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The Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) strategists in the Gulf are under pressure to respond to a letter sent

In line with its wish to protect sovereign industries such as its space programme (IO, 14/10/21) and medical research (IO,

A few words from Volodymyr Zelensky's New Year's message mentioning photographs of Ukrainian soldiers that could potentially be taken in

The boarding of the Emirati-flagged ship Rawabi on 3 January off the coast of Al Hudaydah, which fell into Houthi

Lebanon is to resume talks with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on 15 January but a foreseeable persistent impasse could hold

Pocketing two out of five sublots for a total of £3.4m (€4.1m) at the end of last year, Exiger Diligence's London branch has taken the lion's share of a framework contract awarded by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial

Unsurprisingly, the result of the call for tender for the equipment of French prisons with anti-drone systems (IO, 31/05/21), which

Turkish ex-diplomat turned consultant Mehmet Ogutçu has been paying particular attention to the recent chaos in Kazakhstan. Head of the

According to our sources, Laurent Nunez, France's National Coordinator for Intelligence and the Fight Against Terrorism (CNRLT) is poised to

Still burned by the events that shook his court in 2021 (IO, 07/04/21), King Abdullah II rang the New Year

The launch in the coming weeks of an alliance of 28 companies under Sberbank's leadership should enable Alexander Vedyakhin, the

The latest cohort of Legion of Honour recipients signed by Emmanuel Macron on 31 December included the quiet but influential lawyer and businessman Mohamed bin Laden. President of the Saudi-French Business Council and now an officer of France's most prestigious

Airbus Defence & Space (ADS) is to install a new communications ciphering system for the British Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

China, the world's largest importer of Iraqi oil, has been very open about its energy ambitions in Iraq (IO, 08/09/21),

The newly established Independent Oversight Board (Unabhangiger Kontrollrat - UKr) has been overseeing the work of the BND, Germany's foreign

On 6 January, the Til Koçer border crossing between Syria and Iraq, which had been closed for several years, finally

The scale and suddenness of the ongoing protests in several Kazakh regions has led the country's oligarchs to flee abroad

Former French prime minister François Fillon, who became an independent director of petrochemicals group SIBUR (IO, 05/10/21) on 17 December,

Laurent Nunez, France's National Coordinator for Intelligence and Counter-Terrorism, felt reassured when he was questioned by National Assembly members carrying out an inquiry into national resilience on 8 December. A week earlier, according to our sources, prime minister Jean Castex

At the end of December 2021, the French executive decided to fight back against the Russian private military group Wagner's