Experts found out that the German passport is the most attractive in terms of political, social and visa benefits. Swiss firm Henley & Partners, which deals with issues of citizenship and consulting in the field of investment immigration, has published its first report on the qualitative aspect of possession of a passport of any given country. The study, entitled "Quality of Nationality...

The human rights and charity foundation Walk Free, leading the fight against slavery, published its latest Global Slavery Index. The document says that by now, there are 46 million people are working in slave-like conditions throughout the world. Most of them are residing in India and North Korea. However, cases of slavery have been observed in all 167 countries, where the WFF studied the...

According to Internet security experts of Symantec, hackers, who in February stole $ 81 million from the Central Bank of Bangladesh accounts, may be involved in a greater number of cyber-attacks on banks. Among them are hacks of the Vietnamese Tien Phong Bank and an unnamed Filipino bank. Some reports say that more than 10 banks were attacked in total. Since the software used to cyberattack the...

The Panama Canal may again provoke reshaping global trade after a hundred years after the large-scale restructuring of the world market. During the nine years of construction work worth more than $ 5 billion, the Panama Canal got equipped with a third set of canal locks and deeper navigation canals. A number of additional improvements also make possible to double the isthmus’ throughput capacity...

EU ministers have reached an agreement on the allocation of € 10,3 billion to Greece. Besides, they decided to mitigate a number of conditions for further assistance. This agreement has already been called a breakthrough in the negotiations with Greece, as the main condition for the release of a new tranche would be performance of commitments for the anti-crisis reforms by the new Greek...

David Cameron is trying to shift attention from upcoming ‘Brexit’ referendum to Turkey's problems. In particular, he says that the country will probably not be ready to join the EU "befor the year 3000", given its current pace of the necessary changes. Supporters of ‘Vote Leave’ campaign published posters ‘Turkey joins the EU’ accompanied with an image of a British passport, which clearly alludes...

Financial Authority of Singapore informed that they are annulling license of local branch of BSI Swiss bank. This is the first case of revocation of a commercial bank’s license registered in the country in 32 years. Financial Authority of Singapore sent to the local division of the Swiss bank BSI notice of withdrawal of its license due to "serious violations of money laundering legislation,...

Kuwait's Deputy Prime Minister Anas al-Saleh said that the second richest country in the Middle East is responding to the oil crisis not by cutting costs, but with a concept "spend as much as possible" to support economic growth. He noted that the government will not cancel any projects. At the same time, the authorities are trying to reduce unnecessary costs to cope with the budget deficit,...

On Wednesday, head of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg met with a dozen US politicians who hold conservative views. The reason for the meeting was the recent allegations towards the social network. Facebook was accused in censoring messages from conservative-leaning media. In response, Mr. Zuckerberg said that it his company finds such actions pointless, and called to build a trusting relationship. The...