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Via @just_security The #UN General Assembly’s legal committee again missed the opportunity to take action this year on the draft text of a new treaty on crimes against humanity proposed by the International Law Commission. https://t.co/6c0pP8LgtF #humanrights #InternationalLaw

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Via @AP President Joe Biden opened the first White House Summit for Democracy by sounding an alarm about a global slide for democratic institutions and called for world leaders to “lock arms” and demonstrate democracies can deliver. https://t.co/Zy36hy8wzQ #antidemocratic

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Via @C4ISRNET DOD is creating a new position to oversee its digital and #AI activities, with the hope the office will be able to drive faster progress in those areas and meet threats posed by #China ... https://t.co/sEuX2MnIOn #defensepolicy #emergingtechnology #emergingthreats

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Via @DefenseOne #China aims to become the Middle East’s “digital arbiter” by building cheap data networks and providing #surveillance software to autocratic regimes—all in a bid to boost its regional influence ... https://t.co/u9s51fGyof #cyberwar #defensepolicy #emergingthreats

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Via @CNN President Biden ruled out sending US troops to #Ukraine to defend the country from a #Russia invasion a day after laying out the consequences for such an incursion during a stern phone call with Putin... https://t.co/v1aIsCnzYI #geopolitical #newcoldwar #diplomacy #NATO

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Via @abcnews At a Senate hearing on closing the camp, the first of its kind in roughly six years, lawmakers could find little common ground apart from dissatisfaction with the Biden administration ... https://t.co/rFDPW5Wtbh #militarycommissions #GTMO #lawsofwar #defensepolicy

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Via @opiniojuris "Extraterritorial obligations for the prevention of #genocide and other atrocity crimes have become more firmly established in international law in recent years than is commonly recognized ..." https://t.co/ME952tGNfT #internationallaw #IHL #atrocitylaw

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Via @defensenews "#NATO needs to plan beyond efforts to deter another Russian invasion of #Ukraine and recognize that its actual response may differ depending on the extent of Russian military operations." https://t.co/3p5pwhrBV5 #defensepolicy #geopolitical #newcoldwar

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Via @washingtonpost Google is suing two #Russia based individuals it alleges are behind a network of infected computers used for crimes ranging from the theft of personal information to secretly mining #bitcoin ... https://t.co/CUqjhtQCDr #cybersecurity #transnationalcrime

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To provide a framework for judges to address #AI, the Institute for Security Policy and Law and
@CSETGeorgetown
have published the first-of-its-kind policy brief "AI for Judges" ... https://t.co/SyKlRQf1ln #artificialintelligence #emergingtechnology @SUCollegeofLaw

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Via @NYTimes The leaders’ videoconference did not resolve the crisis along Ukraine’s borders, and neither the Kremlin nor the White House reported substantial progress ... https://t.co/hjBOD4b7b2 #foreignpolicy #diplomacy #geopolitical #Ukraine #Russia #newcoldwar

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Via @WSP Across #Ethiopia, thousands of men and women are quitting their jobs to enlist with the country’s armed forces, as rebels from the #Tigray People’s Liberation Front have threatened to invade the capital ... https://t.co/ZvNuzctZwi #civilwar #humansecurity

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Via @lawfareblog After months of investigating Chinese state-owned telecom companies for #nationalsecurity risks, the #FCC on Oct. 26 issued an order on China Telecom: It can no longer provide telecom services in the US. https://t.co/TIFiClYa62 #cybersecurity #cyberespionage

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Via @attackerman "[Fewer strikes] prompts the most important question facing Sullivan’s review: Doesn’t the quasi-pause demonstrate the hollowness of any U.S. claim that national security requires drone strikes?" https://t.co/R1F3L1ZKf3 #drones #targetedkilling #nationalsecurity

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Via @guardian "Facebook’s negligence facilitated the #genocide of #Rohingya Muslims in #Myanmar after the social media network’s algorithms amplified hate speech and the platform failed to take down inflammatory posts ..." https://t.co/rEK6A4C5C0 #socialmedia #humanrights

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Via @CNBC President Biden will warn #Russia leader Vladimir Putin that the US is prepared to impose severe economic countermeasures if Moscow carries out an attack on #Ukraine ... https://t.co/xkXLiVkE9R #NATO #newcoldwar #geopolitical #foreignpolicy

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Via @CNN New US #intelligence findings estimate #Russia could begin a military offensive in #Ukraine in a matter of months as it amasses up to 175,000 troops along the border ... https://t.co/qooks2663o #geopolitical #NATO #newcoldwar #foreignpolicy #defensepolicy

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Via @AP "[A]s it looks to defend its territorial and military interests against an assertive China, North Korea and Russia, [#Japan is] pushing citizens to put aside widespread unease over a more robust role for the military" https://t.co/bYJS8w7bie #geopolitical #newcoldwar

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Via @nytimes Gen. Paul M. Nakasone, the head of #Cyber Command, said a new cross-functional effort has been gathering #intelligence to combat criminal groups targeting U.S. infrastructure ... https://t.co/5H7RMd46Ol #cybersecurity #ransomware #criticalinfrastructure

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Via @AP Tribal clashes between Arabs and non-Arabs killed at least 24 people in Sudan’s western #Darfur region, an aid group said. It was the latest bout of intercommunal violence to rock the conflict-stricken region ... https://t.co/NyMcH01rbk #humansecurity #civilwar #Sudan