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In line with efforts to beef up its cyber capacities, Saudi Arabia is investing in the sector abroad, particularly in

Lebanese industry minister George Bushkian is spending a considerable time in Baghdad. He arrived in Iraq on 20 January to inaugurate the

Following the addition of some 1,000 soldiers under the "On the Foundations of the National Resistance" law, which came into

The question of whether or not to allow the TV channels operated by RT - previously known as Russia Today -

After years of heading in and out of the High Court of London, Maksat Arip and Baglan Zhunus finally put

From London, which serves as base for all agents involved in the Indian defence sector, Sanjay Bhandari is closely following the case brought by the "commercial intermediary", as he refers to himself, against the Thales group at the commercial court in

Liberty Strategic Capital (Liberty 77 Capital), founded by Steven Mnuchin, the former treasury secretary under Donald Trump, announced its investment

Chinese ambassador to Syria Feng Biao started the year off with a bang. On 12 January, he finalised an agreement

A few days before Americans were called to return home to the US, the sudden switch in President Joe Biden's

The Chinese research centre Purple Mountain Laboratories became the centre of attention on 6 January with its announcement that it

According to our sources, Amarante International, led by Alexandre Hollander, won in late December a contract with the French ministry

Russia - SVR awards artists' prize. SVR chief Sergey Naryshkin (IO, 22/10/21), awarded the Yevgeny Primakov prize to Russian artists

Ma Xingrui's appointment as Chinese Communist Party secertary in Xinjiang last month is the latest move by President Xi Jingping to coopt members of the 'aerospace clique', one of the last bastions of loyalty to former president Jiang Zemin.Ma, a

Announced on 20 January, the takeover of the French ministry of justice's long-standing interceptions contractor Elektron by big data analytics

Following the protests in Kazakhstan and temporary exodus of the country's oligarchs (IO, 11/01/22), President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev's administration has begun

Russia - SVR awards artists' prize. SVR chief Sergey Naryshkin (IO, 22/10/21), awarded the Yevgeny Primakov prize to Russian artists

Jibril Rajoub, the former head of Preventive Security in the West Bank and putative successor to Mahmoud Abbas (IO, 06/03/19)

A little talked about but highly delicate issue could undermine France's nuclear ambitions in India. Although these ambitions are clear

In a decision issued 21 December, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) rejected an appeal by Belgian

The Lebanese intelligence community, which is subject to the same upheavals as the Lebanese state generally, is not free of