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poland visa

Poland waives visa fees for Belarusian children

Belarusian children and young people will no longer have to pay visa fees to visit Poland. Schengen Visa Info reports Belarusian children aged 6 to...
Eastern Caribbean dollar

New Caribbean dollar note expected in 2020

The Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (ECCB) has announced that its polymer XCD 5 banknotes are expected to be in circulation in September. Dominica News Online...
coronavirus europe

Trump restricts travel from Europe to USA

President Donald Trump is restricting travel from Europe to the USA for the next 30 days in an effort to combat the spread of...

Rwanda’s new visa regime comes into force

Rwanda has scrapped visa fees for more than 90 African Union, Commonwealth and Francophonie member states for a 30-day stay. The New Times reports the...
security ink

Security ink discovered for fraud prevention

Indian scientists have developed a special safety ink that can prevent counterfeiting of banknotes and identity documents. After exposure to UV light of a certain...
banknote of the year

Regional Banknote of the Year award winners

New banknotes have been recognised for their outstanding design and security technical excellence with international awards. The awards formed part of the High Security Printing...
id document awards

Belgium, Latvia, Malta, Lithuania win at ID awards

A new e-passport and e-ID card featuring the latest in ID document technical advancement and verification have won international recognition and acclaim.  The Regional ID...
money facts

10 things you didn’t know about money

On 21 April, the US government will release a new $100 bill. The new banknote will be redesigned to prevent digital copying and counterfeiting. Time.com has...
E-3 visa

Ireland could be added to USA’s E-3 visa programme

A bill which could give Irish workers access to thousands of US visas every year has been passed by the US House of Representatives. RTE...
gender-neutral passports

UK court declines gender-neutral passports

A campaigner who wants the UK government to provide gender-neutral passports, has lost their case at the Court of Appeal. In a statement after the...

Upgraded Alaska Driver’s License, ID Card Coming This Fall

The Alaska Division of Motor Vehicles (DMV) recently announced that it will begin issuing upgraded driver’s license and ID cards starting in late Fall...
eu travel

EES and ETIAS: the EU’s New Border Management Systems [UPDATE]

As we have previously reported, the European Union has long been planning to introduce two separate but integrated border management systems. Together, the systems...

Advanced Generative AI: General Adversarial Network

We kicked off this new AI-focused series by Cyber expert Ravi Das with an article about the Variational Autoencoder (VAE). In this second article,...

Rwanda’s New 2,000 RWF and 5,000 RWF Banknotes

The National Bank of Rwanda (BNR) has put into circulation redesigned versions of two of its banknote denominations: the 2,000 Rwanda franc (RWF) and...

Advanced Generative AI: The Variational Autoencoder

In this series of articles, author Ravi Das examines some of the more advanced topics that support Generative AI. In this first article, he...