National security

Indonesia's anti-terrorism police have arrested four Turks suspected of being linked to ISIL

US authorities threatened to fine Yahoo $250,000 a day if it failed to comply with a secret surveillance program requiring it to hand over user data in the name of national security, court documents showed Thursday.

Security assessment for gay parade "in 2 weeks"

BELGRADE -- Interior Minister Nebojša Stefanović says the final security assessment for the Belgrade Pride event, announced for September 28, will be known in two weeks.

He added that the police are "prepared for this event."

The Justice Department could open a wide-ranging investigation into the practices of the Ferguson, Missouri, Police Department as early as Thursday following the shooting last month of an unarmed black 18-year-old by a white police officer in the St. Louis suburb.
     
A person briefed on the matter said Missouri officials were notified Wednesday of the probe.
     

Police in Athens were investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of an unidentified individual whose charred remains were discovered in a basement in Kypseli, central Athens, on Wednesday.

The body was discovered by firemen who were called to the scene to put out a blaze in the apartment.

BELGRADE - Serbian Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic met Wednesday with the representatives of the Ministry of Justice, the Prosecutor's Office and the trade unions, and stressed that the government will take measures to protect police officers in view of the growing number of assaults on them, some of which ended fatally.

Energy Minister Yiannis Maniatis held a meeting yesterday with US Ambassador in Athens David D. Pearce to discuss possible natural gas supply problems that Europe may face this winter due to the crisis in Ukraine.

Exactly two weeks after summoning German Ambassador to Ankara Eberhard Pohl over electronic spying claims, the Turkish Foreign Ministry yesterday summoned the U.S. chargé d’affaires in Ankara, Jess Bailey, over similar claims. They demanded the U.S. stop spying on Turkey at once, “if the claims are true.”

Regional police benefit from introducing EU standards, practices

Nations are sharing ways to accomplish the goals of community policing.

Balkan police forces are introducing EU norms and practices in their work, leading to more accountable and transparent police forces, experts said.

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Turkey's Foreign Ministry has summoned the US charge d'affaires over a media report that the United States had spied on Turkey intensively since 2006.