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UAE citizens will be granted entry visas to the USA. They will not be affected by Trump’s travel entry ban against Muslim-majority countries. ( Twitter account of the UAE Embassy in USA )

"Prayer in Cairo" via Wikipedia Two gunmen opened fire on prayers of the Islamic cultural centre of Quebec in Quebec City, Canada, on Sunday during evening prayers. Police arrested two suspects but did not disclose identities and motivation for the mass shooting.

Citizens of the Russian Federation will be granted an entry visa for 30 days at all entry points to the United Arab Emirates, at their first arrival in the country. The special visa is extensible one time during the permanence for a further 30 days. ( Emirates News Agency )

Hackers infiltrated three government-owned Indian banks and used their SWIFT network to generate fake trade documents like letters of credit and garantees. Letters of credit are letters wrote between banks to ensure payment to the supplier of goods when certain conditions are met.

The U.S. Ministry of Internal Affairs (Department of Homeland Security) announced on 10 January it will implement the Blockchain technology, in order to secure the transmission and storage of data collected by security cameras, sensors and internal databases. Such devices currently rely on…

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was obsolete and explained his reasons stating, "It’s obsolete because it wasn’t taking care of terror" . He added, “A lot of these countries aren’t paying what they’re supposed to be paying, which I think is very…

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump asked about the possibility of a nuclear arms deal with Russia stated: "For one thing, I think nuclear weapons should be way down and reduced very substantially, that’s part of it." (The Times)

Outgoing CIA Director John Brennan expressed his opinion on U.S. President-elect Donald Trump declaring: “I don’t think he has a full understanding of Russian capabilities and the actions they are taking on the world” . Following the President-elect hope for better bilateral relations between the…

Qtum is the first open-source value transfer protocol and decentralized application platform, that can execute smart contracts with a proof-of-stake consensus mechanism. The platform is described on the project website as follows: "The Quantum Blockchain [...] is a combination of Bitcoin Core…

Following the order (subpoena) to disclose records on all U.S. customers sent to Coinbase digital asset exchange on 30 November 2016, Brian Armstrong, CEO at Coinbase, proposed to implement a third party reporting mechanism in order to increase tax compliance.

Following the death of actress Carrie Fisher (Princess Leia) on 27 December 2016, the Lucasfilm production company announced: "We want to assure our fans that Lucasfilm has no plans to digitally recreate Carrie Fisher’s performance as Princess or General Leia Organa" (starwars.com)

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump is open to lifting sanctions against Russia if Moscow starts cooperating with the United States (the first priority being terrorism). He stated: "If you get along and if Russia is really helping us, why would anybody have sanctions if somebody’s doing some really…

The future Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Secretary of State) of the United States, Rex Tillerson, declared he will favour maintaining the current U.S. sanctions against Russia for the present. He stated: "I would leave things in the status quo so we are able to convey this can go either way" .