Airlines around the world have been warned by the British government not to allow CIA whistle-blower Edward Snowden to board any flights to the UK. The global alert has been issued to carriers warning the former US intelligence worker, who leaked details of the controversial Prism web spy programme, ‘is highly likely to be refused entry to the UK’.
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Glencore Xstrata has named Morgan Stanley’s former chief executive, John J. Mack, and the executive chairman of the information provider Bloomberg, Peter T. Grauer, as non-executive directors to its board.
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Google is the latest company to join the FIDO board of directors to develop alternatives to the most basic and vulnerable security measure: the password.
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Activists gathered in Strasbourg to await the arrival of the ‘Freedom Train’ from Paris. The train was carrying around 400 anti-regime Syrians and their French supporters who were headed for the European Parliament.
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Police in the southern Chinese island province of Hainan will board and search ships which illegally enter what China considers its territory in the disputed South China Sea, state media said on Thursday, a move likely to add to tensions.
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New York state law allows for an extra day of voting if turnout is drastically suppressed because of a natural disaster like Superstorm Sandy. That could potentially postpone state, congressional and even presidential election results beyond Tuesday’s Election Day.
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A European Parliament committee opposed the appointment of Luxembourg’s Yves Mersch to the European Central Bank’s Executive Board because of unhappiness about a lack of female candidates for the job.
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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Friday said that an accountability review board is already looking into whether the U.S. security procedures were “appropriate” and “properly implemented” prior to the attack on the U.S. consulate in Libya, which led to the murders of four Americans, including U.S. Ambassador to Libya, Chris Stevens.
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The world’s largest aluminium producer Rusal on Monday appointed Russian President Vladimir Putin’s old KGB friend and former member of East Germany’s Stasi security service as its chairman.
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Consumer organizations question whether a recent US-EU treaty that allows for passenger pre-screening violates personal data protection laws
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