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Three days after the luxury superyacht Bayesian sank near the Sicilian capital of Palermo, hopes of finding survivors are fading. It now appears that seven people died, among them the British entrepreneur Mike Lynch. The incident has a nasty aftertaste for the press.

Since the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine more than half a million people have left Russia. President Vladimir Putin has now issued a new law to reduce the once high immigration hurdles. The aim is to make Russia attractive to citizens from states where "traditional values" are being repressed. The press ridicules the idea.

In diesem Sommer wurden bereits drei fette Transfers für die übernächste Saison abgewickelt. Alle mit episch langen Verträgen. Ein neuer Trend mischt die Liga auf.

Das Zürich Openair steht wieder vor der Tür und verspricht vier Tage voller Musik und unvergesslicher Momente. Doch wie gut kennst du das beliebte Festival? Teste dein Wissen und finde heraus, ob du ein wahrer ZOA-Profi bist!

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From 19 to 23 August, the OSCE’s Transnational Threats Department held a training-of-trainers course for the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine (SBGS) in Warsaw, Poland. The training focused on identifying forged documents and impostors at border crossing points.

The hands-on training was delivered by two experts from the Main Forensic Centre of the SBGS to eight border guards, including five women and three men. With the knowledge acquired, participants will return to Ukraine’s border control points and train their fellow border guards on these key skills.

“The use of forged documents at checkpoints across the state border is constantly increasing, the priority task is awareness of the latest methods of forgery. As trainers, it was important to provide each inspector with the opportunity to practically work with a variety of forged documents, in order to deepen their understanding of the process of production, use and detection of forged documents,” noted Major Myroslava Andrushchyshyna, forensic expert at the SBGS Main Forensic Center.

According to Major Oleksii Markovskyi, forensic expert, “In these trainings, it is important not just to memorize, but to understand the cause-and-effect relationship of certain elements of document protection and their signs of forgery. Participants were taught to understand the logic of a forger who imitated security features in documents and, as a result, to produce tools for their prompt detection.”

At the start of the course, participants refreshed their knowledge of different types of documents, personalization and security techniques, and international standards involved in developing travel documents. Representatives from the U.S. Embassy in Warsaw and the United Kingdom’s Home Office also presented on security features contained in U.S. and U.K. passports, as well as common forgery techniques and trends observed in their own investigations.

Participants discussed innovative methods to train fellow border guards to detect fake documents, developing a training programme based on the needs they identified. Each participant then presented to the group on a topic included in the basic course curriculum.

While the SBGS continues to confront the challenges caused by Russia’s ongoing war against Ukraine, participants noted the importance of these training opportunities to continue enhancing their skills as document inspectors.

This training marked the third step in the training cycle, in which every participant had previously completed the basic and advanced courses. The next and final step will be a study visit to Madrid, Spain in November 2024 to disseminate good practices and enhance knowledge of new technologies in detecting forged documents and impostors at border crossing points.

This project supports OSCE participating States and Partners for Co-operation in their efforts to reduce the number of people that manage to illegally cross borders using a fake or stolen identity or by posing as an impostor. The project is made possible through the generous financial support of the U.S. Mission to the OSCE.

TASR: A szlovák nemzeti felkelés (SNP) évfordulójára Trencsénben (Trenčín/megyeszékhely) mindig azon a helyen emlékeznek, ahol a fasizmus 69 áldozata van eltemetve. 1944 októbere és 1945 áprilisa között végezték ki őket. Az emlékhely, amelyet ma Mementónak hívnak, a Brezina erdőparkban található, nem messze a Cseresznyéskerttől – közölte a TASR-rel Erika Ságová, a város szóvivője.

Renault erweitert seine SUV-Palette mit dem Symbioz, einem Hybrid-SUV. Der Wagen bietet viel Platz, moderne Features und einen sparsamen Verbrauch. Blick durfte mit dem Franzosen bereits eine erste Runde drehen.

Ein junger Kosovare wird nach mehreren Gewaltdelikten für fünf Jahre aus der Schweiz ausgewiesen. Im Bundesgerichtsurteil werden die Schwere der Taten und das öffentliche Interesse an einer Landesverweisung hervorgehoben.

Jennifer Lopez und Ben Affleck lassen sich nach nur zwei Jahren Ehe und dem zweiten Beziehungsversuch scheiden. Die Ehe soll schon seit Monaten kaputt sein. Eine Schlammschlacht dürfte ausbleiben, denn JLo will auch auf Rechtsbeistand verzichten.

A 2,492-carat stone has been unearthed, in the biggest find since the Cullinan diamond in 1905.

Die Juso-Initiative zur Erbschaftssteuer sorgt für Aufregung unter den Superreichen. Der Bundesrat lehnt jedoch eine Wegzugssteuer ab, die verhindern soll, dass Wohlhabende ins Ausland ziehen, um Steuern zu vermeiden.

Ein Swiss-Flieger musste auf dem Weg von Tokio nach Zürich wegen eines Notfalls am Samstag in Kasachstan zwischenlanden. Der Pilot machte auf der Piste ein Wendemanöver und blieb in einer Wiese stecken. Eine Analyse zeigt: Der Pilot hatte keine Chance.