveillance

2018-05-15 / www.dw.com

The Turkish government used a German-made spy program to infiltrate the smartphones of Turkish opposition members, according to a report seen by German media.

Germany has strict rules for exporting spy software and has in the past vowed to block exports ...

Computer vision: teaching machines to see the world like us

Artificial Intelligence

2019-05-17 / www.raconteur.net

Building computers with enough intelligence to perform tasks that are as complex as those carried out by the human body is difficult; obviously it is. As we now strive to bring the advantages of computer vision to modern IT systems, ...

China Pushes for Primacy in Space

Space

2018-12-31 / www.wsj.com

In a first for any country, the Chang'e-4 probe is set to touch down on the "dark side" of the moon on or around Jan. 3, according to state media, and dispatch a rover in a vast crater to explore ...

Israel’s tech entrepreneurs struggle to lure overseas talent

Human Resources

2018-07-04 / www.ft.com

Visa problems, concerns about safety and lower salaries deter foreign engineers.

Liad Agmon has run and sold two Israeli technology start-ups and is expanding his third one, Dynamic Yield. This provides services to at least half a billion customers of global ...

Machine Learning: Things Are Getting Intense

Machine Learning

2018-05-14 / Deloitte Global

Five key trends will likely cause a significant uptick in enterprise use of machine learning this year, according to Deloitte Global.

Large and medium-sized enterprises will step up their use of machine learning in 2018, Deloitte Global predicts, doubling the number ...

Invisible Innovations Will Drive Smartphone Development

Smartphone

2018-05-14 / http://deloitte.wsj.com

Five years from now, smartphones may look pretty much the way they do today. Internally, however, they are likely to be very different.

In the decade-plus of their existence, full touchscreen smartphones have upended nearly every aspect of everyday life, transforming ...

Is ISIS gaining ‘serious’ ground in Afghanistan? Russia says yes. The US says no.

Foreign Fighters

2018-03-27 / www.militarytimes.com

Over the last two months, Afghan security forces and U.S. targeting has eliminated more than 140 ISIS-Khorasan fighters. And while the pressure on ISIS-K coincides with pressure to bring the Taliban to the negotiating table with the Afghan government, officials ...

Escape from Isil : Syrian prisons and safe houses overrun with fleeing jihadists (Part 2)

ISIS

2017-12-03 / www.telegraph.co.uk

The messages from Syria ping on Aghiad al-Kheder’s phone all through the day and night. Sometimes it can be overwhelming, but he knows he cannot afford to ignore a single one.

“Yes, no, no, I don’t recognise this one,” Mr Kheder ...

Escape from Isil : The British fighter who went to remarkable lengths to quit Islamic State (Part 1)

ISIS

2017-12-02 /

The British Isil fighter was so confident he would make it out from Syria to Turkey that he packed little more than a change of clothes, a phone and a torch.

Shabazz Suleman had paid the right people: $1,000 (£750) to ...

In Egypt, Furious Retaliation but Failing Strategy in Sinai

Egypt

2017-11-25 / www.nytimes.com

After militants massacred 305 people at a packed mosque on Friday in a stunning assault on a sacred place, President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi responded as he knows best.

Mr. Sisi went on television vowing to “take revenge” and strike back with ...

IS, Boko Haram won't be defeated unless corruption tackled: NGO

Corruption

2017-02-21 / www.al-monitor.com

Western governments need to step up their efforts to combat corruption if they are to defeat jihadists such as the Islamic State group and Boko Haram, Transparency International warned .

Corrupt practices in states such as Nigeria, Libya and Iraq are ...