Brussels proposes to stop European imports of Russian oil within six months and to exclude the largest Russian bank, Sberbank, from the international financial system Swift, announced Wednesday the President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen. “We will phase out Russian deliveries of crude oil within six months and of refined products by the end of the year,” as part of a sixth sanctions package once morest Moscow aimed at cutting off funding for war once morest Ukraine, she told MEPs in Strasbourg. “It will be a complete ban on imports of all Russian oil, transported by sea or by pipeline, crude and refined … in an orderly fashion, in a way that will allow us to put in place ‘other routes of supply,’ she explained. Russian oil accounts for around a quarter of EU oil imports. According to several European officials and diplomats, the Commission’s draft – submitted overnight to the Member States – provides for an exemption for Hungary and Slovakia. These two countries, landlocked and totally dependent on deliveries by the Druzhba pipeline, will be able to continue their purchases from Russia in 2023, said one of these officials. “It will not be easy. Some states are heavily dependent on Russian oil. But we simply have to work on it,” pleaded Ursula von der Leyen before the European Parliament. “We will thus exert maximum pressure on Russia, while minimizing collateral damage for us and our partners,” she said. Brussels is also proposing to exclude three additional Russian banks, including Sberbank, by far the largest institution in the country (regarding a third of the banking sector), from the Swift international financial system. As part of the EU sanctions, seven Russian institutions have been deprived of access to Swift, a secure messaging platform allowing crucial operations such as the transit of payment orders and funds transfer orders between banks. “We are hitting systemically important banks critical to the Russian financial system and Putin’s capacity for destruction. This will reinforce the total isolation of the Russian financial sector,” von der Leyen stressed. The Commission is also proposing to block access to the European airwaves to three major Russian state broadcasters, which would be prohibited from distributing their content in the EU by cable, satellite, internet or smartphone applications. “We have identified the role of propaganda organs of these TV channels, which aggressively amplify Putin’s lies. We must no longer give them free rein to spread them,” von der Leyen said. without further details.
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A report published by BleepingComputer warned of the spread of a wave of fake updates for the Windows 10 operating system. The report said that scammers deceive Microsoft users to install their fake updates on their devices, and once the installation process is completed, all the contents of the entire device are encrypted from files by a ransom virus.
The report indicated that fake Windows 10 updates are widely spread on a number of unknown news sites, which promote those updates to convince their visitors to download them.
The report indicated that the ransomware is of the Magniber type, which automatically encrypts user data once the fake update is installed, at which point the user loses control and can never open any file on his computer.
Experts explained that the vast majority of fake updates bear names such as: Win10.0_System_Upgrade_Software.msi and Security_Upgrade_Software_Win10.0.msi, so that users are wary of installing files with those or similar names.
A report published by CNET has previously warned of the widespread spread of fake updates for Windows 10 since 2019, so it is better not to install updates on Windows manually, but rather to rely on periodic updates provided by Microsoft to users’ devices directly.
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“The Khayma Le360”. Ep 4: focus on Spain’s firm response to the Algerian president’s statements
written by Alexandra Hartman Editor-in-Chief
In this new episode of “La Khayma Le360”, broadcast from Laâyoune, it is a question of returning to Spain’s firm response to the declarations of the Algerian president, going through the pitiful clarification of the Algerian regime in the face of the dry reframing of Madrid and Algeria’s threats to cut gas supplies to Spanish customers.
In reaction to the Algerian president’s remarks with regard to Spain and his new position of support for the Moroccan autonomy plan for the Sahara, Jose Manuel Albares did not hide his annoyance. For the head of Spanish diplomacy, the Algerian approach is totally “sterile”.
Abdelmadjid Tebboune, in an interview granted on Saturday April 23, 2022 to two media, once once more protested once morest Madrid’s recent position vis-à-vis the Sahara issue. Spain’s new attitude has been described as “morally and historically unacceptable”.
Two days later, the head of Spanish diplomacy reframed Algerian power: “I am not going to fuel sterile controversies, but Spain has taken a sovereign decision within the framework of international law and there is nothing ‘other to add,’ he said on the radio Zero Wave.
Not a day goes by without the Algerian power revealing its true nature: it is the main actor in the conflict in the Moroccan Sahara, going so far as to hide the Polisario, which now finds itself playing an episodic role.
