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High government officials are using chat programs for communication

High government officials are using chat programs for communication rather then SMS messages. President Tomislav Nikolic is using WhatsApp, as well as the Minister of foreign affairs Ivica Dacic.

Migrants dreaming of Europe have their pick of social media sites that work like an online travel agent, advertising fares and offering tips on secure payments, while criminal gangs from Turkey are homing in on a share of the profits.

That's the picture of an increasingly sophisticated business in migrant smuggling painted by European officials and an EU document.

President Hassan Rouhani re-entered Iran's feverish debate on Internet censorship and gender segregation Sept. 7, saying neither policy was in the country's interest.
      
Rouhani was elected last year having pledged to be more moderate on social issues after his conservative predecessor Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's eight-year tenure, but he has encountered resistance.
      

Smartphone messenger application Line, which has hundreds of millions of users across Asia, was urging people to change their passwords Thursday as Japanese police investigated the hacking of hundreds of accounts.
      

A 64-year-old resident of the southeastern Aegean island of Rhodes who gained some notoriety after featuring in a 2010 documentary detailing the heyday of the Greek "kamaki," Casanovas who make a business of romancing tourists vacationing in Greece, was found dead in his home on Friday by firefighters, local media reported on Tuesday.