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The beat<\/strong><\/p>\n

Surveillance state<\/em><\/p>\n

A new police camera system in New Jersey is raising serious privacy concerns<\/a>. The city of Newark plans to install over 300\u00a0surveillance cameras to create a \u2018virtual block watch\u2019. The new cameras allow anyone with an email address and an internet connection to watch whatever activities Newark\u2019s Citizen Virtual Patrol<\/a> captures. To date, more than 1,600\u00a0members of the public have registered.<\/p>\n

Mugshot exploitation<\/em><\/p>\n

Owners of the infamous website mugshots.com have been arrested on charges of extortion, money laundering and identity theft. The website had for years profited from others\u2019 humiliation<\/a> by publishing mugshots and then demanding payment for their removal. The scheme earned the owners more than US$2\u00a0million in fees<\/a> over a three-year period. California\u2019s Attorney General described the scheme as exploitation, saying \u2018Those who can\u2019t afford to pay into this scheme to have their information removed pay the price when they look for a job, housing, or try to build relationships with others.\u2019<\/p>\n

Interpol issues<\/em><\/p>\n

A Russian human rights activist was arrested by Spanish police in Madrid<\/a> on a Russian Interpol arrest warrant. Bill Browder was later released<\/a> after the Interpol Secretary General in Lyon advised Spanish police to disregard the notice. The arrest exposes tricky aspects of Interpol\u2019s role. Commentaries on the arrest<\/a> argue that international law enforcement potentially allows authoritarian states to undermine Western democracies\u2019 own laws\u2014such as prosecuting activism, which is protected by law in most Western countries.<\/p>\n

CT scan<\/strong><\/p>\n

Money money money<\/em><\/p>\n

Iran\u2019s parliament debated joining the International Convention for the Suppression of Financing of Terrorism<\/a>. Some lawmakers derided the bill as \u2018colonial\u2019<\/a>, but the chamber eventually forwarded the bill to committee for evaluation. The bill is an attempt to get Iran off the Stopping terrorist financing is notoriously difficult because terrorists continually find new ways to access money. Some of these ideas have been floated online by pro-Islamic State and al-Qaeda, as SITE Intelligence reports here<\/a>, here<\/a> and here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Amnesty no more<\/em><\/p>\n

Kenya launched an operation to capture al-Shabaab militants<\/a> who had returned to Kenya under a 2015\u00a0amnesty but had failed to surrender to police. The operation will also target community members suspected of hiding returnees. The amnesty has had mixed success\u2014some blame returnees for ongoing al-Shabaab attacks<\/a>, while others note that registered returnees have<\/p>\n

Joint CT exercise<\/em><\/p>\n

India and Nepal kicked off a two-week counterterrorism exercise<\/a> in the Himalayas. Though terrorism isn\u2019t a significant threat in the region, the porous Nepal\u2013India border has long concerned India<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Checkpoint<\/strong><\/p>\n

Iran to leave Syrian border zones<\/em><\/p>\n

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has declared that only Syrian forces should be present in the country\u2019s border regions<\/a> with Israel and Jordan. Fearing conflict between Israeli and Iranian troops, Moscow expressed its support for withdrawing Iranian troops after Israel launched strikes against Iranian units in Syria<\/a>. It isn\u2019t in Russia\u2019s interests to see a proxy war in Syria<\/a> that would escalate tensions and undermine the Assad regime. Russia, with the\u00a0US and Jordan, has backed a tenuous ceasefire in the border region since July last year.<\/p>\n

Water woes<\/em><\/p>\n

India inaugurated a new dam<\/a> that will divert the Kishanganga River from Pakistan, which could create a severe water crisis in Pakistan. The World Bank stepped in to facilitate talks with India and Pakistan, but no agreement was reached<\/a>. The Indus Rivers System Authority in Pakistan has since warned of acute water shortages<\/a>. Late last year, the Pakistan Council for Water Resources warned that the country may run dry by 2025<\/a>.<\/p>\n

North Korean smuggling activities \u2018widespread\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n

Japan\u2019s Foreign Ministry recently released four photos<\/a> showing a Chinese-flagged ship transferring fuel to a North Korean tanker<\/a> in contravention of UN\u00a0Security Council resolutions. The North Korean tanker, Ji\u00a0Song\u00a06<\/em>, has been blacklisted for smuggling fuel into North Korea. This is the fifth reported case of an illicit transfer<\/a> in the Sea of Japan, suggesting that North Korea\u2019s smuggling activities may be increasing.<\/p>\n

First responder<\/strong><\/p>\n

Crisis collaboration<\/em><\/p>\n

Monsoon rain and floods<\/a> struck more than 20\u00a0districts in Sri Lanka earlier this week, causing mass internal displacements. According to Relief Web<\/a>, the flooding affected some 153,000\u00a0people. Despite the devastation, there has been a positive display of collaboration between first responders. Sri Lanka\u2019s Disaster Management Centre successfully coordinated the rescue operations of the Sri Lankan Army, Navy and Air, as well as safe transfer of people to medical clinics<\/a>.<\/p>\n

International Day of UN Peacekeepers<\/em><\/p>\n

Tuesday was International Day of UN\u00a0Peacekeepers<\/a>, marking 70\u00a0years of UN\u00a0peacekeeping operations. Ukraine capitalised on the occasion to advocate for the deployment of a UN\u00a0peacekeeping mission<\/a> in its eastern region of Donbas. The US\u00a0Ambassador to Ukraine agreed, saying that \u2018UN\u00a0peacekeepers should replace Russian troops\u2019<\/a>. And earlier this month, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said that a UN mission could help stabilise the region and assist in the implementation of the Minsk agreement<\/a>. Russia allegedly uses humanitarian conveys<\/a> to send weapons and ammunition to militants in the region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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