British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s term in office is set to end without a resolution to the matter of how the fight against disinformation should be organised at government level. Should it stay under the remit of the Foreign Office and its intelligence services, or be dealt with in a separate department altogether, as Westminster recommends?
The priorities of the nine Vietnamese military personnel officially invited to Paris for the Eurosatory defence and security trade fair were different to those hoped by their French partners.
A key example of the near-forced privatisation of the country’s public assets, the national airway Pakistan International Airlines has just been transferred to private ownership. But in reality, the local defence sector is still in the driving seat.
Taiwanese defence groups are increasingly looking to French drone manufacturers. One such group, I-SEE, which had kept a low profile, is pushing ahead with its cooperation projects on the island.
A couple employed by European missile manufacturer MBDA were dismissed because of the husband’s past trips abroad. His travels were detailed in an unsigned memo from a French intelligence service, which focused on the man’s work placements in Israel and Armenia when he was studying for his engineering degree.
US officials are pressing European authorities for guarantees over immigration controls. In a barely veiled threat, Washington has said it could remove these countries from the Visa Waiver Program administered by DHS and the State Department if they do not meet its demands.
Thanks to unprecedented cooperation, EU member states’ and Kyiv intelligence services have found that Turkey has become a hub for Russia’s shadow fleet. A network of companies in Istanbul now provides Moscow’s preferred way to smuggle oil, an activity that remains legal under Turkish law.
The appointment of diplomat Maximilian Rasch to the strategic post of BND vice-president signals the German spy service’s rising influence. Rasch, now tasked with overseeing the BND’s foreign affairs, served in Kyiv and is close to the agency’s director.
Reduced by purges to just two members, the supreme body of the People’s Liberation Army is to be reconstituted before the army’s centenary in 2027. The party leadership wants to dispel the image of a military institution mired in speculation and to demonstrate that the purge remains on course.
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