Colin Powell

US: Harris administration plans to include Obama allies, focus on diversity if wins election

If Joe Biden‘s pick, Kamala Harris, wins the election, she will likely staff her staff with her closest advisers as well as key cabinet members.

Regardless of whether Democrats retain power in the Senate or Republicans take it, 59-year-old Harris will have to figure out which people to keep from the Biden administration.

Romania Remains Hub for Cyber-Crime Gangs

Several cyber-crime cases dismantled by Romanian police in cooperation with international law enforcement show that the Eastern European country is still a hub for cyber-related crime.

Italian and Romanian police recently dismantled a cybercrime gang that stole 1 million euros from hundreds of customers of two major European banks, Europol announced on Thursday.

‘Kurds are the primary US partner in Iraq and Syria’

Last week I had the chance to have a tête-à-tête conversation with Richard Haass, president of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), one of the United States’ most established think tanks. He was in Istanbul for the publication of the Turkish edition of his latest book, “Foreign Policy Begins at Home.”

Romanian in Bush Family Hacking Scandal Jailed

Marcel Lazar Lehel, a cab driver by profession, was jailed on Friday after attracting global notoriety for hacking into the Bush family’s emails and revealing artwork by the former president, including self-portraits in the bath.

He also hacked the emails of Romanian MEP Corina Cretu, revealing her intimate messages to former US Secretary of State Colin Powell.