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Tulsi Gabbard's ties to Indian right-wing paramilitary groups are likely to play an important role in hearings to confirm her as the United States' next Director of National Intelligence (DNI, IO, 02/12/24). Ram Madhav, former spokesperson for Indian right-wing paramilitary [...]

Several well-connected Bulgarian construction companies are set to reap rewards from the building of two new major Bulgarian nuclear reactors [...]

The sports sector's appetite for "need to know" is a potentially rich source of contracts for corporate intelligence firms, and [...]

After Donald Trump takes office in January, cyber intelligence company Intellexa could well be removed from US blacklists and freed [...]

Paris - France allocates €1.69m to western Balkans cyber development centreA French bill that would approve the creation of a [...]

An in-depth study on "the Turkish drone industry" dated from July but only made public by the French defence ministry's [...]

Intelligence Online has learned that five French volunteers belonging to SOS Chrétiens d'Orient - a French NGO historically in agreement [...]

At odds with the West, Russia is looking for new allies. Military assistance, industrial and academic cooperation, currency and technology transfers plus other goodwill gestures: North Korea is emerging as a new partner of choice for Moscow, whose diplomats have been intensively courting their counterparts in Pyongyang since the spring of 2022. [...]

The Ministry of State Security (MSS or Guoanbu) thought it had all the cards in hand. After more than a year of debate, it had succeeded in getting plans to set up an international network of Chinese private security companies [...]

The deal was clinched during the visit of a Russian government delegation to Pyongyang from 17 to 20 November (IO, [...]

A Paris court is due to deliver its verdict on 7 March after the two-week trial of Bernard Squarcini, 68, and [...]

The government instability that followed the dissolution of France's National Assembly in June has prevented the adoption of a new [...]

The Vietnamese People's Army recently issued several invitations to tender to equip its specialised electronic warfare directorate, headed by General [...]

Washington/Dubai - Paul Manafort hunts fresh clients in EmiratesDonald Trump's former lawyer and campaign manager is exploring new markets. According [...]

As global strategic rivalries return to the fore - in Ukraine, Gaza, the Taiwan Straight and in Africa, where Russia is a force to be reckoned with - accumulating crises are influencing the spy-satellite power players: who observes what, who sets up where, who sows alliances with whom and, increasingly, who releases what data publicly.The upshot is that the targets selected for observation, the countries being courted, and the NGOs and broadcasters being brought into the loop all provide insight into the major space players' strategies and focal points. [...]

Several due diligence requests commissioned by Western investors are underway to assess the strategic Mykolaiv Alumina Plant in southern Ukraine, which has been under Ukrainian state control since February 2023.It produces produces aluminium oxide, or alumina, a raw material used in [...]

Former French prime minister Michel Barnier, whose 5 December resignation made him the shortest holder of that post since the [...]

Late last month, barzaniwatch.com rushed to report that the Iraqi Kurdistan region had hired a new consultant specialised in government [...]

Neo Space Group (NSG)'s purchase of Airbus Group's UP42 platform, as announced on 3 December, fills a very important political [...]

December is traditionally a good time to present reports, but the UK parliament's Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC) is conspicuously [...]