SWIFT, a world-wide corporation specializing in providing communication layers between banks in over 206 different countries and between 40.000 financial institutions was caught having been releasing confidential information to USA authorities for years with the complicy of European Central bank.
In the last week of September, Belgia Data Privacy Commission released SWIFT actions to public.
In 4th [...]

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AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) — Seven Muslim radicals accused of plotting an attack in the Netherlands were to go on trial Monday, including one whose name has become synonymous here with the difficulty of obtaining judgments against terrorism suspects.
Samir Azzouz, now 20, has been arrested several times in sweeps, and was acquitted in April 2005 of [...]

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EAST LONDON, South Africa (Reuters) — Zimbabwe, facing food shortages blamed partly on its large-scale seizures of white-owned farms, is considering allowing some interested whites to return to farming, a minister said.
President Robert Mugabe’s government has received more than 200 applications from whites to take up farming again, land minister Flora Buka said on Saturday [...]

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