National security

With anti-drug operation in Lazarat, Albania signals readiness for EU membership

A transgender sex worker has sued the Interior Ministry, after being fined by police officers on the grounds that she “caused disturbance."

The plaintiff, identified as T.T., was fined twice on April 24 and 25 after locals from the neighborhood in Ankara where she resides filed a complaint by phone to the police.

Undercover police officers will keep tourists safe from thieves in the Bulgarian Black Sea resorts this summer.

The policemen will be dressed in plain clothes without badges in order to easily blend with the tourist crowds, private TV station BTV reports. The officers will patrol in pairs - one local and one detached Ministry of Interior employee.

Germany took the dramatic step Thursday of asking the top U.S. intelligence official in Berlin to leave the country, following two suspected cases of American spying and the yearlong spat over eavesdropping by the National Security Agency.
     
The move reflects growing impatience in Germany at what is perceived as U.S. nonchalance about being caught spying on a close ally.

The FBI and National Security Agency monitored the emails of prominent Muslim-American activists, academics and a political candidate, according to a report co-authored by journalist Glenn Greenwald.
      

German authorities said Wednesday they were investigating an alleged foreign spy as reports said the suspect was the second within days believed to be working for US intelligence.
      

Police in the central Athenian neighborhood of Exarchia on Tuesday released four men who were taken in for questioning following a firebomb attack on a riot police detail posted in the area.

The attack occurred in the early hours of Tuesday on Valtetsiou Street, when unknown assailants launched five Molotov cocktails at the officers.

No one was injured in the attack.

A 54-year-old Dutch national living in western Greece faces charges of threatening bodily harm and illegal weapons possession after allegedly pointing a gun at a motorist over a perceived transgression of the traffic code, police said Monday.

The 49-year-old motorist said the unnamed Dutchman threatened him on a rural road on the outskirts of Vonitsa and then fled in his own vehicle.

Air travelers with smartphones or other electronic devices must be able to turn them on to take them aboard under new security measures, US authorities said Sunday.
      

Regular Internet users, including Americans, far outnumber legally-targeted foreigners in electronic communications intercepted by the National Security Agency, The Washington Post reported Saturday.
      
The Post based their assertion on a four-month study of a large cache of NSA-intercepted electronic data provided by fugitive NSA contractor Edward Snowden.