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German Chancellor Approves Investigation of Erdogan Insult
April 18, 2016
The Irish Times reports that German Chancellor Angela Merkel has approved a police investigation of comic Jan Böhmermann for violating an obscure German law criminalizing insults of foreign heads of state by broadcasting a satirical poem in which he insulted Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
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US Struggles to Implement Visa Safeguards
April 13, 2016
Politico reports that the Obama Administration has not so far expressed clear criteria regarding how it plans to implement a recent US law requiring, for security purposes, dual nationals of Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Sudan to apply for visas to enter the US.
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Boko Haram Increases Use of Children in Suicide Attacks
April 13, 2016
A report released by the UN Children's Fund ("UNICEF") indicates the increased use in the past year by Islamist extremist group Boko Haram of children in suicide bombing attacks in Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad, and Niger, from 4 in 2014 to 44 in 2015.
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EU Commissioner Shares Approach to "Violent Extremism"
April 13, 2016
In remarks to the UN High-Level Conference on Preventing Violent Extremism, European Commissioner for Migration and Home Affairs Dimitris Avramopoulos shared the EU"s policing, communications, and social inclusion approach to countering what he labeled "violent extremism" in Europe.
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EU Official Targets "Populism" in Anti-terror Push
April 13, 2016
At a meeting with leaders of the European Committee of the Regions, European Parliament President Martin Schulz called for Europe-wide measures ranging from "social inclusion" to information sharing in order to counter "populists' rhetoric" on the threat of Islamist extremism in the wake of the Paris and Brussels terror attacks.
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