After having suffered a severe reframing from Madrid, the Algerian regime therefore tried to provide clarifications. Late in the evening of Tuesday April 26, 2022, the official Algerian agency APS released a dispatch, quoting mysterious “observers”, and stating that “the President of the Republic, who has always maintained that Algeria is not engaged in the conflict in Western Sahara, clarified Algeria’s position vis-à-vis Spain by reaffirming the close ties between the two countries”.
This, “while regretting the brand new position of the head of government which can in no way be that of the Spanish people, and even less that of King Felipe VI, who has never been singled out by the head of the Algerian State, on the contrary”.
These “observers” tried to qualify the attack formulated once morest Spain by Abdelmadjid Tebboune. However, the Algerian regime did not wait for Tebboune’s interview to launch hostilities once morest Spain. As early as March 19, Algiers had recalled its ambassador to Madrid. An attitude to which the northern neighbor had opposed a legitimate disdain.
In addition, Algeria takes a dim view of the energy partnership forged between the Kingdom and Spain, aimed at reversing the flows of the Maghreb-Europe Gas Pipeline (GME). In a new gesture of hostility towards Morocco, the Algerian Minister of Energy and Mines has threatened to cut off its gas deliveries to Spanish customers.
In a press release, relayed by the country’s press agency, APS, Mohamed Arkab, Algerian Minister of Energy and Mines, indicated that he had been informed “today by electronic message, by his Spanish counterpart, Teresa Ribera , of Spain’s decision to authorize the operation, in reverse flow, of the Maghreb Europe Gas Pipeline (GME)”.
The Algerian Ministry of Energy and Mines made a point of specifying in this respect that any routing of “quantities of Algerian natural gas delivered to Spain, whose destination is none other than that provided for in the contracts, will be considered as a breach of the contractual commitments, and consequently, might lead to the breach of the contract binding Sonatrach to its Spanish customers”.
The threatening tone of the press release from the Algerian ministry in fact expresses the feeling of hatred and the impotent rage that Algiers harbors towards Morocco, which has just signed its entry into the international liquefied natural gas (LNG) market. Indeed, the Kingdom is preparing to receive the first deliveries of gas which will supply the two power stations of Ain Beni Mathar and Tahaddart, which have been shut down since the breach of the contract between Morocco (ONEE) and Algeria (Sonatrach), end of October last.
Recall that at a press briefing on Friday April 15, the Minister of Energy Transition of the Kingdom of Morocco, Leila Benali, nevertheless insisted on the fact that Morocco was not going to obtain supplies from the Spanish market. nor with that of the EU. Spain will simply make its infrastructures available to the Kingdom (the Spanish section of the GME, regasification units) in order to transport the gas to Morocco by reversing the flows of the GME.
It is therefore with this new episode of “La Khayma Le360”, and more precisely from the famous district of Maâtallah, that we immerse ourselves in the latest developments relating to the Sahara issue and in the reactions of the Algerian regime, following the very recent Morocco’s diplomatic successes.
Nador-El Aroui Airport welcomed 95,370 passengers between February 7 and March 31
written by Alexandra Hartman Editor-in-Chief
Nador-El Aroui airport welcomed a total of 95,370 passengers during the period from February 7 (1st day of resumption of international flights) to March 31, 2022, indicates the National Airports Office (ONDA).
This volume of passenger traffic represents a recovery rate of 105% compared to the same period of 2019 (91,108 passengers), underlines the ONDA in a press release.
The same airport recorded, between February 7 and March 31, 2022, a total of 1,006 airport movements, compared to 735 movements during the similar period of 2019, representing a recovery rate of 137%, reports MAP.
For the month of March alone, this airport welcomed 61,843 passengers through 642 flights. This volume of commercial traffic represents a recovery rate of 116% for passengers and 152% for airport movements, compared to the same month of 2019.
Nador-El Aroui Airport ranks 7th nationally in terms of passenger air traffic volume and airport movements.
The Kingdom’s airports welcomed 2,228,723 passengers through 21,330 air flights, during the period from February 7 to March 31, 2022.
During the month of March, Moroccan airports recorded a commercial traffic volume of 1,452,030 passengers and 13,543 flights, representing a recovery rate compared to the same period of 2019 of 70% for passengers and 80 % for airport movements.
Of the 26 airports open to air traffic, only 17 airports have been served since the reopening of national airspace, says ONDA.
It should be noted that airports in the North and East regions experienced the strongest growth, with recovery rates exceeding 100%.