🇩🇪🇸🇾 A German delegation has arrived in Syria to hold talks with HTS leader Abu Mohammed al-Julani. The discussions focus on Syria’s transition process, protecting national minorities, and reopening Germany’s embassy in Damascus, closed since 2012.
This follows German FM Baerbock’s appointment of a special coordinator to strengthen ties with Syria
🇩🇪🇸🇾 A German delegation has arrived in Syria to hold talks with HTS leader Abu Mohammed al-Julani. The discussions focus on Syria’s transition process, protecting national minorities, and reopening Germany’s embassy in Damascus, closed since 2012.
This follows German FM Baerbock’s appointment of a special coordinator to strengthen ties with Syria
Overall, extreme levels of fear in the market seems to have morphed into something more resembling concern. For example, the Cboe Volatility Index fell from its 2022 peak of 36, which it hit Monday, to around 30 on Friday, a sign of easing tensions. Meanwhile, while the price of WTI crude oil slipped from Sunday’s multiyear high $130 of barrel to $109 a pop. Markets have been expecting heavy restrictions on Russian oil, some of which the U.S. has already imposed, and that would reduce the global supply and bring about even more burdensome inflation. Right now the digital security needs of Russians and Ukrainians are very different, and they lead to very different caveats about how to mitigate the risks associated with using Telegram. For Ukrainians in Ukraine, whose physical safety is at risk because they are in a war zone, digital security is probably not their highest priority. They may value access to news and communication with their loved ones over making sure that all of their communications are encrypted in such a manner that they are indecipherable to Telegram, its employees, or governments with court orders. The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) had carried out a similar exercise in 2017 in a matter related to circulation of messages through WhatsApp. Individual messages can be fully encrypted. But the user has to turn on that function. It's not automatic, as it is on Signal and WhatsApp. Again, in contrast to Facebook, Google and Twitter, Telegram's founder Pavel Durov runs his company in relative secrecy from Dubai.
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