Central Intelligence Agency

Bulgaria's government is to adopt a set of measures to ensure the population will not fall below 7 million by 2030, Labor and Social Policy Minister Ivaylo Kalfin has said.

U.S. prosecutor Preet Bharara who has charged Turkish-Iranian businessman Reza Zarrab for fraud has been in the spotlight of Turkish Twitter users following the news of Zarrab's arrest.

Bharara's Twitter followers increased from around 20,000 to more than 115,000 in just 24 hours with Turkish users mentioning him with admiration and praises.

Bulgaria ranks 67th out of a total of 126 countries worldwide in terms of military strength in the 2016 Global Firepower (GFP) list.

Using data from publicly-available sources such as CIA.gov, CIA World Factbook, Wikipedia.com, public domain print and media sources, the GFP ranking asseses each nation's potential conventional war-making capabilities.

CIA director John Brennan has said that the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants have used chemical weapons and have the capability to make small quantities of chlorine and mustard gas, CBS News reported Feb. 11.

United States spy chief James Clapper's personal online accounts have been hacked, his office confirmed on Jan. 12, a few months after CIA director John Brennan suffered a similar attack.

Clapper's Office of the Director of National Intelligence confirmed the hack but refused to provide details.

The Independent Association of Journalists, NUNS, has filed an official complaint against Pink TV after it broadcast claims made by a tabloid news editor that a coup d'état would take place in Serbia on Monday.

Anonymous, the loose collective of online hacktivists, leaked out information on Saturday regarding the next Islamic State terror attacks in Paris and other locations around the world, including the United States, Indonesia, Italy and Lebanon – not Greece – all at the same time.

Hacking group Anonymous have published the names, addresses and phone numbers of five alleged recruiters working for ISIS. The internet group had first declared a cyber war on ISIS after the Paris Attacks.

“Triple agent” spy Markus R. is standing as defendent after charges of treason. The 32-year-old former employee of Germany’s foreign intelligence agency (BND) arrived on Monday for his trial for espionage. The case is being tried in a courtroom in Munich, Germany.

An unusual leaked CIA document that has been around since 2006 has been doing the rounds on the Internet in recent hours, trending on Twitter as #Karamanlis_gate.